Jan. 14, 2026
Morning Run: Trump Flips Off Worker, Greenland White House Meeting, Keifer Sutherland Arrested, Timothy Busfield Surrenders, Dilbert Creator Dies, Saks Is Bankrupt and BTS is Back
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, thanks for joining us for two days. Morning Run.
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, It's Humpday, January fourteenth.
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Speaker 3: I made me robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 4: Holmes. Was it a middle finger or not? I couldn't tell it was. I honestly could not tell that. I looked. I looked closer and closer. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong view. But if you haven't seen yet, yes, the President flipped somebody off yesterday, but I couldn't really.
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Speaker 3: Tell by the see.
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Speaker 1: For me, it was unmistakable. He absolutely flipped the guy off. He upset him. I believe the word is he called him a pedophile protectors And you can see the President getting angry, pointing his finger, and then he starts to walk off, and he just turns around, and just the way he does it, you can tell he is fluming him the burden.
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Speaker 4: I might be looking at the wrong video. Well, folks, we'll get into where the president was, why he did this, and why we don't have to say he allegedly flipped somebody off. We do have something beyond just the video confirmation. We'll explain. As always on this Wednesday, top right corner of your Apple podcast app where you see our show page at button this says follow hit that and you can get our updates coming to you. And there are a plenty these days, but we will begin on the morning run. Tell you first where the run will take us. We'll make stops this morning in Pittsburgh, in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. We'll go to Minneapolis, Albuquerque, Montgomery, Alabama, Detroit, as well as Hollywood. But we do have to begin today robed in Tehran.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: We begin our run overseas where the Iranian regime suggests fast trials and executions for people who are caught protesting. Right now, we have a wide range and regardless of the numbers, they're all terrible of death estimates for people who have protested. Human rights groups are saying about twenty five hundred Iranians have been killed in protests. Others estimate that number could be twelve thousand upwards to twenty thousand, and those same numbers vary in terms of how many people have been imprisoned, have been arrested for protesting, and the threat for them is serious.
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Speaker 4: The questions now, and the concern are is that members of the judiciary there in Iran are saying and promising fast trials and possibly fast execution. So the President Trump has now gotten involved in this and said help is on the way. First of all, he said that in a social media post to the folks of Iran, saying keep doing your thing, keep it up, you have our support. Help is on the way. But he did also say that the US will take very strong action if they start executing protesters. The thing is here now. The President has moved the red line. He said he is locked and loaded. The US is locked and loaded if they start killing protesters. When he said that the estimates were under ten that had been killed, now we're talking about thousands and there's been no action. And now on top of that, we're talking about executions. So that's what the President said, but it's going the wrong direction right now as Lis is bringing tensions down.
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Speaker 1: Well, the concern is he put in all caps, keep protesting, take over your institutions, knowing full well that Iron has said, I mean, they have proven that they will kill protesters, and even if you're just arrested, you may likely die ultimately with your fast trial and quick execution. So scary times over there. Next up on the run, there is a big meeting at the White House today. Is it a meeting? Is it a negotiation? We're not really sure, but here is is it a shakedown? Meaning yes, We've got Vice President Jade Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They are meeting with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland. And we have heard that Greenland says it's not for sale. Denmark doesn't really even have the right to sell it. They aren't interested regardless. But the US has made it very clear we want to buy Greenland, so needed for national security. Let's see what happened.
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Speaker 4: You want to handle this like some gentlemen, or you want to get into some gangst it ish.
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Speaker 2: Denmark, Here's how we do it in the state.
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Speaker 4: So yes, that's happening today. Continuing on the run here on this Wednesday morning, now, at least six six federal prosecutors in Minneapolis have resigned in protest over the DOJ's handling of that deadly ice shooting of Renee Good. Among them that have resigned the head of the US Attorney's office there in Minneapolis, Joe Thompson on the issue here is that many of them are saying they were not happy with where they were being pressured to take the investigation. They said it was not an investigation of the officer's behavior. They are saying they're been told to look at Renee Good's widow as possibly a target of a criminal investigation. So meanwhile, you'll see some of these pictures, but these demonstrations, confrontations, and clashes continue in the streets of Minneapolis.
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Speaker 3: It continued overnight.
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Speaker 1: And the disruption of losing these federal prosecutors, especially Joe Thompson, is disruptive to the investigation that Trump has been pursuing. That he has been saying is the reason why all of these federal officers had to go to Minneapolis in the first place, investigating these fraud cases. So with these prosecutors stepping down, they're the ones who are in charge of this massive.
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Speaker 3: Fraud case, huge hole.
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Speaker 1: So this is not just even about that, this causes massive disruption in that state. So stay tuned to that situation. Next up on the Run, though, President Trump, Yes, let's get into flipgate. Apparently flip someone off yesterday at a Ford plant, there was a Heckler, you can see the video for yourself.
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Speaker 2: TMZ.
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Speaker 1: We keep pointing people to TMZ, but damn they keep getting these incredible exclusive videos. But as I watched it, it was very obvious to this person observer. Yes, and someone who has flipped I do, in a joking way, enjoy flipping the bird.
