April 3, 2026
Morning Run: Tiger Talking Trump, Lively Baldoni Case, Astronauts Update, Shutdown Continues, Trump Fires Bondi, Hegseth Fires Army General and T-Rex Leather Purse
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Ron. It's Friday, April third. I made me robox No.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes and on this Friday, off the top, the thing we would encourage you to do this weekend's dance with a stranger.
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Speaker 1: I was like, what are we telling you dance.
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Speaker 2: With a stranger? You always say these are long weeks. There are sometimes depressing weeks when you look at the news and we're in it every day, and we just started hearing roads are like, ah, I'm so uninspired. And we had a great song playing, and really the lyrics are, dance with a stranger, look around the room, lock eyes with somebody you don't know, go over, say how you doing, listen to the answer, and commiserate. It's just a it should be our national theme song. Just dance with a stranger. You just get to know each other better. I'm gonna move this morning. It just I'm over all the ugliness in the world. There's been a lot lately.
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Speaker 1: You look at the headlines and they can get you down. So I knew we were literally just having this conversation just to sometimes you just have to stop pause. Look around you. You will find blessings. You will find reasons to be grateful, You will find reasons to be inspired that there is good in the world.
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Speaker 2: You're right. You know what saw a story this morning? Two year old kid ringing the bell beat cancer. God.
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Speaker 1: We were transplanting beautiful story.
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Speaker 2: That was a great story. So let's start with that. But hello to you all. On this Friday, we have a very important, very busy, very breaking news even in a lot of ways. Morning run. This morning, we're about to take this run with you all after we just came back from a quick two mile run here in New York. The weather's getting a little better, so we're getting a chance to make these runs before we actually do news.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's not so cold. It was nice and foggy. The sun was just rising. It was very Stephen.
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Speaker 2: Kingey, Okay, so you'll forgive me if you hear mine. I'm actually still wearing my running jacket. It's a little loud.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you kept those sweaty clothes on. I had to take Oh my gosh, I was dying when I walked into this steamy apartment.
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Speaker 2: Wow, So folks, enjoy this smelly version of the morning, and we're going to start on the run this morning. I'm going to give you the latest with the shutdown. Here's the latest. It's still happening, and we don't know when it's going to end. Back to you ropes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you could just do that every single day and nothing will have changed. Yes, Trump is though, going to sign in order to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security employees, all of them, not just TSA officers, that they will get paychecks because this shutdown has no end in sight. Because now Republicans in the House are not going along with the Senate version like we thought they would, so back to square one.
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Speaker 2: We actually do not know. We know all of them are still gone, and I expected back to April thirteenth, so at least until that long. With the update is there is not much of one. Thing's have taken a little bit of a step backwards. Continuing here on the run, President Trump issued another strongly worded they get specific threat to ARAN overnight.
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Speaker 1: That is so well worded. Babe. All right, So here is what he said on truth social Our military, the greatest and most powerful by far anywhere in the world, hasn't even started destroying what's left in Iran bridges. Next, then electric power plants. Exclamation point. New regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done fast. Exclamation This is.
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Speaker 2: The reasonable regime that should go about that now, the reasonable regime, Yeah, the.
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Speaker 1: Third one that they're now talking to, right, that cannot be named.
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Speaker 2: Yes, So his words, yes, we've heard this from the president. This was in an overnight truth social post. But his words that post and the speech this week have done little to help with the price of oil or the price of gas. Those are going in the wrong direction. Oil price is shot up again yesterday in a concerning way. US crude oil was up twelve percent yesterday, the highest one day jump we've seen in six years, oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: And international crude prices of oil also up eight percent. And you know what that all translates to. That translates to all of us paying a lot more for gas. The average price of gas in this country just keeps on echine up each and every day. We're now at four oh nine a gallon.
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Speaker 2: And nobody likes know at all, nobody likes to hear from somebody I told you so, right, But we told you so about this next one. Anybody could see this coming. Yes, first it was Jet Blue. Now United, Yes, United Airlines announced it too, going to increase checked bag feests.
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Speaker 1: Now they did not specifically say why. However, the mood is widely The move is widely seen as a way to offset those increased fuel costs that we just have been mentioning. So this applies to tickets purchased starting today. The price is going up ten dollars per bag. I was trying to think why they went this route instead of the price of tickets. But I guess most of the most immediate flights tickets have already been sold. Correct.
