Morning Run: Trump Disrupts US Open, Texas Manhunt, Powerball Jackpot Winners, Ebola Outbreak, 15 Year Old Saint and Conjuring Breaks Records

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Ron. It's Monday, September eighth. I'm Amy Robots.

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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Congrats in Texas. Congrats in Missouri. One point seven eight seven billion dollar jackpot. Two winning tickets were sold in those two spots. And Robes, Yes, congratulations, But one of these winners is coming out considerably better than the other.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, stay taxes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because of where they happened to live. We'll get into that. Always something fun with the power ball, but yes, that one is finally done. Also, Robes, Yesterday, the US Open Men's Final was more eventful than they wanted.

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Speaker 2: It to be correct. It wasn't about what was happening on the court. It was what was happening in the stands or getting into the stands.

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Speaker 1: It was a mess, folks. It was an actual mess at the US Open Men's final. And yes it was Donald Trump's vault. Will explains a little harsh, but we'll explain the mess that happened there yesterday. Also, this is huge for us, the horror movie fans that we are horror movie having a moment. Really a summer but even a year almost in last weekend. This past weekend was another big indication.

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Speaker 2: Oh, our favorite series, the Conjuring series just buoyed up the horror genre in so many ways because I think, well, we know, we can see from the numbers, people are jumping on board the horror movie train. People used to think it was, you know, some niche film thing that weirdos like to go see because we were attracted to like the fascination with the abomination. No, this is for the masses. People love horror movies.

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Speaker 1: It's official, and we will tell you about the records now that the latest Conjuring movie has said. Also, people rail against billionaires. Look at those billionaires. Look at what they're doing over there. Everybody's mad at the billionaires. Well wait until you hear now we might get our first trillionaire. Is this really gonnaenes?

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Speaker 2: They It might. Yes, it's actually possible in ten years. Not right now, but in ten years, yes, we could have the world's first trillionaire.

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Speaker 1: H you know him and know him well. But yes, we'll explain the pay package that is putting one person on the path to becoming possibly the first trillionaire that the world has ever seen. Also a reminder for you. Now take a look at that phone the Apple podcast app where our show page is top right corner, a little button that says follow click that you can get our updates coming to you. You don't have to go looking for him there. Also on the run on this Monday morning, a few other things to tell you about. Hundreds detained in that massive ice rate now awaiting a charter flight home. Also a man hunt near Houston, a new Ebola outbreak to tell you about, and a fifteen year old saint. That is all the buzz right now. Ropes.

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Speaker 2: That's right, all right, but we have to begin our run on this Monday with that celebration. At least for two people. We have a winner. We actually have winners in the record powerball jackpot for the weekend. You know what, It wasn't just too Almost ten million people actually won something in this country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's be clear. They're not splitting the billion dollar jackpie. But yes, a lot of tickets out there. And there's a reason, folks, you need to look at your tickets even if you didn't win the big jackpie. We'll explain. Well, the winning tickets we were talking about, they were sold the jackpot tickets sold in Texas, another one was sold in Missouri. Now, these two winners, they will have to split the one point seven eight seven billion dollar powerball jackpot, the second largest in US history. So the numbers breakdown is like this. If you go with the cash option on the one point seven eighty seven billion, you'll get eight hundred and twenty point six million dollars. That's the cash option, and that's the cash ropes they have to split.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's right. So that means each winner will get four hundred and ten million, three hundred thousand before taxes, but after taxes take home for the winner in Texas about two hundred and sixty million. The Missouri winners take home will be about twenty million dollars less given those state taxes. And by the way, in case you hadn't heard and you need to check your ticket, the winning numbers eleven, twenty three, forty four, sixty one, sixty two and the powerball was seventeen.

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Speaker 1: And you mentioned earlier, Yes, that nine point nine million tickets out there won something. Yes, it might be two dollars, might be ten, might be one hundred. But in some cases folks have on. You have what is this? You have at least almost three hundred and twenty tickets out there that are between fifteen one hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's not nothing.

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Speaker 1: Check your tickets, folks, don't throw them out just yet. You possibly won something.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's worth a look, all right.

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Speaker 1: Continuing on our run, now head back here to New York where President Trump attended the men's US Open final yesterday and thousands of people probably wish he had not. Now, this is not a political story, folks. This has nothing to do publican a democrat and political leanings. Rather, their annoyance was at the security headache prompted by the president's presence.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's because elevated TSA style security had to be put in place by Secret Service. Understandably, though US Tennis said they sent notices out, a lot of folks say they never got a heads up about extra security and they did not know they needed to be their extra early. They actually pushed the start time of the match back thirty minutes to try and accommodate all those fans who were stuck in security lines, but that didn't really help much.