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Speaker 4: So yes, to whom jokingly you can you do that joking lead of people, I.
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Speaker 2: Do it to you jokingly?
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Speaker 3: Well, you called it flip gate.
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Speaker 4: It's only a flipgate to me, apparently because I'm the only one that can't see it. The video is out there, but even you don't have to examine the video, and we don't have to argue about the video. The White House is confirming what the President did, saying, quote, a lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous the response.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hilarious. They're saying, yeah, duh, he flipped them off.
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Speaker 2: Deal with it.
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Speaker 4: There are sometimes at the White House. I give them credit where credit's to. The tone was right, This was okay, not saying you should flip anybody off, but if you have to have an excuse for it.
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Speaker 1: They nailed it, and the union says that the worker has been suspended for heckling the president.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's within their rights.
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Speaker 1: Free speech is I guess only to a certain extent if you're an employee and a representative of a company. And if they think that it's inappropriate, which I think probably heckling the president would fall under that line. He has been suspended, and I would think maybe perhaps his job is on the line.
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Speaker 3: If the President has anything to do with it.
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Speaker 2: All right, next stuff on the Run.
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Speaker 1: Actor Timothy Bussfield expected to make his first court appearance today. We think this has been a story that has evolved over the last several days, and it's taken some twists and turns because at this point yesterday Busfield was at large and US marshalls were looking for him. But yesterday he turned himself into Albuquerque. He says he drove two thousand miles to turn himself in. He's facing two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he did have a video again obtained by TMZ. It looked like he was at his lawyer's office, but he said in that video only went about a minute or so but said I did not do anything to those little boys. That he will defend himself against what he says are outright lies. Meanwhile, his wife, Melissa Gilbert, I always turned to you because you have to put it in context of how iconic she is, and I always mess up.
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Speaker 1: Yes, who she was, Yes, Little House on the Prairie. She was Laura Ingalls Wilder, half Pint. She was the star of the show, a familiar face to so many people tral seventies and eighties, Absolutely a television icon. And so even when you see, unfortunately for her, Timothy Busfield's name, it's often stated it's Melissa Gilbert's husband, But he is an Emmy Award winning actor in and of his self himself, and his face is certainly familiar. It's just his name might not be a household name unfortunately until now for him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Melissa Gilbert did put out a statement yesterday, but it was through her attorneys, not exactly her words, but they said in the statement she stands with and supports her husband and will address the public at the appropriate time. They also acknowledged I didn't realize that this happens now. Every time there's some big story that these statements that certainly look real are attributed to someone and they get posted online. But they addressed that there's a bunch of fakes out there and nothing is from Melissa Go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They called the Deep AI fakes of her alleged statements or her screaking out you.
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Speaker 2: Even I thought this was interesting. This is where we are. When we saw the.
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Speaker 1: Timothy Bussfield video where he looks at Cameron says I didn't do anything to those little boys, you were like, I need to verify this isn't an AI video, Like we need to make sure this is him.
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Speaker 4: It's scary because yesterday I did this on a program we used. This is terrifying. I just we were doing the story about President Trump and Machado and the Nobel Peace Prize, and I just told this chatbot, make me a picture of Machado giving Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, and sure enough, in less than a minute, there was a photo that looked so real.
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Speaker 2: That is so scary.
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Speaker 3: It is terrible.
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Speaker 1: You can't trust anything you read. Already, we knew that we've been preaching that, but now you cannot trust anything you see, even a video, even a photo.
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Speaker 2: That that is some crap.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how people are going to navigate truth from here on.
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Speaker 4: As Ye, to your point, that was my first thought. I saw the video of him, but it appears to be real, and he reference I came out here to Albuquerque and pointing to his background which looked very bright, looked like the desert behind him. But yet from what I can tell, he is in jail this morning.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and he even said in that video, I hope I get out soon. So he was preparing it seemed to spend the night and then have a hearing today. Of course, we will continue to follow any developments in that case. But next up on the run, Keefer Sutherland accused of beating up a ride share driver. He got in the car, according to police, assaulted the driver. And what he's being charged with, and this is how they describe it. He's he made criminal threats.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, don't know what this was about. What could have happened? Why, don't know, But he was booked. He's been released on fifty thousand dollars bond. And we'll wait and we'll see on this one. It doesn't make a whole lot sense at this point what went down.
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Speaker 1: Look, he's had some problems with the law, a lot of them dealing with DUIs et cetera, alcohol fueled behavior. He went to jail in two thousand and seven, convicted in two thousand and four, so he's had several alcohol related arrests.
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Speaker 2: Don't know if that was.
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Speaker 3: The a suggestion of that in this one, is it?
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Speaker 1: No, But it happened after midnight getting into a ride share.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's just people are pointing his prior issues and wondering if maybe there is a connection.