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Speaker 2: But when you look at tickets, somebody might You might go on there and look at a ticket price and go ooh, that one's too high. That was too high. You see a cheaper one, you buy the ticket. Then you get to the airport and you go, what the hell, there's a bagage. They've already got.
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Speaker 1: Your ticket, right, So that's so true.
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Speaker 2: That's the way I go about it. Some of these, if you go with three check bags, it goes from one hundred and fifty bucks to two hundred bucks. But this is a ten dollars increase on the others.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I found out the hard way when getting my daughter across the country to college, that if you have a over well, what is it the heaviest over fifty pounds a bag, it's one hundred dollars for the first checked bag.
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Speaker 2: That's all, y'all, y'all who.
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Speaker 1: Learn that the hard way?
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Speaker 2: I continue on the run here on this Friday morning. It seems like a weird time robe to fire the guy in charge of the army, But that's exactly what Pete heck Seth has done.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Army Chief of Staff General Randy George has been forced into early retirement that is effective immediately.
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Speaker 1: And according to a lot of folks who cover the Pentagon, they say the folks behind this general are extremely upset at this decision. This is not going overwhell with a lot of folks. The Pentagon did thank him for his service in his statement, but also said it was time for a change of leadership at the Army. He has been an Army chief of staff since twenty twenty three. He served under President Biden. So yes, it is time to say goodbye, apparently, but as you point out, a strange time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, usually four year terms, so he had a couple more year or at least so it was expected to go through next year. At least. They also should mention he got rid of two other top generals yesterday. One of them was the head of the Chaplains. Wow, the general who was in charge of the Chaplains. A lot of talk lately about Chaplains and Christianity in our in our military. Continue on the run here now. President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday. This news was everywhere, replacing her with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche butt Robes. It was interesting waiting to hear from her and curious what we were going to here. And I guess this didn't surprise you. I was curious she was going to scorch the earth.
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Speaker 1: No, because she was the person who was charged with scorching the earth for folks who had done just what she could have done to President Trump. It doesn't end well. So yes. She issued a statement late yesterday saying she'd be working to ensure a smooth transition over the next month and said she will then be quote moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about. And where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this administration.
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Speaker 2: He mentioned that vague job as well, don't know what it is, and she used almost exact same language. So I'm curious to see how this works out.
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Speaker 1: At least they're on the same page.
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Speaker 2: I went on to say that leading President Trump's historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure than the honor of a lifetime all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, The Sheriff's Department released bodycam footage of officers approaching and eventually arresting Tiger Woods after his suv accident last week. But there is something of note. You can see Tiger Woods walking back. He was off in the woods towards the officer saying thank you so much. All right, you got it bye.
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Speaker 2: So who was he talking to is the question? So in the video, the officer asked him to stay close to the scene. Tiger responds to him saying, yeah, I was just talking with the president. So of course Tiger Woods has been seen golfing with the President, and I think they are considered friends. And also Woods is dating Vanessa Trump, the former wife of Donald Trump Junior.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, and the President also spoke of woods crash last week when he was talking with reporters. He didn't say they're just friends. He went further than that. He said, I feel so bad. He got some difficulty. There was an accident, and that's all I know. A very close friend of mine. He's an amazing person and an amazing man, but some difficulty. I don't want to talk about it, all right.
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Speaker 2: Well, the bodyhand video goes on to show Woods taking a field sobriety test. He's been charged with d UI after refusing a urine test. Judge has granted him permission, though, to travel out of the country to seek treatment. This was a one vehicle I say one vehicle, only one two vehicles were involved, but the other one he just kind of clips. So it's not that issue. I see right. That guy's going he's lawyered up.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that isn't shocking. No one was injured, we should point out. But what we hear Tiger Wood saying is that he looked down at his cell phone. He said he was changing his radio station. But he is pleaded not guilty, so there is a lot more to come. What, Yeah, that's what he said. He said he was changing radio stations and had been looking down at his phone. That's what he told the officers while he was passing a truck.
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Speaker 2: This is a good time to switch.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't like this song right right when I'm passing a truck, when I've got two Yes pills in my pocket, you need.
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Speaker 2: Some good passing music.
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Speaker 1: Ooh jeezus, alrighty. Next up on the Run, a judge threw out most of the claims actress Blake Lively made against actor director Justin Beldoni inter lawsuit that seemed to generate constant headlines that were constantly confusing us, so much so that we barely covered it because it was just so overwhelming. But maybe this will simplify things. Ten out of thirteen claims the judge threw out, including some of the most damning accusations of sexual harassment.
