Jan. 21, 2026
Morning Run: Trump In Switzerland, Polar Vortex, DOJ Subpoenas MN Officials, JD Vance to Minneapolis, U.S. Measles Status and Usha Vance Makes History
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, thanks for joining us for today's Morning run. It's Wednesday, Humpday, January twenty first.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. And as we are starting this recording, the President is arriving in Switzerland. Big speech expected there in the coming hours, but he's arriving a little late.
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Speaker 3: Not his fault, Nope, had nothing to do with him.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we've all had these issues. He did have some plain issues. We will get into and explain that. But as we are talking right now, we're looking at live picture of the President just touching down in Switzerland. Big speech there that we'll be talking about this morning. As always, we want to say good morning to you. Thank you as always for joining us. In that top right corner of your Apple podcast app, where you see our show page, that button this says subscribe. You can get our updates coming to you. Don't have to go hunting for them in robes. It seems like there have been a lot of updates from the President to Greenland, to the very high profile trials.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, we have had court trials on multiple ones, competing trials as we've been watching throughout the day. So yes, we've been updating all of those stories and are excited about bringing them to you as they happen.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so by all means, folks who don't want you to have to go hunting down our updates, subscribe and they'll be coming to you. But on the morning run this morning, it'll take us to the Twin Cities to Davos. Of course, this run will also take us to court rooms in Fairfax County, Virginia, as well as Albuquerque, New Mexico. And we'll make a stop to the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina today. But yes, we have to begin Rose, not on this leg of the run on the road, but in the skies above Washington, d C. Where there was absolutely initially a scary development.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, President Trump, as we mentioned, running behind schedule this morning. Yes, he has made his way to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He had a minor they call it a minor electrical issue thirty forty five minutes into the flight, so he had taken.
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Speaker 3: Off, was on route.
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Speaker 1: I think they took off just after nine thirty last evening, but they had to turn all the way around, and by the time they returned to Maryland it was already eleven oh seven pm. They had to switch planes, get the press core off the planes, get into a smaller plane. That put him three hours behind schedule. That's significant, kind.
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Speaker 2: Of on Clinton time. Now, I'm kidding. We love for and Clinton, but he was famously known as being late to a lot of things. But that was on him. It was a mechanical issue. But the president is late for what is anticipated a highly anticipated speech in which he is going to speak. Of course, we expecting to hear something about Greenland, but he's going to be making this speech in a room full of people that he has already challenged on the world stage when it comes to Greenland. As we are watching this right now, folks, literally we are seeing Michael Rubio, Carolyn Levitt, the White House Chief of Staff. They're just exiting Air Force one again a little delayed. We don't know if he'll still make his scheduled eight thirty am Eastern time speech, but he has made it. So keeping an eye on that today. Also keeping an eye robes on the stock market. The stock market took a hit yesterday and there is the President. As we speak, this seems weird. We're doing our old TV thing right now, right, but we can't show you the pictures.
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Speaker 3: We're just we're letting you know that we're on top of things. We are watching.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the President make his way very carefully down the steps of Air Force one. He's pointed out, of course, Joe Biden's missteps, so he is, I'm sure extra careful when he makes these grand entrances and exits off the plane.
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Speaker 2: I'm surprised we don't see more presidents fall down those steps. As much as they have to do it, they have to do it with cameras rolling. He's making some comments. He's again this is in Zurich, but he has to make his way to Dabbos, where the meeting has happened. He hopped out. It looks clearly cold as all get out there, but do helica. He is moving really slowly. He is wearing a long black trench coke, got a scarf around his neck. But he is making his way out to make that speech.
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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, so we will continue to follow that, bring you any new developments from Davos, Switzerland. But next up on the run, we returned home and we mentioned how cold it looks there in Switzerland. It feels like Switzerland for a lot of the country. This arctic air has moved in and it ain't going anywhere. As TJ wrote, it's going to make it self comfortable through the weekend, and we're all going to be uncomfortable because of it. Most of the country is being impacted by this. I hate this phrase, polar hortile. I hate it because I know what it means. It means we don't leave the apartment and I'm all getting cap and fever.
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Speaker 2: I thought you liked saying polar vortex.
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Speaker 3: It does have a nice ring to it, but I don't like the impact of it.
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Speaker 2: I'm an atmospheric river guy again, devastating. I'm just saying it's a fascinating meteorological phenomenon.
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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, if you're wondering what a polar vortex is, feel self explanatory. But it's a huge mass of revolving Arctic air that makes its way down from Canada and nips into our country.