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Speaker 4: Okay, that's I mean, that sucks. That's what folks do, and that's unfortunate and something like that stage with him, But he hasn't had any issues. He's had along and he hasn't had one in a long time. Your career and all that stuff was a while back. Have no idea what could have happened here, But yeah, I just don't want to eat. That's something whatever you do just dogs you the rest of your life. He'll never get away from. He can get a parking ticket and they'll say, well, yeah, back in nineteen ninety four.
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Speaker 2: It's true. We're a big key for Sutherland fans. Love twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Jack Bauer will always be Number one watched every single episode of that series.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Dilbert creator Scott Adams has died at the age of sixty eight. He had an aggressive form he described of prostate cancer and metastatic prostate cancer, and he passed away.
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Speaker 4: And his death became a point of some political contention yesterday, back and forth. Yes we find a reason to argue about anything, but yes, he of course behind Dilbert, which focused on office culture, I guess became an animated series as well. So it's been around. His nineteen eighty nine wildly successful. But a lot of newspapers dropped him in twenty twenty three because he did he expressed conservative views. That's not why they dropped him. But some of his views that he did come out with were extreme.
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Speaker 1: He called Black Americans a hate group and also encouraged white folks to distance themselves from black folk.
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Speaker 2: Get the hell away from black peops.
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Speaker 4: He said something. It's not just a conservative view, or he wasn't. It was a racist view because of that, but some people took issue. In one publication says disgraced Dilbert creator passes away like a lot of folks on the conservative side, like, why put that, Why are you suggesting that? Well, it's actually what happened. He lost, he said, eighty percent of his income after that whole controversy.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of folks got.
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Speaker 1: On board, promoted racist views and promoted racist behavior.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it wasn't beyond it was beyond just conservatives. All right, folks, we'll stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, Fifth Avenue has gone bankrupt, we'll explain what happened there. Also why the Pittsburgh Steelers need a coach for the first time in twenty years. My favorite boy band of all time is back. And before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin.
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Speaker 3: And we've just lost a piece of civil rights history.
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Speaker 1: Stare Welcome back everyone to this Wednesday morning run and news that SAX Fifth Avenue has gone bankrupt. SAX Global has filed for bankruptcy protection. This is the parent company of Sacks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. So you're talking about luxury fashion in peril significantly. Now stores are going to remain open, they say, but this is deeply concerning. You know, SAX opened in nineteen twenty four, So one hundred and fifty nine year old department store. It's a destination for tourists in Manhattan to see the flagship store of Sacksmith Avenue. It's windows decorated for Christmas. It's just a symbol of New York truly and luxury fashion.
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Speaker 2: So this is a big, big deal.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know they were.
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Speaker 4: All under the same umbrella, SASA, Marcus and Burgdorf.
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Speaker 1: And just recently, right they and now Nieman Marcus, the CEO is going to take over. The person who was in charge of saxonth Avenue on the job for just two weeks. He's now been let go. So this is a company he did a terrible.
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Speaker 2: Apparently those two weeks were really rough.
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Speaker 1: Obviously it was his fag's insane.
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Speaker 3: Right, join a place and it goes bankrupt.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: They did get a financial commitment of nearly two billion dollars, so that hopefully will get them past this tough point. But yeah, brick and mortar companies are having problems, retail companies having problems all around the globe.
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Speaker 2: But this is a sign of the times.
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Speaker 4: All right, continuing on the run here now, and what kind of sign of the Times. Is this that a coach who in twenty years coaching one NFL team never never had a losing season. Wow, But today he's out of a job. We're talking about Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. Now he's stepped down. He wasn't fired, wasn't let go. He did have two years left on his contract. But he has been a staple on the sideline of the Pittsburgh Steelers, won a championship, won a super Bowl in his second year with the team.
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Speaker 3: Butt ropes.
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Speaker 4: He hasn't won a playoff game since twenty and ten years or so. His last seven playoff games he lost. So this was an issue people love and I mean love this guy.
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Speaker 1: And so so when you say he stepped down, though this was obviously a negotiated departure, it wasn't something he would have chosen, I would say, yes.
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Speaker 4: He maybe see that, maybe some writings on the wall, but also maybe it's time to move on that that city had one thing. You haven't won a super Bowl, but they've gone to the playoffs. The last seven times they went to the playoffs, they did not win a single playoff game. They got bounced, got it first round so that's that's kind of a big deal. But yet he'll be fine. Everybody wants to hire him, but apparently he's going to sit out the next season.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, speaking of big news, this is you are very excited about your boys are back.
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Speaker 2: BTS is back. They have announced their world tour.
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Speaker 1: They had to take a year off basically to serve in the military.
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Speaker 2: Wait four years, it's because they time fly.
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Speaker 4: They kind of staggered when some of them went in and how but yeah, they had to do the duty in South Korea. Took the four years off their bag. This would be their first tour, yes, in four almost five years. I think it is thirty four cities, seventy nine shows, and I do I won't go to a show at all, but I love these guys.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine though, what it would be like to go, because the only experience we have is when we were on Good Morning America when they came on the show. To see the level of commitment from their fans, cam like camping out in Times Square, just it was extraordinary to see their fan base.
