Morning Run: Record Black Friday, Trump MRI, Luigi Mangione Hearing, CA Mass Shooting,  and Zootopia 2 Fever

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hello everyone, and welcome to Morning Ron. It's Monday, December one.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ Holmes. Why are you so excited? I got a little extra in there on this Monday morning. What's that about?

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Speaker 1: We are in full holiday mode now. I love the month of December. Oh, it is exciting, It is festive, it is fun. Everyone's lights go up, their.

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Speaker 3: Trees go up.

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Speaker 2: Nice.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Music starts playing and die Hard is in the house NonStop.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's funny. I'm I don't think one. Two. There are three TVs in the house right now that Diehard is playing on and it won't stop. It's the best Christmas movie ever. I thought you were so excited because diet Cherry Coke is coming back.

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Speaker 1: And I know this is very exciting. I didn't know it was a thing that is going to be in our house very soon. Well really, yes, I love not out till next year. Well that's next month.

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Speaker 3: Really, next month, Okay, I'm counting down the days.

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Speaker 2: That's soon enough. But today, actually, Folks, is a monster of a day at airports. It was predicted that the two busiest days were Sunday and today. Yesterday was supposed to be the busiest air travel day for folks trying to get back, but today is the second busiest. So it's still a little hell in some of the airports.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Well, the weather at least here cleared up, but tomorrow is another story.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, kind of looking forward to that again. A little weather here in the New York area. Also, a lot of shopping is being done right now, but a lot of it was already done. People know Cyber Monday is coming, but folks didn't mess around. I thought Black Friday was about getting out. Apparently a lot of people's day in for Black Friday into it online.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, look, look, we went out on Black Friday, and there were a lot of other people who did also go out where we specifically went to. But there is something really nice about just sitting at the computer and getting it done, which I did some of yesterday.

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Speaker 2: And you were, along with a record number of people actually online Black Friday shopping eleven point eight billion dollars. Eleven point eight billion dollars in that weekend. Now six billion was on Turkey Day alone, so over the weekend that is the most that's ever been spent on Black Friday online shopping over weekend, but rolled it's still pales in comparison to what Cyber Monday is going to do. Really one day today, y'all are expected to spend fourteen point two billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: I have to tell you, we've been working this morning.

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Speaker 1: I did check out a couple websites and there are actual, real deals. The good news is we went out shopping and saw things. When you actually see today, there are some stores I am I am writing down. Yeah, they are really good deals, like Lululemon. I was surprised, like, don't you know your kids love and they're never on sale.

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Speaker 3: They're on sales today. All right, it's a real thing.

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Speaker 2: Well appreciate that I did not not I didn't plan on shopping, you know. Yeah, anyway, but twelve point this is all the fun stat twelve point five million dollars per minute we'll spend over the weekend by Americans every minute, twelve and a half million dollars in their shopping carts online.

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Speaker 3: Dang, it's funny.

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Speaker 1: I actually was buying things for the girls and then writing down how much I was spending on my notes app just because he does get to try and keep it all in check and not go overboard.

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Speaker 3: So that was my strategy.

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Speaker 2: That's a good tip. We folks, Hope you had a good holiday weekend. Hope you're safely back wherever you're going to be. And if you're traveling today, hope you have a good travel day out there. But always we appreciate you being here with us. Also, we'll be talking about on the run this morning. President Trump extends an invitation, the death toll from that Hong Kong apartment fire, jumps, a mass shooting at a kids party in California, and Luigi Mangioni has an important weekend Cork a landfall less hurricane season for the US, and Trump's MRIs in the news that's right.

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Speaker 1: Also joining us on the run this morning, Lane kivin Black Friday Shoppers, Christy Nome, the Union High School Bears, Nick Wilde and Judy Hoops.

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Speaker 2: You know those two yeah figures Zutopia. There's a character.

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Speaker 1: I have no idea who those I was like, I'm gonna just say this, but I don't even know.