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Speaker 1: This was not a good look. So the match was already delayed, but they kept showing these live images on TV, and folks, it looked like it looked like a gate life situation at the airport with thousands of people just crowded. They could not get in ropes. I didn't realize it makes sense now, But you can get onto the grounds of the US Tennis associated for the US, go to a restaurant or get a drink and all this, but you're already inside. You're not thinking I need to get to my stadium early. You think it is not going to be a problem, and that's what the problem was. And everybody got stuck. So we're talking forty five minutes an hour plus until the match is going on, and you still got huge crowds outside clamoring trying to get in. It was not a good look.

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Speaker 2: No, and imagine how much money these people paid to see the men's finals. That's a huge bucket list thing to go see and for them to have missed most of it, or at least half of it, is really tough. Meanwhile, the USTA asked that ABC ESPN refrain from showing crowd reactions or disruptions related to the President's attention, and there weren't major disruptions, but there were a few occasions where Trump was shown on the big screen and there was a mix of scattered applause and booze. The President was attending as a guest of Rolex and several members of the president's cabinet and stafford with them. We could see Carolyn Levitt, I believe was there.

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Speaker 1: The Pambondy Treasury Secretary twister.

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Speaker 2: And then it looked like Ivanka's daughter was there as well. So yes, it was a it was a spectacle for a good.

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Speaker 1: Time to be had by all. It wasn't that bad some of the booing and the cheers, but they didn't show him that much. But he did have a moment where he the national anthem and he was saluting and they showed him and I mean it was you say, that little smirk he had on his space, he gave a little grin that was just a nod to what was happening, if you will. By the way, Yeah, there was a tennis match and Spain's Carlos Alchoraz beat Italy's Janick Center and four sets to win the US Open title. This is Alchoraz's sixth Grand Slam title. He's just twenty two years old. He's the second youngest to ever get to six Grand Slam wins this early in his life. Alcoraz and Center have won every major title in the past two years. So to your point about the fans spending all that money, you know what, they also missed number one and number two player in the world going at it once again. This is just that it was really unfortuate to see what was happening. It was a mess.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I liked our seat. Yeah it wasn't bet on our couch watching from the comforts of home with some popcorn, all right. Next up on the run, President Trump is putting Chicago on notice via social media meme. In a weekend post, he's threatening a chipocalypse, using an AI generated image with what appears to be smoldering Chicago in the background and Trump in a hat and sunglasses. This is all reminiscent of Apocalypse. Now Robert Duval's character who says I love the smell of napalm in the morning, we all know that line in that movie. Well, yeah, President Trump went with that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he went with that and added this line to the meme, I love the smell of deportations in the morning, Chicago, about to find out why it's called the Department of War. Hipocalypse now is what it read. Now. This raised a lot of eyebrow. Some people just shake their heads and being dismissive. This is just Trump doing his thing. But plenty of other people robes have already seen he's done in LA and DC and are taking this quite seriously. The President has been talking or some say threatening, for weeks to put National Guard on the ground in Chicago similar to what he did in d C, in order to crack down on immigration and crime. All right, stay tuned.

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Speaker 2: They're on notice, all right. Next up on the run, hundreds of South Koreans busted in a massive ice raid at a Hyundai plant Hyundai Hyundai, a Hyundai plant in Georgia. They're now waiting for their ride home. The South Korean government says it's going to send a chartered plane to pick up the three hundred workers who've been detained.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, A US Immigration detained a total of four hundred and seventy five people, mostly yes, those South Korean nationals at this plant last week and what was the largest single site raid in homeland security history. The workers were suspected of living and working in the US illegally.

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Speaker 2: South Korea said it's working an agreement for their release and would send a chartered plane to pick them up, and they added they would be working to review and imp prove the residency status for personnel traveling to the United States.

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Speaker 1: Sorry continue on the run now, We had to Texas, where an urgent manhunt is underway for a man accused of opening fire on a group of people eating and drinking at a patio bar just outside Houston. One man has died, five others wounded, two of them critically.

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Speaker 2: The shooting was all captured on security video. It happened around two thirty in the morning early Sunday, when witnesses told police just an hour before the gunman was sitting there alone at the bar, quietly drinking a beer. Police say the gunman eventually walked out of the bar, but only to come back to the bar's outdoor patio and open fire without any warning. Based on the number of shell casings, police say the gum and fired at least twenty shots before fleeing the scene in a white full sized van with no side windows. So they're asking for help and identifying this man, but there's no known motive. It's really inexplicable. What happened?

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Speaker 1: All right? Our next leg of the run now takes us to Congo. Another disturbing story. A health alert here, authorities warning of a new ebola outbreak. His current outbreak has already killed fifteen people among the twenty eight confirmed cases so far, and the World Health Organization is warning the numbers are expected to rise.