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Speaker 2: So, folks, everybody, it feels like, is being impacted by this thing. But you go from the middle of the country all the way east and that's everybody being impacted. You're talking about hundreds of millions of Americans. But the Midwest, mid Atlantic, the South, Upper Midwest, the plains all getting hit with below freezing temperatures. The wind chills are down below zero in some places up to we're talking thirty below now, as far as the East Coast goes, most cities are not going to make it out of the twenties in the coming days.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we keep hearing all of these warnings from our local meteorologist about a blizzard or an impactful storm this weekend. But we are knowing that we all know that there is lake effects now on its way to the upper Midwest. They're saying up to another foot or two. They're not measuring it in inches, they're measuring it in feet, and they say that's coming in the next couple of days. And I believe that maybe our way as well. Dallas, Atlanta, parts of Alabama, parts of Mississippi all below freezing. This is unheard of. This could affect a lot of crops, a lot of I mean, and they don't these cities don't.
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Speaker 2: Have don't do this.
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Speaker 3: They don't have salt trucks.
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Speaker 1: They don't have ways to deal with any sort of freezing temperatures, ice, any potential freezing precipitation. We know, we lived in the South. We know it's it's an event when it gets this cold.
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Speaker 3: People don't know what to do.
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Speaker 2: What year was it Atlanta got an inch and a half of snow in the city shut down. Do you remember that?
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is recent, but when we moved.
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Speaker 1: I moved my family moved from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Atlanta in eighty five, eighty six, and I remember we were laughing because we used to get blizzards obviously in the Midwest, and when we moved to Atlanta, I.
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Speaker 3: Think it was eighty five. It was snow jam. Eighty five, Snow's coming.
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Speaker 1: It was an inch. The entire city school was canceled. We were all laughing.
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Speaker 2: I remember at the time Atlanta said they had I think three snowplows or something. It seems crazy that a major metropolitan area, but they had so few it was pretty absurd. All right, we'll contink you here on this Wednesday, right hump day run and we will head out to New Mexico, and actor Timothy Bussville is going to get to go home He's been held in Albuquerque since turning himself in last week to face two counts of improper contact with a minor.
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Speaker 1: Those allegations stemmed from twin boys who worked with him on a show he directed the cleaning lady and they claimed, yes, he tickled them, but then they say he touched him in inappropriate areas. So he had a pre trial detention hearing because the prosecutors wanted him to stay behind bars, calling him dangerous and a threat to the community that could not be contained with any any measures taking place if he were to be released, but the judge disagreed. There were so many supporters there for Timothy Busfield. His wife Melissa Gilbert was there in the courtroom and was very emotional, tears of joy and he when the judge said that he was going to release him on his own recognisance. But yes, the prosecutions the States asked to have him stay behind bars, was denied by that judge.
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Speaker 2: He let him out some conditions. He can't be around child unsupervised. He can travel, but he's being released on his own recognisance. Did not require him to put up any bails. Continuing on the run here now the prosecution has rested. The defense begins its case today in the so called O pair affair double murder trial.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this will be interesting.
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Speaker 1: We hope you know by now, if you've been listening to our feeds, you know that Brendan Banfield is accused of killing his wife and another man who he planned to frame for her murder. The prosecution claims he planned this with his O pair, who he was having an affair with. The prosecution's case took about a week, and the O pair, of course, notably went on the stand. That is their key witness, that is truly the cornerstone of their case. But the defense will call its first witnesses today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we anticipated witnesses. I haven't seen the witness list. Always the question of if the defendant is going to testify, Every defense attorney will tell you no, but you no, no, no, So we'll keep an eye on.
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Speaker 3: It's so funny.
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Speaker 1: It almost never happens. And yet every time there's a trial, will he or won't he? Or will she or won't she?
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Speaker 3: Testify?
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Speaker 1: And I feel like every single time it's a hard now always, but we always love to wonder what if would not be salacious? Sure, but it almost never happens all right, but we will keep our eye on that trial. Next up on the run, the DOJ is following through with its threats to go after a Minnesota officials the administration has publicly suggested are part of a conspiracy to obstruct ice operations in that state. So they have issued subpoenas for at least five officials. We're talking about Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye, We're talking about Governor Tim Waltz, A G. Keith Ellison, and the Saint Paul Mayer as well. These officials bring it on, we will not be intimidated. And so that is a significant development to consider that these folks who are running the state of Minnesota potentially are facing criminal charge.