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Speaker 3: What's coming out of my mouth. Who are those people?

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Speaker 2: She's not a Zoutopia fan.

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Speaker 3: But I am so in the minority.

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Speaker 2: She's my rom Burgundy. Folks. Just put it in front of us, She'll read it. Nick Wilde and Judy Hoops, who are they? Just keep reading?

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Speaker 3: This shows you how much I trust you.

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Speaker 2: No, you're a professional. You kept it rolling. Nobody ever would have known. And I didn't know their names either. I never would have known their names either, but I happened to be writing the story this morning. But hey, glad you all could be along for the run with us. We do have to start though, on this run out in California. Four people killed, another ten injured. This was a mass shooting on the holiday weekend and at all places, a family gathering that happened to be a kid's birthday party. This was in Stockton, California.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two year old's birthday party. And this is so sad. Four people were killed and I say people, and technically three were children, but in my opinion, all four were children. Eight, nine, fourteen, and twenty one. Those were the ages of the ones who were killed. That is just heartrending. A two year old's birthday party. And police say this wasn't just some random act of violence. They say they believe this was a targeted incident. However, it seems as though they have nowhere to even begin. They are literally begging members of the party, members of the public who may have seen something or know something, to please please let them know because the.

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Speaker 3: Suspect or suspects are still on the loose.

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Speaker 1: And just from what I read, it didn't seem as though police feel like they are on any strong path towards figuring out who is responsible for the deaths of three children, but four.

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Speaker 2: Young folks you said, or suspects as possible. They're saying that there's more than one shooter involved here. We'll keep an eye on that. Continuing on the run here now and it's important day and important week really in court for suspected United Healthcare killer Luigi Mangioni.

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Speaker 1: Yes, his attorneys are trying to get a whole bunch of evidence thrown out, really important stuff that we point to.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so when they got to.

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Speaker 1: Him in that McDonald's in Pennsylvania, the attorneys for Mangioni say that he was not read his rights initially when he spoke, and that they actually took his backpack without a search warrant went through it. What was inside that backpack his basically his manifesto, his red notebook that detailed all of what he was feeling and thinking and his plans and all of that. And certainly there was a gun in there as well, so the gun potentially used in that attack. So these are like the most important pieces of evidence that his attorneys are now trying to get thrown out. Is one year anniversary is December fourth, so it is this week, and so this is a very important hearing. The last time he had a hearing, he actually had terrorism charges thrown out. So his attorneys have been able to whittle away whose attorneys.

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Speaker 2: Yes, also Diddy's attorneys are the ones working with him, and they have already scored a couple of victories in some of these pre trial hearings.

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Speaker 1: So we will keep our eye on what happens in that courtroom today. And of course, this all surrounds the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. He was gunned down again a year ago in the middle of midtown Manhattan in front of that hotel as he was about to attend a United Healthcare meeting. And certainly, yeah, we had Mangioni waiting for him. Right in broad daylight there on that sidewalk, So we will keep our eye on that. But next up on the run, their coach is missing, but their team keeps on winning. Over the weekend, the Union High School Bears from Big Stone Gap, Virginia one their playoff game and are now thirteen and oh of.

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Speaker 2: Course this team has been making national even international headlines. Yes, so why are we following a Class two state champion and ship in Virginia of high school football? Because they's their coach. Travis Turner initially was missing, went missing two games ago, essentially, and they weren't telling us why police were looking for him in the first place, but there was a massive search effort. We did find out days later that in fact, he is being charged with ten counts ten felony accounts. Remind me again, Five were solicitation no using a computer to solicit a minor and the other or.

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Speaker 1: For child pornography charges possession of child pornography.

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Speaker 2: So he's wanted on those ten counts. He still has not been seen since November tenth, but they said he went into the woods only wearing no. Vember twenty What I say, No twentieth only carrying a firearm and wearing a.

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Speaker 3: Sweet sweatpants and sweatshirts.

