Nov. 26, 2025

Morning Run: Trump ❤️ Kash, Russia Ukraine Peace, Football Coach Manhunt, Etan Patz Trial, Louvre Heist Arrests, Campbell’s Soup Exec and Trump Turkey Pardons

Morning Run: Trump ❤️ Kash, Russia Ukraine Peace, Football Coach Manhunt, Etan Patz Trial, Louvre Heist Arrests, Campbell’s Soup Exec and Trump Turkey Pardons

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

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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 today's morning run. It's Wednesday, November twenty sixth. That makes it Thanksgiving Eve. Hello everyone. I'm Amy Robot and I'm.

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Speaker 1: TJ Holmes and Thanksgiving Eve. Yes, it means we're just one day away robes from getting the okay to play my favorite Christmas movie.

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Speaker 2: Oh. I thought you were gonna say that we get the ok to eat carbs.

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Speaker 1: No, oh no, no, I meat, I eating carbs tomorrow.

00:00:34
Speaker 2: Oh I'm eating carbs tomorrow.

00:00:35
Speaker 1: Who you do you boo boo? But yes, you know, as soon as the meal is served. I got die Hard on from the background, and it does not stop playing until January one. Why are you making the face you're supposed to? I thought you enjoyed this annual tradition.

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Speaker 2: I like watching you get excited.

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Speaker 1: I am very very excited about that. But wherever you are, many of you are on the road, many of you are in an airport, wherever you might be, hope you are getting you're going safely and maybe even patiently. We probably should get folks their heads up. If you got some Campbell's soup and your meal this Thanksgiving. This is you brought this to my attention to day or so ago. This is the Is it funny? A Campbell's CEO says the food is unhealthy. It's crap.

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Speaker 2: That's a nice way to put it. He said it much more vulgarly, if that's a word. But yes, we actually will tell you about it in the morning run. We're gonna do a whole other podcast on it because this thing was recorded and it's nuts. You just we need to spend a little time on this story later today.

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Speaker 1: Oh but folks, that's always top right corner of that Apple podcast app. Click that button that says follow so we can get our updates as we have them, and there are plenty, it seems these days. Ropes.

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Speaker 2: That's right, well, joining us for the run this morning. We have Cash Betel, Greta Thunberg, Mark Kelly, and four French thieves. Plus we have updates on that botchulism in baby formula outbreak, the missing Virginia football coach who is now considered a fugitive, and the murder of eight and Pats. But we have to talk about the weather.

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Speaker 1: See that's on everybody's mind obviously, everybody's trying to get somewhere, and it's going to be kind of a mess for folks track if you're on the road, which overwhelmingly the majority of people are. But there's a lot of snow and rain and wind and a mess and a lot of places. But you look at that map and it looks like a kid has been playing on the weather map, because literally not quite half, but certainly more than a third is covered with pink and white and blues, and it's just rain and snow all over the place. We got it, which he says winter storm warnings were infect in places like Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and some of that continues throughout the day to day.

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Speaker 2: I always remember from working in local news, when your local weathercaster or meteorologists calls it interesting weather map, you know you're in for some issues. So, yeah, there are two storm systems. One is over the Ohio Valley. It brought significant rain to the northeast. We saw that last night. And then it's bringing winds and heavy snow to the Midwest and Great Lakes Minnesota getting an inch of snow an hour. But dare I say, those folks, those hardy folks are used to it. Oh yeah, my mom and dad lived there for thirteen years. I visited them in December once. Once I visited them in December.

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Speaker 1: See, they think it's funny we're reporting about their weather because it sounds extraordinarily. US continue to hear all the run though this is good news. There are some good signals coming out of these talks to end the Russia Ukraine War. Well, the end could be near because US officials are telling the likes of NBC and CBS News that Ukraine has agreed to a peace proposal. This was the plan that was pushed by President Trump.

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Speaker 2: High ranking US and Ukrainian officials have been meeting over the past couple of days, and now President Trump says he will dispatch his Special ENVOYE. Steve Whitcoff, we know his name well to Russia. He's going to meet with President Putin with the hopes of finalizing this deal. This obviously would be huge. This is something Trump has been trying to get in place. Didn't you say at one point he'd get it done in seven days once he became president.

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Speaker 1: But he said it was harder than I thought he did.

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Speaker 2: He did a rare admission that he maybe misjudged the difficulty level, but look, this is this is good.

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Speaker 1: News right now. This is a big deal. Has been fast developing and breaking developments this week. So that's your update there. And update also about the FBI wanting to now interview those six senators who made a video telling members of the military to disobey illegal orders. Remember this president really got annoyed by this video. Of course, he's been sending troops to different streets all over the country, but they put this video together, and he said it was seditious and reminded us all that sedition was punishable by death. He took it that series.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and so Democrats say they have been contacted by the FBI to schedule their interviews. I cannot even imagine what that phone call was like. And we should mention Trump did back off calling for these six lawmakers death, however, but he has maintained and has not minced words, that he thinks they should all be in jail. All right, Senator Mark Kelly among those six, But he is actually facing something beyond jail. He's actually facing his own separate review.