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Speaker 4: It was twenty seventeen in Las Vegas at an award show on the Red carpet with Monica Escapido from GMA, and we see people going crazy, girls fainting over a group of guys we'd never seen before. We had no idea who they were. She had the thought, you know what, let me go figure this out, went introduced herself, brought them over to us.
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Speaker 3: We did an interview with BTS.
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Speaker 2: We know, we know who they were.
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Speaker 4: Only one of them spoke good enough English at the time to do the interview, and that was my first introduction. They won an award that night. We go backstage. By that time, we're all friends.
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Speaker 3: Like, oh yeah, from the Red carpet who wanted to talk to us because nobody knew who they were.
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Speaker 4: So that's why I love them, not just their music, which is great, but I just always remember that experience. I have a place near and dear in my heart for BTS.
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Speaker 2: That's very, very, very excited, Yes, that story.
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Speaker 3: Very excited about BTS.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well for the final leg of our run.
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Speaker 1: Look, I it's remarkable what we are not taught in school, because this was a name that I did not know. Claude at Colvin before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claude at Colvin in nineteen fifty five, at the age of fifteen, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, becoming a part of vil right's history, but not one that I read about.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't this cool? And it's cool that you can be sitting here. A lot of people listening to us may not know the name until she passed away, but she has passed away, Claudee Colvin at the age of eighty six. She was fifteen years old in nineteen fifty five when she refused to give up her seat. Now, she, as the story goes, wasn't supposed to give her seat to a white woman. But you couldn't sit across the aisle from a white person at the time, so she was asked to get up and move. She did not. She was with another group of friends. She said, she just in the moment, just decided she wasn't going to do it. And that is a part of the history because this wasn't planned. So many, like the civil rights groups, were organizing finding the right candidate to bring a case to take on the Montgomery restrictions on the buses, and because she was fifteen, they several reasons she wasn't the right candidate, They didn't coordinate. She just did it on a whim, and in some ways that makes her the pioneer really a little more. I don't want to say take away from anybody else, but she did it on her own. She wasn't trying to make a statement, she wasn't trying to organize with some group. Just in the moment she said nope.
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Speaker 1: And did she spark the idea that this was a way too quietly but defiantly prove a point or to make a point.
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Speaker 4: But this boy the plan and the boycott that they wanted to go after it in court, and you gotta have a plaintiff who's the right candidate to put forward in front of people to make everybody go okay, I'll listen to that young woman or that little girl. And it determined she wasn't. She was a part of another case later on that was successful. But it's just cool that her story is different and you don't know her name, but what she did was in a lot of ways just as that even some would say, more heroic than anybody did on a bus.
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Speaker 1: It's sad to recognize that I only am learning about her in her passing, but certainly a part of history and her legacy is for us to know and to learn about her.
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Speaker 4: So the coolest things she was charges were dropped, but one stayed on the assault of a police officer. It was only expunged I think a few years ago, twenty twenty one. Wow, what a line from her. She said, here, I am eighty two and I'm finally not a juvenile delinquent.
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Speaker 3: That's cool.
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Speaker 2: That speaks to her just who she was. I love that. That's a very cool story.
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Speaker 4: All right, before we let you go, something we would like for you to consider it is our quote of the day. I will predict you will like this one Robes quote. You don't get what you want, you get what you prepare for. Have you heard some variation of that at some point? I've always heard people make the argument, who.
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Speaker 3: You know what? We've seen this happen before.
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Speaker 4: Been staying with someone saying, hey, do you have any ideas for blah blah blah? Would you like to dat da? And you don't have an answer?
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Speaker 3: Ready? Right.
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Speaker 4: I was taught from people throughout my life you always be ready for the moment, even dress for the moment. Been folks have missed out on opportunities because you're not dressed the right way.
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Speaker 3: You don't get what you want. You want the perfect mate, you want the perfect woman, perfect man. But here you are out somewhere. Oh I'm not ready. I'm not wearing the right thing. Oh be ready?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I love that. Be ready again. Very empowering.
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Speaker 1: And we always we always give away our power to other people, to events, to the weather, to whatever oh is. Because of this, we're always making excuses, but we're not making preparations. And I think that's cool because that actually does empower each of us when we think about life like that. It's what you prepare for. It's what you're ready for. It's not what's coming to you or what you should expect.
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Speaker 4: Yes, some thing's fall in your lap and you're not ready for them. You haven't had somebody come over to your house and you start scramming, Oh god, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Ready to come Yes, lighting candles and clean things up.
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Speaker 4: Hey, what if that guest was Barack Obama? What if that guest with somebody? Are you going to say, oh my god, you can't come in because I'm not No, be prepared. Always take that with you Folks, you don't get what you want. You get what you prepare for. Robes, what are you prepared for today?
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Speaker 2: I'm prepared for work, love and laughter.
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Speaker 4: All right, folks, take that with you today. That'll be our quote. Two of today was again say it again, work love and laughter, work, love and laughter. With that, folks, enjoy your day. We always appreciate your running with us. I'm Tja amy Rovok.