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Speaker 1: And we know, obviously this is the Appalachian Mountains up in the Virginia. They have been sub freezing temperatures, windshills in the teen So this is not the type of environment you would expect somebody to be able to survive, truly with the clothing he had on, and there's been zero sightings of him despite all all of this massive search that's been underway.

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Speaker 2: We were proud and we were watching and rooting for this team that's been able to cobble together two wins and to stay undefeated and are now a game away from the state championship. So it's just a hell of us, you know they're going through it, and just to see them come together in the community rally around them as it's really turned into an inspiration in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: It certainly has next up on our run. This has been a tough story to follow throughout the weekend. The numbers keep rising. Right now at this recording, at least one hundred and forty six people have been confirmed killed and that massive apartment fire had happened in Hong Kong. The death toll has been climbing since the fire broke out last Wednesday, and unfortunately dozens are still missing.

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Speaker 3: They were quick to.

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Speaker 1: Charge folks though in this fire, thirteen people right now facing charges. The government there is saying that the netting that this company used with its scaffolding actually accelerated the fire. It caught fire and was not a retardant as it should have been, but actually fueled the fire that ripped through. It was like seven high rise buildings in this complex, but firefighters were and some of the among the dead were firefighters. They're on the scene trying to battle the blaze, but they say it's so dark in some of these recessed areas and dangerous. The buildings are still intact, but just trying to find the missing, the bodies of the missing right now is just an arduous and difficult task.

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Speaker 2: They have shut down this company. I think they had other up to thirty other projects and on calling they're working on all that. Construction has stopped, and this is again we see it differently. We talk about here in this country robes. Something like this happened, there's an investigation, it takes months, there's lawsuits, there's all kinds of this stuff. And this day were I think the day this happened, You're like.

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Speaker 3: They already have arrested people.

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Speaker 2: That's incredible. All right, Well, continuing on this run, now, President Trump has extended a White House invitation to the families. Now, those two National Guard members who were shot in DC. One is still fighting for his life in the hospital, Andrew Will twenty four years old, still listed as critical, and of course twenty year old Sarah Beckstrom, she did die of her injuries.

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Speaker 1: And the suspect involved in that shooting is a twenty nine year old Afghan national.

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Speaker 3: He's facing first degree murder charges.

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Speaker 1: And Christinome has said publicly now that they believe he may have been radicalized while he came here to the US, because initially he was somebody who was working with the government, helping the US government defeat the Taliban. That's why he was allowed to come over and then actually naturalized in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 3: But there are some really.

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Speaker 1: Damning emails that we now find from the social worker who was monitoring him, who was working with him and his family try to acclimate here in the United States.

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Speaker 2: And this is how it always goes out there. Later somebody was trying to warn about somebody's behavior and these are these are tough to hear. This dude was trugled.

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Speaker 1: Yes, so she even said and put this in her memo in her emails. World relief volunteers are trying to patch things for that family. But I think the father, and this is the twenty nine year old Afghan national responsible for the shooting, has mental health issues that are not addressed, and he won't talk to anyone. She went on to say he's not been functional as a person, father and provider since March of last year, so that was twenty twenty three. She also said he spends most of his time for weeks on end in his darkened bedroom, not speaking to anyone, not even his wife an older kid. So here was someone who is ringing the bell, raising the alarm bells and saying, this man needs to be there, needs to be an intervention of some sort, and unfortunately it looks like nothing happened.

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Speaker 3: And now we see the result, all right.

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Speaker 2: Continuing next on the run now with President Trump saying he's going to release his MRI results, not just voluntarily. Here, I guess he was got a little nudgeing from the Minnesota Governor Tim Wolts.

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Speaker 1: He got called out by Tim Walls. Well, Tim Walts had a reason because he was the recipient of President Trump in one of his late night truth social rants, referring to Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota, by the R word we won't say it here. So Walts's response on Twitter was released your MRI results. I thought that was maybe a classy way to say your head needs to get checked. So yes, on Meet the Press, the governor said that he believed President Trump was fading physically.