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Speaker 2: Well, I threw my hands. I really I don't fully understand what happened here. Who did this book? It ends with us? Who wrote Colleen Hoover A big deal?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yes, I read all of them.
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Speaker 2: They're amazing movie they made, made three hundred and fifty million. It's a shame, it is, But this is attached to this movie. The judge was not making much of a judgment on the merits of the harassment claims. Instead, he actually determined that Blake Lively didn't have the right to bring them in the first place because of certain legal requirements, jurisdiction and all kinds of other stuff. So all that stuff's that. It's going to move forward with breach of contract and retaliation claims. Still they still have this trial set for May eighth. The her attorney said they still look forward to going to court. It's just this was in a mess, and you know what, more so than anything, it gave an insight into how Hollywood sometimes works, with folks behind the scenes planting stories, going after each other.
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Speaker 1: It was ugly, ugly, yes, and it's gonna be messy as hell in that court whom you know, all eyes are going to be on that and both sides, as you pointed out, said they cannot wait to have their day in court. So this is going to be something, all right. Next up on the run, their email was briefly down, the toilet was on the fritz, windows apparently needed cleaning, and a computer wasn't working. Just a day in the life of astronauts in outer space.
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Speaker 2: Or the Robot Holmes House, exactly all of us.
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Speaker 1: They're just like us, astronauts.
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Speaker 2: These are the latest updates we're getting from the Artemis to mission. This is kind of cool. We're finding out about lot the technical stuff about the mission, but it is cool to see how they're living up there. But yesterday, the four astronauts successfully conducted the last major step that set the Orion spacecraft on its trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. It's called the translunar injection burn. For those of you who don't understand, just when to get you caught up. You know, for us on the inside, we understand this, but NASA everybody understood. That was sarcasm. R. Yes, I no, I never heard of that before. NAS officials say it was flawless, and this is always cool to hear. They had left the Earth's orbit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what translunar injection burn. It like basically propels you out of the Earth's orbit. Yes, I had to look that up. The astronauts had a video conference with reporters late last night. I thought this was interesting. First and foremost, they gave a shot out to their families. They said at that point, this was around eleven pm last night. They had not yet gone to speak with their loved ones yet. I imagine you are just so anxious to hear from your loved one when they've blasted off to space and you don't get to text them or say hey, how to go? Like nothing right. They also just talked about the beauty, and some of them have seen it before, but they say they were still amazed at how beautiful the entire Earth looked globe, the globe looked from pole to pole. They said they could see the northern lights from the outer space, Like how cool is that? But anyway, they're going, it's gonna take them about four days to get to the moon, so we're expecting to get some images of the moon come monday.
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Speaker 2: That's amazing that we can get all this, that we can communicate the way we are, and you know they'll be doing interviews and all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome.
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Speaker 2: We can't even get a signal with the bottom of home Goods over here. That's true, it's Marshall's that's it all right, stay with us here on this Friday morning run when we come back. I don't really understand there is a one sentence Truth Social post from the President last night that has to do with one of the biggest stars in music and plastic surgery. Will try to explain. Also, Women's Final four coming up tonight. There will be a rematch of last year's final. Also, there's a new baby born. We don't know where the baby was born, what the baby's name is, and how much the baby waits. But congratulations and the silliest story about purses that I have ever ever heard. For some reason, Robes loves him. We continue on this Friday morning run nine o'clock at night nine twenty last night, the President of the United States. Can you imagine the things that are coming at him dealing with war? The time differences right and people are waking up on one side of the world dealing with war. It's constant robes for this guy. But at nine twenty one last night, he made time to make a statement that does he feel is important?
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Speaker 1: Okay? Can anyone else try to figure the us out? This is what the President put on Truth Social. Is Bruce Springsteen going to sue his plastic surgeon? Question mark?
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Speaker 2: That's the whole post? Did I miss something? I know he's upset. Bruce Springsteen has been outspoken about the president, and he's.
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Speaker 1: Against written some songs about Minneapolis. He's on a tour.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what did I miss about the plastic surgeon.
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Speaker 1: He's just trying to make him embarrassed, Yes, just trying to find something he can say, You're a fool, You're an idiot. Just trying to make fun of him and get a rise out of him.