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Speaker 2: We will run with you soon
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, thanks for joining us for two days. Morning Run.
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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, It's Humpday, January fourteenth.
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Speaker 3: I made me robot and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 4: Holmes. Was it a middle finger or not? I couldn't tell it was. I honestly could not tell that. I looked. I looked closer and closer. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong view. But if you haven't seen yet, yes, the President flipped somebody off yesterday, but I couldn't really.
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Speaker 3: Tell by the see.
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Speaker 1: For me, it was unmistakable. He absolutely flipped the guy off. He upset him. I believe the word is he called him a pedophile protectors And you can see the President getting angry, pointing his finger, and then he starts to walk off, and he just turns around, and just the way he does it, you can tell he is fluming him the burden.
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Speaker 4: I might be looking at the wrong video. Well, folks, we'll get into where the president was, why he did this, and why we don't have to say he allegedly flipped somebody off. We do have something beyond just the video confirmation. We'll explain. As always on this Wednesday, top right corner of your Apple podcast app where you see our show page at button this says follow hit that and you can get our updates coming to you. And there are a plenty these days, but we will begin on the morning run. Tell you first where the run will take us. We'll make stops this morning in Pittsburgh, in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. We'll go to Minneapolis, Albuquerque, Montgomery, Alabama, Detroit, as well as Hollywood. But we do have to begin today robed in Tehran.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: We begin our run overseas where the Iranian regime suggests fast trials and executions for people who are caught protesting. Right now, we have a wide range and regardless of the numbers, they're all terrible of death estimates for people who have protested. Human rights groups are saying about twenty five hundred Iranians have been killed in protests. Others estimate that number could be twelve thousand upwards to twenty thousand, and those same numbers vary in terms of how many people have been imprisoned, have been arrested for protesting, and the threat for them is serious.
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Speaker 4: The questions now, and the concern are is that members of the judiciary there in Iran are saying and promising fast trials and possibly fast execution. So the President Trump has now gotten involved in this and said help is on the way. First of all, he said that in a social media post to the folks of Iran, saying keep doing your thing, keep it up, you have our support. Help is on the way. But he did also say that the US will take very strong action if they start executing protesters. The thing is here now. The President has moved the red line. He said he is locked and loaded. The US is locked and loaded if they start killing protesters. When he said that the estimates were under ten that had been killed, now we're talking about thousands and there's been no action. And now on top of that, we're talking about executions. So that's what the President said, but it's going the wrong direction right now as Lis is bringing tensions down.
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Speaker 1: Well, the concern is he put in all caps, keep protesting, take over your institutions, knowing full well that Iron has said, I mean, they have proven that they will kill protesters, and even if you're just arrested, you may likely die ultimately with your fast trial and quick execution. So scary times over there. Next up on the run, there is a big meeting at the White House today. Is it a meeting? Is it a negotiation? We're not really sure, but here is is it a shakedown? Meaning yes, We've got Vice President Jade Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. They are meeting with the foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland. And we have heard that Greenland says it's not for sale. Denmark doesn't really even have the right to sell it. They aren't interested regardless. But the US has made it very clear we want to buy Greenland, so needed for national security. Let's see what happened.
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Speaker 4: You want to handle this like some gentlemen, or you want to get into some gangst it ish.
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Speaker 2: Denmark, Here's how we do it in the state.
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Speaker 4: So yes, that's happening today. Continuing on the run here on this Wednesday morning, now, at least six six federal prosecutors in Minneapolis have resigned in protest over the DOJ's handling of that deadly ice shooting of Renee Good. Among them that have resigned the head of the US Attorney's office there in Minneapolis, Joe Thompson on the issue here is that many of them are saying they were not happy with where they were being pressured to take the investigation. They said it was not an investigation of the officer's behavior. They are saying they're been told to look at Renee Good's widow as possibly a target of a criminal investigation. So meanwhile, you'll see some of these pictures, but these demonstrations, confrontations, and clashes continue in the streets of Minneapolis.
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Speaker 3: It continued overnight.
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Speaker 1: And the disruption of losing these federal prosecutors, especially Joe Thompson, is disruptive to the investigation that Trump has been pursuing. That he has been saying is the reason why all of these federal officers had to go to Minneapolis in the first place, investigating these fraud cases. So with these prosecutors stepping down, they're the ones who are in charge of this massive.
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Speaker 3: Fraud case, huge hole.
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Speaker 1: So this is not just even about that, this causes massive disruption in that state. So stay tuned to that situation. Next up on the Run, though, President Trump, Yes, let's get into flipgate. Apparently flip someone off yesterday at a Ford plant, there was a Heckler, you can see the video for yourself.
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Speaker 2: TMZ.
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Speaker 1: We keep pointing people to TMZ, but damn they keep getting these incredible exclusive videos. But as I watched it, it was very obvious to this person observer. Yes, and someone who has flipped I do, in a joking way, enjoy flipping the bird.
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Speaker 4: So yes, to whom jokingly you can you do that joking lead of people, I.
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Speaker 2: Do it to you jokingly?