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Speaker 2: It's an escalation. It's going in the wrong direction. Continuing here now more news out of Minneapolis. They're getting a high profile visitor tomorrow. Vice President Jade Vance expected to head to Minneapolis tomorrow, going to hold a round table with members of that community. Notable somebody this high up from the administration going, but also notable that he is the one who came out very early on and some interpret it as him blaming Renee Good for her own death. But he did say it was a tragedy of her own making. So interesting to see how he will be received there in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean it seems like he clearly was blaming the victim there, So that will be very interesting and we will keep our eye on that. But next up on the Run, we might be about to lose our designation as a measles free country. We talked about this on the Morning Run a month or so ago when Canada law its status, and we certainly seem to be headed in that direction. And yes, we were certified measles free for twenty six straight years.
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Speaker 3: Vaccines are a huge part of this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I didn't think this was a thing we were still dealing with or it would come back, But it has come back and there are reasons for that. So measles free designation, we've had it with twenty five plus years. What does that mean. It means is there's no single chain spread for twelve months. To make that make sense, you remember we were here a year ago talking about the outbreak in Texas.
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Speaker 1: YEP.
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Speaker 2: So now we have current outbreaks going on still in Utah, Arizona, South Carolina. If they're able to find a way to say that Texas outbreak is some way connected to the other outtame strain. Basically that means boom. Then that's twelve months and we are losing our designation.
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Speaker 3: Man, And you mentioned South Carolina.
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Speaker 1: They just announced that they have eighty eight new cases as of yesterday. Five hundred and thirty eight folks are in quarantine right now. Fifteen schools have kids in quarantine. And yes, I mentioned it at the beginning of this, but lower vaccine rates are to blame. They say, if you dip below a certain percentage, and even if it's I think it's ninety percent.
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Speaker 2: Hi, it's surprising.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you'd think, oh, ninety percent vaccinated, we're good. No, I think it has to be like ninety three or ninety four percent. There's some actual statistic number where people who study this. No, that's when we're safe when you dip below that in some of these communities.
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Speaker 3: And we're seeing this more and more.
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Speaker 1: Of course, with rfk's RFK Junior's initiative about questioning vaccines and their safety, this is unfortunately going in the wrong direction for people who study diseases like this, and certainly it's a big concern for a lot of folks.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, will stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, a kid wants to leave college. He wants to leave Duke Duke is suing to keep him in college. We'll explain. Also, we got some more Jdvans news. Well it's really news about Jdvans and his wife.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, Welcome back everybody to your Wednesday morning run. And next up on the run, a college quarterback is being sued by his own school. Yes, we're talking about Duke University versus Darien Mensa. Mensa led them to the conference title and they do not want to lose.
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Speaker 2: Him because they haven't won a conference title outright since like the nineteen sixties. So they finally won one. And what happens the quarterback. Yeah, I'm good, I've led this team. I should go to a bigger football school than Duke. This is a basketball school. Okay, fine, he made that calculation. He wants to transfer, made the announcement already. The problem is that he has signed a lucrative name image and like this deal yes and nil deal with Duke that runs through the end of next season. Duke is taking a stand and saying, this kid is acting like he has no oblome gation. The Duke University this is where we are. We're going to see this more. We've seen this a couple of times already in colleges. But he signed a deal that's worth four million dollars a year.
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Speaker 3: Do you see my jaw drop? Look?
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Speaker 1: I know that this is all new college students, college athletes being able to accept money, endorsements, et cetera.
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Speaker 3: But I didn't realize a college kid getting four million dollars a year.
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Speaker 2: The stud quarterbacks, no doubt, are making that money, and you are signing professional contracts. And now they are treating him like a professional as they signed a deal here, it is you need to stay here. He's made a calculation. He could probably go make money at a bigger football school. In particular Miami is where they say he's dyeing because Carson Carson Beck, he just has a role in all of that way.
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Speaker 1: So Carson Beck is going out with an interception pass that lost in the National Championships.
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Speaker 2: The breaks, Oh.
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Speaker 1: I'm not upset about it at all, But the question is what do you think about him?
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Speaker 3: This mensa trying to get out of a contract he signed.
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Speaker 2: But this is the thing, this is where we're gonna this is where we land. You don't want to be amateurs, you want to be professionals. Fine, I think they should be compensated. I think a kid making four million dollars a year as a junior in college is problematic. But okay, if I'm going to accept that, Okay, you signed it exactly, so, yes, this is a professional organization. Now you signed a contract. Yes, they sued their own quarterback. That's remarkable.
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Speaker 3: But I'm curious.