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Speaker 2: I guess at nine to twenty last night, he just sends an insult to Bruce Springsteen via truth Social Oh my goodness, Yes, he was tweeting some other stuff as well. I didn't understand that is Bruce Springsteen known for something about his face? Is it a thing?
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Speaker 1: I think he might have done some tweaking. Tweaking, some tweaking. You know, when men tweak, it's it seems a little bit even more obvious sometimes than even when women tweak. But yes, wow, okay, might have done some tweaking.
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Speaker 2: All right, I could do you on the run here now. Yes. Final four underway for the men and women this weekend. Women are up first. They'll have the semifinals tonight. The championship will be on Sunday. Then the men will have their semi finals. Saturday night, and the championship will be on Monday. But tonight Yukon versus South Carolina at seven o'clock rematch of the twenty twenty five National Championship that Yukon won, and then Texas USLA would be playing tonight at nine thirty. Again a reminder, all number one seeds do not miss this final four. These are the absolute best teams, best coaches, best players in the country.
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Speaker 1: So I know what we're doing tonight, all right. Next up on the run, it's a girl. Congratulations to Josh Allen and Hailey Steinfeld, who welcomed their first child this week. Is TJ t's going to the Rake? And that's all we got, folks, because we don't know the name, the wait, the birthday, nothing. We just know that the baby exists and who their parents are.
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Speaker 2: We had a baby.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh we know it's a girl. We do know it's a girl.
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Speaker 2: That's very Congrats to them. I didn't I couldn't keep up. They are married. She announced the pregnancy before they got married, or I can't. But they are officially married now, aren't.
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Speaker 1: They not deny that? I don't think I think they are.
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Speaker 2: Were congratts they're a sweet cute.
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Speaker 1: I like that they are cute.
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Speaker 2: I like them a lot. Last leg of the run here scientists and the designers are claiming to have created robes. What this is the purse we need? Really, Prada louis not making enough for you. You need a t rex purse. They have made a purse robes and please explain to me how do you make a leather purse? And that leather is Toronto Sur's rex leather.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so apparently scientists were able to take fragments of fossilized t rex collagen and from that develop lab grown what they're calling t rex leather. So right now, the leather that they developed is one of a kind. It's in a collector's purse. It's on display at Amsterdam's Art Zoo Museum.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's going to be auctioned off starting at half a million dollars. I'm asking, though, does anybody have a problem with this?
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Speaker 1: So no, In fact, they're actually trying to say. This company and three other companies announced as well that they are developing lab grown t rex leather as well, so that they can produce this for the masses. But what they're trying to do is say hey, we don't have to use animal leather to have quality, designer luxury products. That this can be just as cool and special and be from basically fossilized cells of a t rex, where we can create a leather like product that would basically supplant actually using real leathers. So a lot of people who are into vegan leather and don't want to actually consume or have leather products. This is an alternative expensive though.
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Speaker 2: Because it's extinct, it's not the same. Because the animal doesn't exist anymore, we can better about it.
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Speaker 1: Correct well, and it's not actually you're not using an animal carcass. You're creating a lab grown version of the leather. And some people are saying.
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Speaker 2: This is BS so it's not actually from a t rex.
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Speaker 1: Well it is, they are. I don't know how science, I'm not a scientist, but somehow if you can somehow replicate fossilized collagen, and some people say, give me a break, this is a really ridiculous marketing campaign to try and sell a product you're claiming as luxury.
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Speaker 2: Who's that group?
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Speaker 1: I would like to jump, But it is cool if you look up the pictures like the way they have it displayed under this t rex. Yeah it's so cool.
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Speaker 2: Well look I typed in TX bag.
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Speaker 1: Okay, there are some knockoffs, but there is the special one in Amsterdam that will go to a lucky person who has a ton of money. All right, on this Friday, we have our quote of the day. You know what, you were actually looking for some inspiration and I like this because it gives you a daily step by step. Here's the quote of the day. Just for today. Be kind to yourself, no boy, be patient with those you love, be present in all that you do, and then tomorrow begin again. But I like the idea you take it one day at a time, one step at a time. Don't get overwhelmed. But what are we going to do? Where are we going? What's happening next? Right now? Just remember to be kind to yourself. You don't remember to do that. Lot of folks don't remember. Just be kind to yourself, and then be patient with those you love, and be present in all that you do. That is going to help. Keep in mind those three steps for today, and then do it again tomorrow. It's a good all right. I love that, And with that, everyone, Happy Friday. I'm Amy Roeboch, thank you for running with us, and.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. Talk sim
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Ron. It's Friday, April third. I made me robox No.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes and on this Friday, off the top, the thing we would encourage you to do this weekend's dance with a stranger.