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Speaker 2: One of the major concerned scientists have confirmed that the latest cases involve the most virulent strain of the virus. It's known as zaire. Ebola is highly contagious. It's transmitted by bodily fluids and can be transmitted if those fluids are on any surface like betting or clothing. This is the sixteenth outbreak of ebola in Congo, and the health minister said the fatality rate stands at nearly fifty four percent. They're saying, that's why this is so concerning. This is a virus that more often kills than not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and again this is anytime we hear about ebol, I mean, one case of ebola, people will pay attention. But when you hear about an ebola outbreak in the exact region where Ebola was originally discovered and put the world on notice. What in seventy five, seventy six or something like that. It is of course going to be of concern. We'll stay with the folks here on this morning morning run. When we come back the latest saint and he was only fifteen years old, we'll tell you what's happening there in Rome. Also, a billionaire could become a trillionaire. You probably already know who the guy is, but we'll explain the pay package they're putting together that could take him to a whole new level of salary, if you will, And horror movie fans unite, we are having a moment continuing now on this Monday morning run. On next leg takes us to Rome, where Pope Leo made a fifteen year old the Catholic Church's first millennial Saint on Sunday. Carlo Acutis died nearly twenty years ago, within days of being diagnosed with leukemia, but he devoted much of his young life to spreading the word of God through technology, earning him the nick name God's Influencer.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Acutas created a multi lingual website documenting eucharistic miracles recognized by the Church, and he did so at a time when it was pretty much unheard of for any amateur or certainly not a child of his age to be able to accomplish. So the Catholic Church also requires two miracles to be attributed to someone before they're canonized.

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Speaker 1: So he has too yes attributed to him. The first reportedly happened when the church says Acutus healed a Brazilian boy with a birth defect. In the second, Acutas reportedly healed a girl from Costa Rica who was suffering from head trauma. Her mother says she prayed for her daughter's recovery at his tomb.

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Speaker 2: So after his passing, Acutus was ultimately yes entombed in a church in Assisi, where millions of young Catholics have been visiting over the years. This was Leo's first saint making mass, that's what they call it. I checked didn't know that that was a thing, but this was a saint making mass, and nearly eighty thousand people showed up in Saint Peter Square to witness Leo Canonis, Acutus and another popular Italian man who died young as well at the age of twenty four. His name was Pierre Giorgio Frasati.

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Speaker 1: Now Prasanti died suddenly from polio, but was known for his devotion to serving the poor and carrying out acts of charity, spreading faith to his peers. Leo said, both of these saints now created masterpieces out of their lives by dedicating them to God. That's a what a cool story. I wasn't familiar with this young man until let's talk about sainthood. But to see how young people are, they can relate. So it's not some old guy in a gown. They don't know. This is really cool.

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Speaker 2: Yes, where Acutus's body is they've actually made It was a very complicated wax mold of his body. Anyway, there's he's in Nike sneakers, jeans, a hoodie. So the hope is that this will attract or at least spread the word among younger Catholics. And they said the crowd that was out there was significantly younger, like millennials, and then young couples with young children. And that is the hope that the Catholic Church can grow from all. Right, Next up on the run from billionaire to trillionaire Musk may be well on his way. Tesla's board of directors is asking its shareholders to approve a pay package for Musk that could be worth one trillion dollars over the next ten years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And a letter to shareholders, the board says it is looking to quote, retain, and incentivize Elon to focus his energies on Tesla and lead us through the pitiful this pivotal moment in our history. Am I reading this right? He's being rewarded for his absence.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they want him to stick around, They want him to focus.

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Speaker 1: But he's been absent since last summer in a lot of ways because he's been doing a lot of politics. So him being absent from work has gotten him a race.

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Speaker 2: Hey, absence makes the heart grow fonder, don't they say?

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Speaker 1: Is amazing? Now? To get this full package, Tesla would have to read some pretty significant markers, right, a market value eight times its current value over the next decade, So it would need to reach eight and a half trillion correct over the next decade to do But possible.

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Speaker 2: I think they believe it's possible with this new era of just what we're looking at robotics, etc. So Tesla would also need to deliver twenty million vehicles, produce one million robotaxis, and manufacture one million of its humanoid robots it's called Optimists, which are currently under development right now. So basically the board wants him committed and focused to CEO through twenty thirty and they believe just with all the innovations that are coming around, with all this automated technology, it's really important and clearly financially, there's an incentive for him and for the board to bring Tesla through this next period.

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Speaker 1: It's mind blowing. And I know a lot of people look at and everything going on in the country, but if there is a company that thinks it can still stay profitable by handing over a trillion dollars to someone, it's hard to compute. Yep, it's hard to compute. Right, final leg here for us now, ah, this is a doozy. We would like to take full credit and responsibility for the latest conjuring moving doing as well as it did. We were there on night one, the first opportunity. These were previews. We didn't not even night one really, it was pre night one.