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Speaker 1: So if they win, right and he has to stay, how's that going to work on the field.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna have to concede, and somebody's gonna have to get in his ear and say, yes, you need to do this. And he is going to want to increase his NFL stock so he'll go play. Be fine. There'll be some hurt feelings, but they need to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that seems like the right thing to do, which is to say no, you need to honor your contract, because every kid is going to do that exactly. Every kid gets recruited. Now it's not just okay, where can I who's going to be your special teams coach?
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Speaker 2: No's how much money can I make?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, show.
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Speaker 2: Me the money.
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Speaker 1: So this is yeah, I do too, because because that's part of the reason why we love college sports. There is a joy to the playing. It's not necessarily just for money. It's for team, it's for school spirit. It's yeah, it's that team mentality versus how much money can I get? Oh well, these are the these are the days that we're living in now, all right, but let's move on to happier news. On the final leg of our run, Jade Vans making history, or maybe more so his wife is He and his wife Usha are having a baby. This is very exciting news.
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Speaker 2: This is we just don't see this.
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Speaker 3: It's the first time ever a second lady has been pregnant.
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Speaker 2: Pregnant, yeah, because usually they're past the child.
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Speaker 3: I mean she is forty. I mean that is of note.
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Speaker 2: What do they say there was a word? I mean, doctors will tell you after thirty.
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Speaker 1: Thirty five it's a geriatric pregnancy and it's a high risk pregnancy. After the age of thirty five, you are instead to jerry atric pregnancy, which is a horrible term.
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Speaker 2: But yes, it is so cool to see. But they have very young kids. Eight, five and four, two boys and one girl right now, But I didn't see that she happened.
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Speaker 3: It's a boy in July. Do in July.
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Speaker 1: And this is so cool because I was fascinated by the fact that she's the first second lady to ever be pregnant or have a baby in the White House. And you have to go back like this is crazy to the eighteen hundreds es Grover Cleveland is the his wife was the only first lady to ever have a baby in the White House. Yes, our politicians want to get to that level, tend to be much older. And you know, Jackie, Oh, that was the other thing. She did have a baby, but sadly Patrick I believe was the name of the baby. But the baby died a few days later, I believe. So she was the only other first lady to have had ad a baby.
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Speaker 2: I just think that's really cool to see that at the White House. I'm always excited about birthing kids.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, Carolyn Levitt's pregnant.
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Speaker 1: This is just she's doing. May Usha's due in July. There is a lot to celebrate. No matter what you think politics acide. This is a beautiful, wonderful, happy, exciting story all.
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Speaker 2: Well, before we let you go on this Wednesday, something we would like for you to consider it is our quote of the day. This is what I have for you today, Ropes quote. If everyone around you is singing your praises, you might be surrounded by enemies. You need people who love you enough to tell you you're screwing up. Now, there are a couple of ways to take that, but it's a nice reminder sometimes. Always tell folks that if you're the most successful one in your group, you need a new friend group. If nobody's criticizing you, you are surrounded by enemies who are just waiting. You gotta have and you gotta give them the right and they have to know that they can tell you, hey, stop doing that, you're screwing up, and you have to listen. That's love, that's friendship, and that's how close you.
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Speaker 3: Need to be to somebody, you know.
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Speaker 1: People don't think about that very often, and people are conflict of voids, I think a lot of times. But if you think about the people who you're most honest with, it's the people you love the most. Your partner, your spouse, maybe your children for sure, but you love them enough to try and guide them or at least let them know when they're off path.
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Speaker 3: That does make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 2: So just a little reminder sometimes about who's around you and what they're doing around you. But your quote of the day, folks, if everyone around you is singing your praise, as you might be surrounded by enemies, you need people who love you enough to tell you you are screwing up.
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Speaker 3: Dare I ask where you got that?
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Speaker 2: I didn't. I'm not sure you know what I'll tell you know, I'll be honest with you all online. I've been doing the quotes here past couple of months now, and I have just piles and piles of quotes I just collect over the years. The last two weeks I've rediscovered a file I had for a couple of commencement speeches I gave years ago, and they are just chock full of quotes. Yeah, so I've been playing. I've been all right.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think they've been fantastic.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well cool, Well, welko, appreciate you running with us. Hope you've enjoyed the quotes.
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Speaker 3: Again.
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Speaker 2: We will be giving some updates today for sure. A lot happening in the news, So by all, means keep an eye on our fee. But for right now, I am t J.