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Speaker 1: I was like, what are we telling you dance.
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Speaker 2: With a stranger? You always say these are long weeks. There are sometimes depressing weeks when you look at the news and we're in it every day, and we just started hearing roads are like, ah, I'm so uninspired. And we had a great song playing, and really the lyrics are, dance with a stranger, look around the room, lock eyes with somebody you don't know, go over, say how you doing, listen to the answer, and commiserate. It's just a it should be our national theme song. Just dance with a stranger. You just get to know each other better. I'm gonna move this morning. It just I'm over all the ugliness in the world. There's been a lot lately.
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Speaker 1: You look at the headlines and they can get you down. So I knew we were literally just having this conversation just to sometimes you just have to stop pause. Look around you. You will find blessings. You will find reasons to be grateful, You will find reasons to be inspired that there is good in the world.
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Speaker 2: You're right. You know what saw a story this morning? Two year old kid ringing the bell beat cancer. God.
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Speaker 1: We were transplanting beautiful story.
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Speaker 2: That was a great story. So let's start with that. But hello to you all. On this Friday, we have a very important, very busy, very breaking news even in a lot of ways. Morning run. This morning, we're about to take this run with you all after we just came back from a quick two mile run here in New York. The weather's getting a little better, so we're getting a chance to make these runs before we actually do news.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's not so cold. It was nice and foggy. The sun was just rising. It was very Stephen.
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Speaker 2: Kingey, Okay, so you'll forgive me if you hear mine. I'm actually still wearing my running jacket. It's a little loud.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you kept those sweaty clothes on. I had to take Oh my gosh, I was dying when I walked into this steamy apartment.
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Speaker 2: Wow, So folks, enjoy this smelly version of the morning, and we're going to start on the run this morning. I'm going to give you the latest with the shutdown. Here's the latest. It's still happening, and we don't know when it's going to end. Back to you ropes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you could just do that every single day and nothing will have changed. Yes, Trump is though, going to sign in order to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security employees, all of them, not just TSA officers, that they will get paychecks because this shutdown has no end in sight. Because now Republicans in the House are not going along with the Senate version like we thought they would, so back to square one.
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Speaker 2: We actually do not know. We know all of them are still gone, and I expected back to April thirteenth, so at least until that long. With the update is there is not much of one. Thing's have taken a little bit of a step backwards. Continuing here on the run, President Trump issued another strongly worded they get specific threat to ARAN overnight.
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Speaker 1: That is so well worded. Babe. All right, So here is what he said on truth social Our military, the greatest and most powerful by far anywhere in the world, hasn't even started destroying what's left in Iran bridges. Next, then electric power plants. Exclamation point. New regime leadership knows what has to be done, and has to be done fast. Exclamation This is.
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Speaker 2: The reasonable regime that should go about that now, the reasonable regime, Yeah, the.
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Speaker 1: Third one that they're now talking to, right, that cannot be named.
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Speaker 2: Yes, So his words, yes, we've heard this from the president. This was in an overnight truth social post. But his words that post and the speech this week have done little to help with the price of oil or the price of gas. Those are going in the wrong direction. Oil price is shot up again yesterday in a concerning way. US crude oil was up twelve percent yesterday, the highest one day jump we've seen in six years, oh my goodness.
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Speaker 1: And international crude prices of oil also up eight percent. And you know what that all translates to. That translates to all of us paying a lot more for gas. The average price of gas in this country just keeps on echine up each and every day. We're now at four oh nine a gallon.
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Speaker 2: And nobody likes know at all, nobody likes to hear from somebody I told you so, right, But we told you so about this next one. Anybody could see this coming. Yes, first it was Jet Blue. Now United, Yes, United Airlines announced it too, going to increase checked bag feests.
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Speaker 1: Now they did not specifically say why. However, the mood is widely The move is widely seen as a way to offset those increased fuel costs that we just have been mentioning. So this applies to tickets purchased starting today. The price is going up ten dollars per bag. I was trying to think why they went this route instead of the price of tickets. But I guess most of the most immediate flights tickets have already been sold. Correct.
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Speaker 2: But when you look at tickets, somebody might You might go on there and look at a ticket price and go ooh, that one's too high. That was too high. You see a cheaper one, you buy the ticket. Then you get to the airport and you go, what the hell, there's a bagage. They've already got.