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Speaker 3: No, that's a shot across the bow right there.

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Speaker 1: And yes, Trump did have a second annual physical in October.

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Speaker 3: That raised some eyebrows.

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Speaker 1: People were questioning why he needed a second physical when it's an annual physical.

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Speaker 2: What answer did we don't? They just said, yeah, I don't think they were special.

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Speaker 1: They really didn't give any explanation. Trump did say, hey, I don't know what part of my body had the MRI scam, but it wasn't my brain because it was perfect because I took by copy kid tests and they were perfect, so there would be no reason for them to scan my brain. I will say, having had many MRIs in my life, I've had a brain one I've had a breast one. You kind of know what body part because you either go in halfway or all the way. You do have an idea if halfway are all the way, yes, depend because they don't want to expose your body. So if you only have your brain, you go in a little bit. If you like when I had, he would know so you could God my heart, I've had my breast.

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Speaker 2: I'm saying, if you're going in to get your heart or breast, you still have to your brain. If your head has to go.

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Speaker 3: In, yes, So he can't say he yes.

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Speaker 2: So, but they can be specific and scan just the chest and not the head. So it's possible he did not have his brain check correct. It is possible, but he said he always brags about his score. Like I think about Sabine twelve years old. Every time she aces a test at school, she gruns own check it out. I haste, that's what he sounds me.

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Speaker 1: And then I think I think he said something total trump uh in Trump fashion, saying you know I aced or I got a perfect score, which is something you couldn't do.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us on this Monday run run. When we come back. We had something happen in this hurricane season we haven't seen in quite a while. Also, Lane Kiffin woo that bridge is on fire out of Oxford right now. Also a record at the box office over the weekend. And it's time to get rich, y'all. Continuing on this Monday Morning run with the twenty twenty five Atlantic hurricane season. It has officially ended and with no hurricanes making landfall in the US. First time we've seen this in twenty fifteen Rhodes. This threw me because it seemed like there were such powerful hurricanes that we were covering. I guess Melissa was a Cat five hit Jamaica, big deal, But we did not have one that made landfall in the USA.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we only got tropical Storm Chantal. And look, I say only God, thank goodness.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can recall I was a hurricane chaser for quite some time. It just was one hurricane after the other. So I understand. The concern probably is you've got the National Weather Service, the Hurricane Center always issuing these dire This is going to be the worst hurricane season, yet people prepare for the worst. We're talking about global warming when you have a year like this, Yes, it's amazing thing. God, we didn't have landfall, but it does make people question.

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Speaker 2: See, and you're right. So this is why I want to get this line in here. Yes, we did not have one make landfall. However, it was a scary Atlantic hurricane season because they were three Category fives. That's not normal. We've only the most we've seen in the season is four. That's an extraordinary year. So to get three cat fives, they say, is a big deal. They didn't hit us, but that won't make the headline as much.

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Speaker 1: As the other correct, So I guess the point is that they it was still a very active hurricane season, and in fact, a very powerful hurricane season.

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Speaker 3: We just literally got lucky, all right.

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Speaker 1: So the biggest drama of the college football season is thank you over. Lane Kiffin, who is the coach of the sixth ranked eleven and one Ole Miss Rebels, has now been hired as the new coach at LSU in the middle of a winning season.

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Speaker 2: Sweetheart, he had this team has a chance to win a national championship and he's not going to coach them. Folks, have you been watching this? Yes, ole Miss Lane Kiffin has built this program up over the past several years and they are fantastic. However, because he's so great and what he did there, everybody wants him. Everybody wants to hire him. We get it. Well, ole Miss gave him a deadline of this weekend. He had to decide between them and LSU, and he picked LSU and ole Miss is not going to allow him to coach in the college football playoffs.

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Speaker 1: When you give an ultimatum, you have to be prepared for the answer you didn't want to get.