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Speaker 1: Holts and I'm Amy Robock. We hope you have a wonderful Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, thanks for joining us for today's Morning run. It's Wednesday, Humpday, January twenty first.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ Holmes. And as we are starting this recording, the President is arriving in Switzerland. Big speech expected there in the coming hours, but he's arriving a little late.
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Speaker 3: Not his fault, Nope, had nothing to do with him.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we've all had these issues. He did have some plain issues. We will get into and explain that. But as we are talking right now, we're looking at live picture of the President just touching down in Switzerland. Big speech there that we'll be talking about this morning. As always, we want to say good morning to you. Thank you as always for joining us. In that top right corner of your Apple podcast app, where you see our show page, that button this says subscribe. You can get our updates coming to you. Don't have to go hunting for them in robes. It seems like there have been a lot of updates from the President to Greenland, to the very high profile trials.
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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, we have had court trials on multiple ones, competing trials as we've been watching throughout the day. So yes, we've been updating all of those stories and are excited about bringing them to you as they happen.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so by all means, folks who don't want you to have to go hunting down our updates, subscribe and they'll be coming to you. But on the morning run this morning, it'll take us to the Twin Cities to Davos. Of course, this run will also take us to court rooms in Fairfax County, Virginia, as well as Albuquerque, New Mexico. And we'll make a stop to the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina today. But yes, we have to begin Rose, not on this leg of the run on the road, but in the skies above Washington, d C. Where there was absolutely initially a scary development.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, President Trump, as we mentioned, running behind schedule this morning. Yes, he has made his way to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He had a minor they call it a minor electrical issue thirty forty five minutes into the flight, so he had taken.
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Speaker 3: Off, was on route.
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Speaker 1: I think they took off just after nine thirty last evening, but they had to turn all the way around, and by the time they returned to Maryland it was already eleven oh seven pm. They had to switch planes, get the press core off the planes, get into a smaller plane. That put him three hours behind schedule. That's significant, kind.
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Speaker 2: Of on Clinton time. Now, I'm kidding. We love for and Clinton, but he was famously known as being late to a lot of things. But that was on him. It was a mechanical issue. But the president is late for what is anticipated a highly anticipated speech in which he is going to speak. Of course, we expecting to hear something about Greenland, but he's going to be making this speech in a room full of people that he has already challenged on the world stage when it comes to Greenland. As we are watching this right now, folks, literally we are seeing Michael Rubio, Carolyn Levitt, the White House Chief of Staff. They're just exiting Air Force one again a little delayed. We don't know if he'll still make his scheduled eight thirty am Eastern time speech, but he has made it. So keeping an eye on that today. Also keeping an eye robes on the stock market. The stock market took a hit yesterday and there is the President. As we speak, this seems weird. We're doing our old TV thing right now, right, but we can't show you the pictures.
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Speaker 3: We're just we're letting you know that we're on top of things. We are watching.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the President make his way very carefully down the steps of Air Force one. He's pointed out, of course, Joe Biden's missteps, so he is, I'm sure extra careful when he makes these grand entrances and exits off the plane.
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Speaker 2: I'm surprised we don't see more presidents fall down those steps. As much as they have to do it, they have to do it with cameras rolling. He's making some comments. He's again this is in Zurich, but he has to make his way to Dabbos, where the meeting has happened. He hopped out. It looks clearly cold as all get out there, but do helica. He is moving really slowly. He is wearing a long black trench coke, got a scarf around his neck. But he is making his way out to make that speech.
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Speaker 1: Yes, all right, so we will continue to follow that, bring you any new developments from Davos, Switzerland. But next up on the run, we returned home and we mentioned how cold it looks there in Switzerland. It feels like Switzerland for a lot of the country. This arctic air has moved in and it ain't going anywhere. As TJ wrote, it's going to make it self comfortable through the weekend, and we're all going to be uncomfortable because of it. Most of the country is being impacted by this. I hate this phrase, polar hortile. I hate it because I know what it means. It means we don't leave the apartment and I'm all getting cap and fever.
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Speaker 2: I thought you liked saying polar vortex.
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Speaker 3: It does have a nice ring to it, but I don't like the impact of it.
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Speaker 2: I'm an atmospheric river guy again, devastating. I'm just saying it's a fascinating meteorological phenomenon.
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Speaker 3: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 1: So anyway, if you're wondering what a polar vortex is, feel self explanatory. But it's a huge mass of revolving Arctic air that makes its way down from Canada and nips into our country.