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Speaker 1: Your ticket, right, So that's so true.
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Speaker 2: That's the way I go about it. Some of these, if you go with three check bags, it goes from one hundred and fifty bucks to two hundred bucks. But this is a ten dollars increase on the others.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then I found out the hard way when getting my daughter across the country to college, that if you have a over well, what is it the heaviest over fifty pounds a bag, it's one hundred dollars for the first checked bag.
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Speaker 2: That's all, y'all, y'all who.
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Speaker 1: Learn that the hard way?
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Speaker 2: I continue on the run here on this Friday morning. It seems like a weird time robe to fire the guy in charge of the army, But that's exactly what Pete heck Seth has done.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Army Chief of Staff General Randy George has been forced into early retirement that is effective immediately.
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Speaker 1: And according to a lot of folks who cover the Pentagon, they say the folks behind this general are extremely upset at this decision. This is not going overwhell with a lot of folks. The Pentagon did thank him for his service in his statement, but also said it was time for a change of leadership at the Army. He has been an Army chief of staff since twenty twenty three. He served under President Biden. So yes, it is time to say goodbye, apparently, but as you point out, a strange time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, usually four year terms, so he had a couple more year or at least so it was expected to go through next year. At least. They also should mention he got rid of two other top generals yesterday. One of them was the head of the Chaplains. Wow, the general who was in charge of the Chaplains. A lot of talk lately about Chaplains and Christianity in our in our military. Continue on the run here now. President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday. This news was everywhere, replacing her with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche butt Robes. It was interesting waiting to hear from her and curious what we were going to here. And I guess this didn't surprise you. I was curious she was going to scorch the earth.
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Speaker 1: No, because she was the person who was charged with scorching the earth for folks who had done just what she could have done to President Trump. It doesn't end well. So yes. She issued a statement late yesterday saying she'd be working to ensure a smooth transition over the next month and said she will then be quote moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about. And where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this administration.
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Speaker 2: He mentioned that vague job as well, don't know what it is, and she used almost exact same language. So I'm curious to see how this works out.
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Speaker 1: At least they're on the same page.
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Speaker 2: I went on to say that leading President Trump's historic and highly successful efforts to make America safer and more secure than the honor of a lifetime all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, The Sheriff's Department released bodycam footage of officers approaching and eventually arresting Tiger Woods after his suv accident last week. But there is something of note. You can see Tiger Woods walking back. He was off in the woods towards the officer saying thank you so much. All right, you got it bye.
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Speaker 2: So who was he talking to is the question? So in the video, the officer asked him to stay close to the scene. Tiger responds to him saying, yeah, I was just talking with the president. So of course Tiger Woods has been seen golfing with the President, and I think they are considered friends. And also Woods is dating Vanessa Trump, the former wife of Donald Trump Junior.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, and the President also spoke of woods crash last week when he was talking with reporters. He didn't say they're just friends. He went further than that. He said, I feel so bad. He got some difficulty. There was an accident, and that's all I know. A very close friend of mine. He's an amazing person and an amazing man, but some difficulty. I don't want to talk about it, all right.
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Speaker 2: Well, the bodyhand video goes on to show Woods taking a field sobriety test. He's been charged with d UI after refusing a urine test. Judge has granted him permission, though, to travel out of the country to seek treatment. This was a one vehicle I say one vehicle, only one two vehicles were involved, but the other one he just kind of clips. So it's not that issue. I see right. That guy's going he's lawyered up.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that isn't shocking. No one was injured, we should point out. But what we hear Tiger Wood saying is that he looked down at his cell phone. He said he was changing his radio station. But he is pleaded not guilty, so there is a lot more to come. What, Yeah, that's what he said. He said he was changing radio stations and had been looking down at his phone. That's what he told the officers while he was passing a truck.
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Speaker 2: This is a good time to switch.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't like this song right right when I'm passing a truck, when I've got two Yes pills in my pocket, you need.
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Speaker 2: Some good passing music.
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Speaker 1: Ooh jeezus, alrighty. Next up on the Run, a judge threw out most of the claims actress Blake Lively made against actor director Justin Beldoni inter lawsuit that seemed to generate constant headlines that were constantly confusing us, so much so that we barely covered it because it was just so overwhelming. But maybe this will simplify things. Ten out of thirteen claims the judge threw out, including some of the most damning accusations of sexual harassment.