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Speaker 3: Well, you called it flip gate.
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Speaker 4: It's only a flipgate to me, apparently because I'm the only one that can't see it. The video is out there, but even you don't have to examine the video, and we don't have to argue about the video. The White House is confirming what the President did, saying, quote, a lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous the response.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hilarious. They're saying, yeah, duh, he flipped them off.
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Speaker 2: Deal with it.
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Speaker 4: There are sometimes at the White House. I give them credit where credit's to. The tone was right, This was okay, not saying you should flip anybody off, but if you have to have an excuse for it.
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Speaker 1: They nailed it, and the union says that the worker has been suspended for heckling the president.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's within their rights.
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Speaker 1: Free speech is I guess only to a certain extent if you're an employee and a representative of a company. And if they think that it's inappropriate, which I think probably heckling the president would fall under that line. He has been suspended, and I would think maybe perhaps his job is on the line.
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Speaker 3: If the President has anything to do with it.
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Speaker 2: All right, next stuff on the Run.
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Speaker 1: Actor Timothy Bussfield expected to make his first court appearance today. We think this has been a story that has evolved over the last several days, and it's taken some twists and turns because at this point yesterday Busfield was at large and US marshalls were looking for him. But yesterday he turned himself into Albuquerque. He says he drove two thousand miles to turn himself in. He's facing two counts of criminal sexual contact with a minor.
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Speaker 4: Yes, he did have a video again obtained by TMZ. It looked like he was at his lawyer's office, but he said in that video only went about a minute or so but said I did not do anything to those little boys. That he will defend himself against what he says are outright lies. Meanwhile, his wife, Melissa Gilbert, I always turned to you because you have to put it in context of how iconic she is, and I always mess up.
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Speaker 1: Yes, who she was, Yes, Little House on the Prairie. She was Laura Ingalls Wilder, half Pint. She was the star of the show, a familiar face to so many people tral seventies and eighties, Absolutely a television icon. And so even when you see, unfortunately for her, Timothy Busfield's name, it's often stated it's Melissa Gilbert's husband, But he is an Emmy Award winning actor in and of his self himself, and his face is certainly familiar. It's just his name might not be a household name unfortunately until now for him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Melissa Gilbert did put out a statement yesterday, but it was through her attorneys, not exactly her words, but they said in the statement she stands with and supports her husband and will address the public at the appropriate time. They also acknowledged I didn't realize that this happens now. Every time there's some big story that these statements that certainly look real are attributed to someone and they get posted online. But they addressed that there's a bunch of fakes out there and nothing is from Melissa Go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They called the Deep AI fakes of her alleged statements or her screaking out you.
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Speaker 2: Even I thought this was interesting. This is where we are. When we saw the.
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Speaker 1: Timothy Bussfield video where he looks at Cameron says I didn't do anything to those little boys, you were like, I need to verify this isn't an AI video, Like we need to make sure this is him.
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Speaker 4: It's scary because yesterday I did this on a program we used. This is terrifying. I just we were doing the story about President Trump and Machado and the Nobel Peace Prize, and I just told this chatbot, make me a picture of Machado giving Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, and sure enough, in less than a minute, there was a photo that looked so real.
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Speaker 2: That is so scary.
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Speaker 3: It is terrible.
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Speaker 1: You can't trust anything you read. Already, we knew that we've been preaching that, but now you cannot trust anything you see, even a video, even a photo.
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Speaker 2: That that is some crap.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how people are going to navigate truth from here on.
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Speaker 4: As Ye, to your point, that was my first thought. I saw the video of him, but it appears to be real, and he reference I came out here to Albuquerque and pointing to his background which looked very bright, looked like the desert behind him. But yet from what I can tell, he is in jail this morning.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and he even said in that video, I hope I get out soon. So he was preparing it seemed to spend the night and then have a hearing today. Of course, we will continue to follow any developments in that case. But next up on the run, Keefer Sutherland accused of beating up a ride share driver. He got in the car, according to police, assaulted the driver. And what he's being charged with, and this is how they describe it. He's he made criminal threats.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, don't know what this was about. What could have happened? Why, don't know, But he was booked. He's been released on fifty thousand dollars bond. And we'll wait and we'll see on this one. It doesn't make a whole lot sense at this point what went down.
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Speaker 1: Look, he's had some problems with the law, a lot of them dealing with DUIs et cetera, alcohol fueled behavior. He went to jail in two thousand and seven, convicted in two thousand and four, so he's had several alcohol related arrests.
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Speaker 2: Don't know if that was.
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Speaker 3: The a suggestion of that in this one, is it?
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Speaker 1: No, But it happened after midnight getting into a ride share.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's just people are pointing his prior issues and wondering if maybe there is a connection.
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Speaker 4: Okay, that's I mean, that sucks. That's what folks do, and that's unfortunate and something like that stage with him, But he hasn't had any issues. He's had along and he hasn't had one in a long time. Your career and all that stuff was a while back. Have no idea what could have happened here, But yeah, I just don't want to eat. That's something whatever you do just dogs you the rest of your life. He'll never get away from. He can get a parking ticket and they'll say, well, yeah, back in nineteen ninety four.