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Speaker 2: So, folks, everybody, it feels like, is being impacted by this thing. But you go from the middle of the country all the way east and that's everybody being impacted. You're talking about hundreds of millions of Americans. But the Midwest, mid Atlantic, the South, Upper Midwest, the plains all getting hit with below freezing temperatures. The wind chills are down below zero in some places up to we're talking thirty below now, as far as the East Coast goes, most cities are not going to make it out of the twenties in the coming days.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we keep hearing all of these warnings from our local meteorologist about a blizzard or an impactful storm this weekend. But we are knowing that we all know that there is lake effects now on its way to the upper Midwest. They're saying up to another foot or two. They're not measuring it in inches, they're measuring it in feet, and they say that's coming in the next couple of days. And I believe that maybe our way as well. Dallas, Atlanta, parts of Alabama, parts of Mississippi all below freezing. This is unheard of. This could affect a lot of crops, a lot of I mean, and they don't these cities don't.
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Speaker 2: Have don't do this.
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Speaker 3: They don't have salt trucks.
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Speaker 1: They don't have ways to deal with any sort of freezing temperatures, ice, any potential freezing precipitation. We know, we lived in the South. We know it's it's an event when it gets this cold.
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Speaker 3: People don't know what to do.
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Speaker 2: What year was it Atlanta got an inch and a half of snow in the city shut down. Do you remember that?
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is recent, but when we moved.
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Speaker 1: I moved my family moved from Saint Louis, Missouri, to Atlanta in eighty five, eighty six, and I remember we were laughing because we used to get blizzards obviously in the Midwest, and when we moved to Atlanta, I.
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Speaker 3: Think it was eighty five. It was snow jam. Eighty five, Snow's coming.
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Speaker 1: It was an inch. The entire city school was canceled. We were all laughing.
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Speaker 2: I remember at the time Atlanta said they had I think three snowplows or something. It seems crazy that a major metropolitan area, but they had so few it was pretty absurd. All right, we'll contink you here on this Wednesday, right hump day run and we will head out to New Mexico, and actor Timothy Bussville is going to get to go home He's been held in Albuquerque since turning himself in last week to face two counts of improper contact with a minor.
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Speaker 1: Those allegations stemmed from twin boys who worked with him on a show he directed the cleaning lady and they claimed, yes, he tickled them, but then they say he touched him in inappropriate areas. So he had a pre trial detention hearing because the prosecutors wanted him to stay behind bars, calling him dangerous and a threat to the community that could not be contained with any any measures taking place if he were to be released, but the judge disagreed. There were so many supporters there for Timothy Busfield. His wife Melissa Gilbert was there in the courtroom and was very emotional, tears of joy and he when the judge said that he was going to release him on his own recognisance. But yes, the prosecutions the States asked to have him stay behind bars, was denied by that judge.
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Speaker 2: He let him out some conditions. He can't be around child unsupervised. He can travel, but he's being released on his own recognisance. Did not require him to put up any bails. Continuing on the run here now the prosecution has rested. The defense begins its case today in the so called O pair affair double murder trial.
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Speaker 3: Yes, this will be interesting.
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Speaker 1: We hope you know by now, if you've been listening to our feeds, you know that Brendan Banfield is accused of killing his wife and another man who he planned to frame for her murder. The prosecution claims he planned this with his O pair, who he was having an affair with. The prosecution's case took about a week, and the O pair, of course, notably went on the stand. That is their key witness, that is truly the cornerstone of their case. But the defense will call its first witnesses today.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we anticipated witnesses. I haven't seen the witness list. Always the question of if the defendant is going to testify, Every defense attorney will tell you no, but you no, no, no, So we'll keep an eye on.
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Speaker 3: It's so funny.
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Speaker 1: It almost never happens. And yet every time there's a trial, will he or won't he? Or will she or won't she?
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Speaker 3: Testify?
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Speaker 1: And I feel like every single time it's a hard now always, but we always love to wonder what if would not be salacious? Sure, but it almost never happens all right, but we will keep our eye on that trial. Next up on the run, the DOJ is following through with its threats to go after a Minnesota officials the administration has publicly suggested are part of a conspiracy to obstruct ice operations in that state. So they have issued subpoenas for at least five officials. We're talking about Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye, We're talking about Governor Tim Waltz, A G. Keith Ellison, and the Saint Paul Mayer as well. These officials bring it on, we will not be intimidated. And so that is a significant development to consider that these folks who are running the state of Minnesota potentially are facing criminal charge.