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Speaker 2: Well, I threw my hands. I really I don't fully understand what happened here. Who did this book? It ends with us? Who wrote Colleen Hoover A big deal?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Yes, I read all of them.
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Speaker 2: They're amazing movie they made, made three hundred and fifty million. It's a shame, it is, But this is attached to this movie. The judge was not making much of a judgment on the merits of the harassment claims. Instead, he actually determined that Blake Lively didn't have the right to bring them in the first place because of certain legal requirements, jurisdiction and all kinds of other stuff. So all that stuff's that. It's going to move forward with breach of contract and retaliation claims. Still they still have this trial set for May eighth. The her attorney said they still look forward to going to court. It's just this was in a mess, and you know what, more so than anything, it gave an insight into how Hollywood sometimes works, with folks behind the scenes planting stories, going after each other.
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Speaker 1: It was ugly, ugly, yes, and it's gonna be messy as hell in that court whom you know, all eyes are going to be on that and both sides, as you pointed out, said they cannot wait to have their day in court. So this is going to be something, all right. Next up on the run, their email was briefly down, the toilet was on the fritz, windows apparently needed cleaning, and a computer wasn't working. Just a day in the life of astronauts in outer space.
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Speaker 2: Or the Robot Holmes House, exactly all of us.
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Speaker 1: They're just like us, astronauts.
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Speaker 2: These are the latest updates we're getting from the Artemis to mission. This is kind of cool. We're finding out about lot the technical stuff about the mission, but it is cool to see how they're living up there. But yesterday, the four astronauts successfully conducted the last major step that set the Orion spacecraft on its trajectory around the Moon and back to Earth. It's called the translunar injection burn. For those of you who don't understand, just when to get you caught up. You know, for us on the inside, we understand this, but NASA everybody understood. That was sarcasm. R. Yes, I no, I never heard of that before. NAS officials say it was flawless, and this is always cool to hear. They had left the Earth's orbit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what translunar injection burn. It like basically propels you out of the Earth's orbit. Yes, I had to look that up. The astronauts had a video conference with reporters late last night. I thought this was interesting. First and foremost, they gave a shot out to their families. They said at that point, this was around eleven pm last night. They had not yet gone to speak with their loved ones yet. I imagine you are just so anxious to hear from your loved one when they've blasted off to space and you don't get to text them or say hey, how to go? Like nothing right. They also just talked about the beauty, and some of them have seen it before, but they say they were still amazed at how beautiful the entire Earth looked globe, the globe looked from pole to pole. They said they could see the northern lights from the outer space, Like how cool is that? But anyway, they're going, it's gonna take them about four days to get to the moon, so we're expecting to get some images of the moon come monday.
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Speaker 2: That's amazing that we can get all this, that we can communicate the way we are, and you know they'll be doing interviews and all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's awesome.
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Speaker 2: We can't even get a signal with the bottom of home Goods over here. That's true, it's Marshall's that's it all right, stay with us here on this Friday morning run when we come back. I don't really understand there is a one sentence Truth Social post from the President last night that has to do with one of the biggest stars in music and plastic surgery. Will try to explain. Also, Women's Final four coming up tonight. There will be a rematch of last year's final. Also, there's a new baby born. We don't know where the baby was born, what the baby's name is, and how much the baby waits. But congratulations and the silliest story about purses that I have ever ever heard. For some reason, Robes loves him. We continue on this Friday morning run nine o'clock at night nine twenty last night, the President of the United States. Can you imagine the things that are coming at him dealing with war? The time differences right and people are waking up on one side of the world dealing with war. It's constant robes for this guy. But at nine twenty one last night, he made time to make a statement that does he feel is important?
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Speaker 1: Okay? Can anyone else try to figure the us out? This is what the President put on Truth Social. Is Bruce Springsteen going to sue his plastic surgeon? Question mark?
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Speaker 2: That's the whole post? Did I miss something? I know he's upset. Bruce Springsteen has been outspoken about the president, and he's.
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Speaker 1: Against written some songs about Minneapolis. He's on a tour.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what did I miss about the plastic surgeon.
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Speaker 1: He's just trying to make him embarrassed, Yes, just trying to find something he can say, You're a fool, You're an idiot. Just trying to make fun of him and get a rise out of him.
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Speaker 2: I guess at nine to twenty last night, he just sends an insult to Bruce Springsteen via truth Social Oh my goodness, Yes, he was tweeting some other stuff as well. I didn't understand that is Bruce Springsteen known for something about his face? Is it a thing?