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Speaker 2: It's true. We're a big key for Sutherland fans. Love twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Jack Bauer will always be Number one watched every single episode of that series.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Dilbert creator Scott Adams has died at the age of sixty eight. He had an aggressive form he described of prostate cancer and metastatic prostate cancer, and he passed away.
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Speaker 4: And his death became a point of some political contention yesterday, back and forth. Yes we find a reason to argue about anything, but yes, he of course behind Dilbert, which focused on office culture, I guess became an animated series as well. So it's been around. His nineteen eighty nine wildly successful. But a lot of newspapers dropped him in twenty twenty three because he did he expressed conservative views. That's not why they dropped him. But some of his views that he did come out with were extreme.
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Speaker 1: He called Black Americans a hate group and also encouraged white folks to distance themselves from black folk.
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Speaker 2: Get the hell away from black peops.
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Speaker 4: He said something. It's not just a conservative view, or he wasn't. It was a racist view because of that, but some people took issue. In one publication says disgraced Dilbert creator passes away like a lot of folks on the conservative side, like, why put that, Why are you suggesting that? Well, it's actually what happened. He lost, he said, eighty percent of his income after that whole controversy.
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Speaker 3: So a lot of folks got.
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Speaker 1: On board, promoted racist views and promoted racist behavior.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it wasn't beyond it was beyond just conservatives. All right, folks, we'll stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, Fifth Avenue has gone bankrupt, we'll explain what happened there. Also why the Pittsburgh Steelers need a coach for the first time in twenty years. My favorite boy band of all time is back. And before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin.
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Speaker 3: And we've just lost a piece of civil rights history.
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Speaker 1: Stare Welcome back everyone to this Wednesday morning run and news that SAX Fifth Avenue has gone bankrupt. SAX Global has filed for bankruptcy protection. This is the parent company of Sacks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. So you're talking about luxury fashion in peril significantly. Now stores are going to remain open, they say, but this is deeply concerning. You know, SAX opened in nineteen twenty four, So one hundred and fifty nine year old department store. It's a destination for tourists in Manhattan to see the flagship store of Sacksmith Avenue. It's windows decorated for Christmas. It's just a symbol of New York truly and luxury fashion.
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Speaker 2: So this is a big, big deal.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know they were.
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Speaker 4: All under the same umbrella, SASA, Marcus and Burgdorf.
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Speaker 1: And just recently, right they and now Nieman Marcus, the CEO is going to take over. The person who was in charge of saxonth Avenue on the job for just two weeks. He's now been let go. So this is a company he did a terrible.
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Speaker 2: Apparently those two weeks were really rough.
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Speaker 1: Obviously it was his fag's insane.
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Speaker 3: Right, join a place and it goes bankrupt.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 1: They did get a financial commitment of nearly two billion dollars, so that hopefully will get them past this tough point. But yeah, brick and mortar companies are having problems, retail companies having problems all around the globe.
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Speaker 2: But this is a sign of the times.
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Speaker 4: All right, continuing on the run here now, and what kind of sign of the Times. Is this that a coach who in twenty years coaching one NFL team never never had a losing season. Wow, But today he's out of a job. We're talking about Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin. Now he's stepped down. He wasn't fired, wasn't let go. He did have two years left on his contract. But he has been a staple on the sideline of the Pittsburgh Steelers, won a championship, won a super Bowl in his second year with the team.
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Speaker 3: Butt ropes.
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Speaker 4: He hasn't won a playoff game since twenty and ten years or so. His last seven playoff games he lost. So this was an issue people love and I mean love this guy.
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Speaker 1: And so so when you say he stepped down, though this was obviously a negotiated departure, it wasn't something he would have chosen, I would say, yes.
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Speaker 4: He maybe see that, maybe some writings on the wall, but also maybe it's time to move on that that city had one thing. You haven't won a super Bowl, but they've gone to the playoffs. The last seven times they went to the playoffs, they did not win a single playoff game. They got bounced, got it first round so that's that's kind of a big deal. But yet he'll be fine. Everybody wants to hire him, but apparently he's going to sit out the next season.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well, speaking of big news, this is you are very excited about your boys are back.
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Speaker 2: BTS is back. They have announced their world tour.
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Speaker 1: They had to take a year off basically to serve in the military.
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Speaker 2: Wait four years, it's because they time fly.
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Speaker 4: They kind of staggered when some of them went in and how but yeah, they had to do the duty in South Korea. Took the four years off their bag. This would be their first tour, yes, in four almost five years. I think it is thirty four cities, seventy nine shows, and I do I won't go to a show at all, but I love these guys.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine though, what it would be like to go, because the only experience we have is when we were on Good Morning America when they came on the show. To see the level of commitment from their fans, cam like camping out in Times Square, just it was extraordinary to see their fan base.