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Speaker 2: It's an escalation. It's going in the wrong direction. Continuing here now more news out of Minneapolis. They're getting a high profile visitor tomorrow. Vice President Jade Vance expected to head to Minneapolis tomorrow, going to hold a round table with members of that community. Notable somebody this high up from the administration going, but also notable that he is the one who came out very early on and some interpret it as him blaming Renee Good for her own death. But he did say it was a tragedy of her own making. So interesting to see how he will be received there in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean it seems like he clearly was blaming the victim there, So that will be very interesting and we will keep our eye on that. But next up on the Run, we might be about to lose our designation as a measles free country. We talked about this on the Morning Run a month or so ago when Canada law its status, and we certainly seem to be headed in that direction. And yes, we were certified measles free for twenty six straight years.
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Speaker 3: Vaccines are a huge part of this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I didn't think this was a thing we were still dealing with or it would come back, But it has come back and there are reasons for that. So measles free designation, we've had it with twenty five plus years. What does that mean. It means is there's no single chain spread for twelve months. To make that make sense, you remember we were here a year ago talking about the outbreak in Texas.
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Speaker 1: YEP.
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Speaker 2: So now we have current outbreaks going on still in Utah, Arizona, South Carolina. If they're able to find a way to say that Texas outbreak is some way connected to the other outtame strain. Basically that means boom. Then that's twelve months and we are losing our designation.
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Speaker 3: Man, And you mentioned South Carolina.
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Speaker 1: They just announced that they have eighty eight new cases as of yesterday. Five hundred and thirty eight folks are in quarantine right now. Fifteen schools have kids in quarantine. And yes, I mentioned it at the beginning of this, but lower vaccine rates are to blame. They say, if you dip below a certain percentage, and even if it's I think it's ninety percent.
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Speaker 2: Hi, it's surprising.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you'd think, oh, ninety percent vaccinated, we're good. No, I think it has to be like ninety three or ninety four percent. There's some actual statistic number where people who study this. No, that's when we're safe when you dip below that in some of these communities.
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Speaker 3: And we're seeing this more and more.
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Speaker 1: Of course, with rfk's RFK Junior's initiative about questioning vaccines and their safety, this is unfortunately going in the wrong direction for people who study diseases like this, and certainly it's a big concern for a lot of folks.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, will stay with us here on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, a kid wants to leave college. He wants to leave Duke Duke is suing to keep him in college. We'll explain. Also, we got some more Jdvans news. Well it's really news about Jdvans and his wife.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, Welcome back everybody to your Wednesday morning run. And next up on the run, a college quarterback is being sued by his own school. Yes, we're talking about Duke University versus Darien Mensa. Mensa led them to the conference title and they do not want to lose.
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Speaker 2: Him because they haven't won a conference title outright since like the nineteen sixties. So they finally won one. And what happens the quarterback. Yeah, I'm good, I've led this team. I should go to a bigger football school than Duke. This is a basketball school. Okay, fine, he made that calculation. He wants to transfer, made the announcement already. The problem is that he has signed a lucrative name image and like this deal yes and nil deal with Duke that runs through the end of next season. Duke is taking a stand and saying, this kid is acting like he has no oblome gation. The Duke University this is where we are. We're going to see this more. We've seen this a couple of times already in colleges. But he signed a deal that's worth four million dollars a year.
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Speaker 3: Do you see my jaw drop? Look?
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Speaker 1: I know that this is all new college students, college athletes being able to accept money, endorsements, et cetera.
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Speaker 3: But I didn't realize a college kid getting four million dollars a year.
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Speaker 2: The stud quarterbacks, no doubt, are making that money, and you are signing professional contracts. And now they are treating him like a professional as they signed a deal here, it is you need to stay here. He's made a calculation. He could probably go make money at a bigger football school. In particular Miami is where they say he's dyeing because Carson Carson Beck, he just has a role in all of that way.
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Speaker 1: So Carson Beck is going out with an interception pass that lost in the National Championships.
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Speaker 2: The breaks, Oh.
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Speaker 1: I'm not upset about it at all, But the question is what do you think about him?
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Speaker 3: This mensa trying to get out of a contract he signed.
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Speaker 2: But this is the thing, this is where we're gonna this is where we land. You don't want to be amateurs, you want to be professionals. Fine, I think they should be compensated. I think a kid making four million dollars a year as a junior in college is problematic. But okay, if I'm going to accept that, Okay, you signed it exactly, so, yes, this is a professional organization. Now you signed a contract. Yes, they sued their own quarterback. That's remarkable.
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Speaker 3: But I'm curious.