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Speaker 1: I think he might have done some tweaking. Tweaking, some tweaking. You know, when men tweak, it's it seems a little bit even more obvious sometimes than even when women tweak. But yes, wow, okay, might have done some tweaking.
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Speaker 2: All right, I could do you on the run here now. Yes. Final four underway for the men and women this weekend. Women are up first. They'll have the semifinals tonight. The championship will be on Sunday. Then the men will have their semi finals. Saturday night, and the championship will be on Monday. But tonight Yukon versus South Carolina at seven o'clock rematch of the twenty twenty five National Championship that Yukon won, and then Texas USLA would be playing tonight at nine thirty. Again a reminder, all number one seeds do not miss this final four. These are the absolute best teams, best coaches, best players in the country.
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Speaker 1: So I know what we're doing tonight, all right. Next up on the run, it's a girl. Congratulations to Josh Allen and Hailey Steinfeld, who welcomed their first child this week. Is TJ t's going to the Rake? And that's all we got, folks, because we don't know the name, the wait, the birthday, nothing. We just know that the baby exists and who their parents are.
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Speaker 2: We had a baby.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Oh we know it's a girl. We do know it's a girl.
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Speaker 2: That's very Congrats to them. I didn't I couldn't keep up. They are married. She announced the pregnancy before they got married, or I can't. But they are officially married now, aren't.
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Speaker 1: They not deny that? I don't think I think they are.
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Speaker 2: Were congratts they're a sweet cute.
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Speaker 1: I like that they are cute.
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Speaker 2: I like them a lot. Last leg of the run here scientists and the designers are claiming to have created robes. What this is the purse we need? Really, Prada louis not making enough for you. You need a t rex purse. They have made a purse robes and please explain to me how do you make a leather purse? And that leather is Toronto Sur's rex leather.
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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so apparently scientists were able to take fragments of fossilized t rex collagen and from that develop lab grown what they're calling t rex leather. So right now, the leather that they developed is one of a kind. It's in a collector's purse. It's on display at Amsterdam's Art Zoo Museum.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's going to be auctioned off starting at half a million dollars. I'm asking, though, does anybody have a problem with this?
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Speaker 1: So no, In fact, they're actually trying to say. This company and three other companies announced as well that they are developing lab grown t rex leather as well, so that they can produce this for the masses. But what they're trying to do is say hey, we don't have to use animal leather to have quality, designer luxury products. That this can be just as cool and special and be from basically fossilized cells of a t rex, where we can create a leather like product that would basically supplant actually using real leathers. So a lot of people who are into vegan leather and don't want to actually consume or have leather products. This is an alternative expensive though.
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Speaker 2: Because it's extinct, it's not the same. Because the animal doesn't exist anymore, we can better about it.
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Speaker 1: Correct well, and it's not actually you're not using an animal carcass. You're creating a lab grown version of the leather. And some people are saying.
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Speaker 2: This is BS so it's not actually from a t rex.
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Speaker 1: Well it is, they are. I don't know how science, I'm not a scientist, but somehow if you can somehow replicate fossilized collagen, and some people say, give me a break, this is a really ridiculous marketing campaign to try and sell a product you're claiming as luxury.
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Speaker 2: Who's that group?
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Speaker 1: I would like to jump, But it is cool if you look up the pictures like the way they have it displayed under this t rex. Yeah it's so cool.
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Speaker 2: Well look I typed in TX bag.
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Speaker 1: Okay, there are some knockoffs, but there is the special one in Amsterdam that will go to a lucky person who has a ton of money. All right, on this Friday, we have our quote of the day. You know what, you were actually looking for some inspiration and I like this because it gives you a daily step by step. Here's the quote of the day. Just for today. Be kind to yourself, no boy, be patient with those you love, be present in all that you do, and then tomorrow begin again. But I like the idea you take it one day at a time, one step at a time. Don't get overwhelmed. But what are we going to do? Where are we going? What's happening next? Right now? Just remember to be kind to yourself. You don't remember to do that. Lot of folks don't remember. Just be kind to yourself, and then be patient with those you love, and be present in all that you do. That is going to help. Keep in mind those three steps for today, and then do it again tomorrow. It's a good all right. I love that, And with that, everyone, Happy Friday. I'm Amy Roeboch, thank you for running with us, and.
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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. Talk sim