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Speaker 4: It was twenty seventeen in Las Vegas at an award show on the Red carpet with Monica Escapido from GMA, and we see people going crazy, girls fainting over a group of guys we'd never seen before. We had no idea who they were. She had the thought, you know what, let me go figure this out, went introduced herself, brought them over to us.
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Speaker 3: We did an interview with BTS.
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Speaker 2: We know, we know who they were.
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Speaker 4: Only one of them spoke good enough English at the time to do the interview, and that was my first introduction. They won an award that night. We go backstage. By that time, we're all friends.
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Speaker 3: Like, oh yeah, from the Red carpet who wanted to talk to us because nobody knew who they were.
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Speaker 4: So that's why I love them, not just their music, which is great, but I just always remember that experience. I have a place near and dear in my heart for BTS.
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Speaker 2: That's very, very, very excited, Yes, that story.
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Speaker 3: Very excited about BTS.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well for the final leg of our run.
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Speaker 1: Look, I it's remarkable what we are not taught in school, because this was a name that I did not know. Claude at Colvin before there was Rosa Parks, there was Claude at Colvin in nineteen fifty five, at the age of fifteen, she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, becoming a part of vil right's history, but not one that I read about.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, isn't this cool? And it's cool that you can be sitting here. A lot of people listening to us may not know the name until she passed away, but she has passed away, Claudee Colvin at the age of eighty six. She was fifteen years old in nineteen fifty five when she refused to give up her seat. Now, she, as the story goes, wasn't supposed to give her seat to a white woman. But you couldn't sit across the aisle from a white person at the time, so she was asked to get up and move. She did not. She was with another group of friends. She said, she just in the moment, just decided she wasn't going to do it. And that is a part of the history because this wasn't planned. So many, like the civil rights groups, were organizing finding the right candidate to bring a case to take on the Montgomery restrictions on the buses, and because she was fifteen, they several reasons she wasn't the right candidate, They didn't coordinate. She just did it on a whim, and in some ways that makes her the pioneer really a little more. I don't want to say take away from anybody else, but she did it on her own. She wasn't trying to make a statement, she wasn't trying to organize with some group. Just in the moment she said nope.
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Speaker 1: And did she spark the idea that this was a way too quietly but defiantly prove a point or to make a point.
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Speaker 4: But this boy the plan and the boycott that they wanted to go after it in court, and you gotta have a plaintiff who's the right candidate to put forward in front of people to make everybody go okay, I'll listen to that young woman or that little girl. And it determined she wasn't. She was a part of another case later on that was successful. But it's just cool that her story is different and you don't know her name, but what she did was in a lot of ways just as that even some would say, more heroic than anybody did on a bus.
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Speaker 1: It's sad to recognize that I only am learning about her in her passing, but certainly a part of history and her legacy is for us to know and to learn about her.
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Speaker 4: So the coolest things she was charges were dropped, but one stayed on the assault of a police officer. It was only expunged I think a few years ago, twenty twenty one. Wow, what a line from her. She said, here, I am eighty two and I'm finally not a juvenile delinquent.
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Speaker 3: That's cool.
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Speaker 2: That speaks to her just who she was. I love that. That's a very cool story.
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Speaker 4: All right, before we let you go, something we would like for you to consider it is our quote of the day. I will predict you will like this one Robes quote. You don't get what you want, you get what you prepare for. Have you heard some variation of that at some point? I've always heard people make the argument, who.
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Speaker 3: You know what? We've seen this happen before.
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Speaker 4: Been staying with someone saying, hey, do you have any ideas for blah blah blah? Would you like to dat da? And you don't have an answer?
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Speaker 3: Ready? Right.
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Speaker 4: I was taught from people throughout my life you always be ready for the moment, even dress for the moment. Been folks have missed out on opportunities because you're not dressed the right way.
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Speaker 3: You don't get what you want. You want the perfect mate, you want the perfect woman, perfect man. But here you are out somewhere. Oh I'm not ready. I'm not wearing the right thing. Oh be ready?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I love that. Be ready again. Very empowering.
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Speaker 1: And we always we always give away our power to other people, to events, to the weather, to whatever oh is. Because of this, we're always making excuses, but we're not making preparations. And I think that's cool because that actually does empower each of us when we think about life like that. It's what you prepare for. It's what you're ready for. It's not what's coming to you or what you should expect.
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Speaker 4: Yes, some thing's fall in your lap and you're not ready for them. You haven't had somebody come over to your house and you start scramming, Oh god, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: Ready to come Yes, lighting candles and clean things up.
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Speaker 4: Hey, what if that guest was Barack Obama? What if that guest with somebody? Are you going to say, oh my god, you can't come in because I'm not No, be prepared. Always take that with you Folks, you don't get what you want. You get what you prepare for. Robes, what are you prepared for today?
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Speaker 2: I'm prepared for work, love and laughter.
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Speaker 4: All right, folks, take that with you today. That'll be our quote. Two of today was again say it again, work love and laughter, work, love and laughter. With that, folks, enjoy your day. We always appreciate your running with us. I'm Tja amy Rovok.
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Speaker 2: We will run with you soon