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Speaker 1: So if they win, right and he has to stay, how's that going to work on the field.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna have to concede, and somebody's gonna have to get in his ear and say, yes, you need to do this. And he is going to want to increase his NFL stock so he'll go play. Be fine. There'll be some hurt feelings, but they need to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that seems like the right thing to do, which is to say no, you need to honor your contract, because every kid is going to do that exactly. Every kid gets recruited. Now it's not just okay, where can I who's going to be your special teams coach?
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Speaker 2: No's how much money can I make?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, show.
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Speaker 2: Me the money.
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Speaker 1: So this is yeah, I do too, because because that's part of the reason why we love college sports. There is a joy to the playing. It's not necessarily just for money. It's for team, it's for school spirit. It's yeah, it's that team mentality versus how much money can I get? Oh well, these are the these are the days that we're living in now, all right, but let's move on to happier news. On the final leg of our run, Jade Vans making history, or maybe more so his wife is He and his wife Usha are having a baby. This is very exciting news.
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Speaker 2: This is we just don't see this.
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Speaker 3: It's the first time ever a second lady has been pregnant.
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Speaker 2: Pregnant, yeah, because usually they're past the child.
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Speaker 3: I mean she is forty. I mean that is of note.
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Speaker 2: What do they say there was a word? I mean, doctors will tell you after thirty.
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Speaker 1: Thirty five it's a geriatric pregnancy and it's a high risk pregnancy. After the age of thirty five, you are instead to jerry atric pregnancy, which is a horrible term.
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Speaker 2: But yes, it is so cool to see. But they have very young kids. Eight, five and four, two boys and one girl right now, But I didn't see that she happened.
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Speaker 3: It's a boy in July. Do in July.
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Speaker 1: And this is so cool because I was fascinated by the fact that she's the first second lady to ever be pregnant or have a baby in the White House. And you have to go back like this is crazy to the eighteen hundreds es Grover Cleveland is the his wife was the only first lady to ever have a baby in the White House. Yes, our politicians want to get to that level, tend to be much older. And you know, Jackie, Oh, that was the other thing. She did have a baby, but sadly Patrick I believe was the name of the baby. But the baby died a few days later, I believe. So she was the only other first lady to have had ad a baby.
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Speaker 2: I just think that's really cool to see that at the White House. I'm always excited about birthing kids.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, Carolyn Levitt's pregnant.
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Speaker 1: This is just she's doing. May Usha's due in July. There is a lot to celebrate. No matter what you think politics acide. This is a beautiful, wonderful, happy, exciting story all.
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Speaker 2: Well, before we let you go on this Wednesday, something we would like for you to consider it is our quote of the day. This is what I have for you today, Ropes quote. If everyone around you is singing your praises, you might be surrounded by enemies. You need people who love you enough to tell you you're screwing up. Now, there are a couple of ways to take that, but it's a nice reminder sometimes. Always tell folks that if you're the most successful one in your group, you need a new friend group. If nobody's criticizing you, you are surrounded by enemies who are just waiting. You gotta have and you gotta give them the right and they have to know that they can tell you, hey, stop doing that, you're screwing up, and you have to listen. That's love, that's friendship, and that's how close you.
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Speaker 3: Need to be to somebody, you know.
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Speaker 1: People don't think about that very often, and people are conflict of voids, I think a lot of times. But if you think about the people who you're most honest with, it's the people you love the most. Your partner, your spouse, maybe your children for sure, but you love them enough to try and guide them or at least let them know when they're off path.
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Speaker 3: That does make a lot of sense.
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Speaker 2: So just a little reminder sometimes about who's around you and what they're doing around you. But your quote of the day, folks, if everyone around you is singing your praise, as you might be surrounded by enemies, you need people who love you enough to tell you you are screwing up.
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Speaker 3: Dare I ask where you got that?
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Speaker 2: I didn't. I'm not sure you know what I'll tell you know, I'll be honest with you all online. I've been doing the quotes here past couple of months now, and I have just piles and piles of quotes I just collect over the years. The last two weeks I've rediscovered a file I had for a couple of commencement speeches I gave years ago, and they are just chock full of quotes. Yeah, so I've been playing. I've been all right.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think they've been fantastic.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well cool, Well, welko, appreciate you running with us. Hope you've enjoyed the quotes.
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Speaker 3: Again.
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Speaker 2: We will be giving some updates today for sure. A lot happening in the news, So by all, means keep an eye on our fee. But for right now, I am t J.
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Speaker 1: Holts and I'm Amy Robock. We hope you have a wonderful Wednesday.