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Speaker 2: We were so excited. We were jet lagged and tired, and we didn't care, say we are.

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Speaker 1: Going to see this two hour, fifteen minute movie in a dark theater, exhausted, and it was worth it. But yes, the latest Conjuring movie it did open this weekend, and it blew past all box office expectations on its way to setting horror movie records. Conjuring last rites, It's the fourth in the Conjuring series, made eighty three million dollars at the domestic box office robes. It was only predicted to make forty to fifty.

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Speaker 2: Million, and if it had made forty to fifty it still would have been a wild success. So the fact that it doubled that pretty much is remarkable. Combined with international sales, get this, the movie made one hundred and eighty seven million dollars, which is the second highest opening for a horror movie ever. I didn't realize what the number one movie was. It was just barely behind twenty seventeen's It, which which totally makes sense.

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Speaker 1: You remember that was such a big blockbuster.

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Speaker 2: It was Steve Stephen King.

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Speaker 1: You're redoing all great actors in it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, we all grew up. I read the book, watched all the initial iterations of it, so yes. The one hundred four million it made overseas, by the way, is the largest international opening for a horror movie.

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Speaker 1: This is I am so happy and proud. And after we saw the movie, we recorded an episode. If you all want to go check it out, listen to our late night recording.

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Speaker 2: We were giddy.

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Speaker 1: We were so giddy, but we were a little pissed because we saw some reviews that we thought were a little harsh.

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Speaker 2: And now I feel justified ballid it. Yeah, it is a good movie. In fact, Annelius, my youngest, actually was cute. She facetimed us yesterday and said, Mom, we're going to see The Conjuring. Is it gonna be good? And I was like, you're in for a tree and yes.

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Speaker 1: Word of mouth is helping it because we are screaming to anybody within earshot of us that hey, you need to go see this. But the Conjuring franchise, it includes the Nun movies and the Annabelle movies, the most successful horror movie franchise in history. This year, Center's Final Destination, Bloodlines, and Weapons. Those were Hal's so good as huge hits, and this movie Conjuring has outdone them.

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Speaker 2: All, almost doubled what they did at least opening weekend five.

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Speaker 1: We're very happy.

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Speaker 2: This is so exciting. I just it's sad that it's the last one.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing now, they said it was it's a record setting movie. Now you really think they're gonna stop making conjuring movies.

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Speaker 2: They got it, But you know what they need Patrick Wilson and Via farmiingo though, because.

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Speaker 1: I won't show up without those.

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Speaker 2: They need to be So look, obviously, with this kind of money, money talks, so someone can say it's their last one. I was reading articles about Via saying just how physically taxing it is, all the stunts they have to do, getting thrown around the room, et cetera. So it's actually so exhausting. However, heavy material, money talks.

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Speaker 1: Sweetheart, how are they gonna close the chapter when you just made history?

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Speaker 2: And there are other cases. There's so many cases that Ed and Larrae Moore uncovered, so there is there's more content content, please, but we need those too, We need those too. All right, as you go about your day on this Monday, we would love for you to consider this. This is our quote of the day. Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.

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Speaker 1: Did you pick this one on purpose? This seems very tinmely with a lot we've been talking about.

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Speaker 2: I absolutely chose it on purpose because it's been tough. I mean, news has been tough all around. But I just feel like the shootings and the just people behaving badly, you know, just from a from a fan in the stand, you know, stealing hats from kids to shooters, just or or even people making a false shooter. Like just there we see and we hear a lot of the evil in the world, and I just love this reminder from Martin Luther King Junior.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I haven't heard this with.

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Speaker 2: This I had not either, and I just thought it was so beautiful and so timely.

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Speaker 1: I think about it often that we've been talking about this with politics and this idea we on fight fire with fire, we're gonna need to. I hate the idea. Anytime somebody tries to match somebody else's foolish the thing you were just criticizing in their behavior, you know what, I'm gonna do that too.

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Speaker 2: That's that kind of it's human nature to do that. It's this like, I don't know if it's the ego, but this need to defend and this need to just match people's energy. But no, Martin Luther King Junior, thank you for this amazing quote today. Hope you can take this with you. Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. So let's be the light. Let's be the love everybody. And also a reminder, it is Monday, and that means you can go to Yahoo check out the Life page because we have a new column a question from a reader, and that question is, well, our reader is forty five years old. He had a vasectomy after two kids with his first wife. They got divorced. Now he's got a second wife four years and guess what she's asking him to have the vasectomy reverse? He asks us, what should he do? So we're going to have a podcast about the article. Love for you to check out the column first, but then also please check out our next episode which will be coming out a little later today. But in the meantime, everyone, thank you so much for running with us on this Monday.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. See Y'll say