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Speaker 2: Swear it's it, he said the team. His team personally requested from the ole Miss administration, please let him coach us in the college football playoff.

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Speaker 1: This is nope, so disruptive the fans if they do not win. Now, can you even imagine?

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Speaker 2: It's a mess everywhere? This is I mean, you do what you gotta do. Lane Kiffin gonna get a thirteen million dollar salary. It's a big deal. LSU's got the pockets and they are used to winning. Three out of their last four coaches won a national championship. The only one who didn't was a guy that just fires. So there is an expectation. This is big time, and we get it. But for those kids' ropes to go eleven and one at Ole. Miss, this isn't some Alabama program.

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Speaker 3: You went with Alabama?

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Speaker 2: But well, fine, George has only been good in the reason years. My point I is, you get what I'm saying. Yes, but what he's done there, they they won't let him coach. Ah, well that would be a mess anyway though.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we will keep our eye on all of that. And next up on the run, A lot of people keeping their eye on the weekend box office because I was.

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Speaker 3: Shocked by this, Zutopia two.

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Speaker 1: Setting records five hundred and fifty six million dollars over the Thanksgiving weekend. That is the biggest worldwide opening ever for an animated film. I never even saw Zutopia one. But funny enough, it's really good. Analise nineteen years old, she tells us, and I can't get her to go to a movie with us for to save my life. She's like, go into the movie tonight with my friends again. Nineteen years old? What she's seeing? Analise?

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Speaker 3: Zutopia two?

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Speaker 2: Scratch my heads? I was confused, so a child, Well, the first one first came out. I'm sure it's stuck with it, but yeah, it's it did gang half a billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Wow, and Wiki two not too shabby either, sixty three million, although it feels like it's in the shadows of that other larger number.

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Speaker 2: Well that five hundred fifty six million, that's not quite what you can win to night's Powerball drawing seven hundred and forty million. Time to get involved. Now, to get involved is up to seven hundred and forty million. It's happening tonight. If you take the cash payout, that is three hundred and forty six million dollars. Good luck to you volks in Texas, Tennessee, Which Washington, Florida.

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Speaker 3: You name it, all the tax free states, So y'all are going.

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Speaker 2: To get a bigger payout. But yes, that drawing is tonight. But of course thought we would mentioned it. Oh my goodness, Rose almost freaked out again. I thought I forgot our quote of the day. I'm looking around, like, oh my god, where is it.

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Speaker 1: So we write scripts in the computer and we kind of have it loose. But it's funny when I I was always like, I think that was one of the first things I put in. Every time I look, you have no quote of the day, And I'm just crossing my fingers that you got it in your head somewhere.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I got it today. Something we want you to take with you and for you to consider it is our quote of the day, and it is people don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are.

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Speaker 3: See. I don't agree with that. I absolutely think not everyone and most people learn. But you can change. You can change.

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Speaker 1: You can change your behavior, and you can open your mind, and you can realize and recognize that your way of doing things might not be the best way.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm still on board with quote now. I think a lot of people would be that people do not change. I think who they are. You can change some of your behavior, and in doing so, I think you end up masking potentially who you really are through your behavior, even though at your core you have not changed. But to your point, changing behavior, at least to the rest of the world, looks like this person has changed.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I have changed so much of what I thought and what I believe. I think that that feels very hopeless to think that how you're born and the habits you've created early on in life are cemented and you cannot break free from them. I think it takes a lot of work, and I think it takes a lot of commitment and you have to stay with it.

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Speaker 3: But I just so disagree with that.

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Speaker 2: Well, folks, I'm sure plenty of you might feel the way she feels, and plenty of you out there might also have said at least once a week man, people just don't change. You ain't gonna change. People don't change. We've heard it all the time, but the quote from author Courtney Summers, people don't change. They just get better at hiding who they really are. And with that, folks, always appreciate your brunning with us. I'm TJ.

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Speaker 3: Warms and I'm Amy Rovok. We will run with you soon.