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Speaker 1: This is wild. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseeth has asked the Navy Secretary to review the video for quote, potentially unlawful conduct. We're not exactly sure what that means, but the Defense Department did put out in social media a couple days ago talking about that video and raise the possibility of bringing him back from military service, which they can do because he retired, or senior officer bring him back just to court martialal is what they're talking about. But this review they're asking for now is supposed to be due on December tenth at the latest.

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Speaker 2: All right, Next up on the run, President Trump says he wants to keep his cash with a K. The White House is responding to media reports that Trump was considering replacing his FBI director Cash Bettel.

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Speaker 1: That was the line I was only going to give to you when I said this morning.

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Speaker 2: That's right up my alley. You know I love a good folks.

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Speaker 1: I was sitting across from her riding that and I said, I got a line for you this morning, And you know what I liked? That was it? All well. The network formerly known as MSNBC cited three sources saying that Patel might be on his way out. The White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt responded on social media, saying she actually read the headline to President Trump, who then immediately called Patel over for a picture, saying, let's show them you're doing a good job. And they took the pick and posted it. So there's a as good of endorsement you can get.

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Speaker 2: All smiles, all right. Next up on the Run, we have an update on a story we told you about yesterday. That manhunt is still underway for high school football coach in Virginia. We're talking about forty six year old Travis Turner.

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Speaker 1: This was a bizarre, a very mysterious story from the beginning. He's been missing since the last week. Police weren't saying initially why they were looking for him, but they put a lot of resources into it, but say he wasn't they didn't want him for a rest. Well, they changed their tune yesterday saying, in fact, he is wanted on ten felony counts having to do with possession of child pornography and using a computer to solicit a minor. Again, Rose, you talked about and looking into his background. This is a hometown boy, a hometown hero, and now such a part of the community and this is devastating. Yeah, he's still missing in a witted area and they've been looking for him with drones and dogs and everything.

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Speaker 2: So this is day six now, And yeah, this is a town Appalachia, Virginia in the Tri state area. Two thousand people in this town. They have long history. So yes, we actually did a podcast right before this the full story. It really is fascinating and frankly devastating for this community. But we'll keep our eyes on what happens with that story. But in the meantime, next up on the run another story that has plagued specifically New York City for decades. The man who was previously convicted of kidnapping and murdering eight and Pats will now be retried eight and Pats. If you think about it, and if you google his name, you will see that picture and you will recognize me because this is the case, one of the most famous abduction cases that actually started the movement for child missing children putting their pictures on milk carton's. Literally ate and Pats's face was on a milk carton and you'll recognize it when you see it. But this happened in nineteen seventy nine. He was walking to his school bus. He was six years old in Soho.

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Speaker 1: Well, and I'm trying to I can't remember Adam Walsh. Yes, right, those two kids changed law enforcement, they changed, their abductions changed, and it really has a lot to do with high profile here. But the Walsh they wouldn't let it go right and became their mission. But they really did change how we view child abduction, child reduction, can missing persons. Yes, they actually did so. Yes, that's explaining and just he's a part of history if you will. But the guy who was convicted and sentenced for his death in twenty seventeen, well that conviction was actually overturned earlier this year. They kept him in jail though, as prosecutors were deciding what they were wanting to do. But Pedro Hernandez is his name, he's sixty four. Now he is going to stay in custody as they plan now to retry him. This is going to be incredible to see that case try.

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Speaker 2: The I know it's going to happen this summer, they say, right now. But this is his third trial because the first trial resulted in a hung jury. Second one was the conviction, then it was overturned. So yeah, this will be this will be quite the trial and this summer.

00:09:29
Speaker 1: Overturn on some kind of a technicality with a jury note, and the.

00:09:34
Speaker 2: Jury asked if they could consider something. The judge said no when he should have said maybe that's from what I understand, but it had nothing to do with the evidence. It was the jurors instruction.

00:09:43
Speaker 1: So did he admit to this?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, okay, yes, so this is yes, this is a wild story, all right. Next up on the run, more arrests in that Louve jewel heist, but still no jewels. That's crazy. More more people were arrested. They haven't said what their roles were, or what they did or didn't do, or what they think they did. But it was two men and two women. And again a reminder, one hundred and two million dollars worth of French crown jewels were stolen and remain missingsing at that stuff.

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Speaker 1: This is so fascinating if they think they got everybody. And yes, now that they arrested these four in addition to the three they already had in custody, they now say they believe they have that four man team that actually participated in the heist. They say they got them.

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Speaker 2: But I think it'd be better for them to have the jewels and not the people.

00:10:33
Speaker 1: But oh, well, you know what, that's a good question. Well how about that. Would you rather have them in jail for their crimes or to have the jewels back and have thieves go free.

00:10:43
Speaker 2: I think it's the ladder of the two.

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Speaker 1: Wow, all right.

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Speaker 2: Next up on the run by Heart, the company behind the bachelorism outbreak says that now all of its products might be tainted. We know at least thirty plus babies have been sick, and thankfully there have been no deaths as a result of this outbreak. But the company had initially recalled some of its products, and they added some more products. Now it's all the products.

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Speaker 1: They can't tell. They cannot give it all clear to a single drop of their products.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because they went back nine months and they had babies that were sick.

00:11:18
Speaker 1: They can't. So, yes, they tested, they said, this is their statement. Based on these results of the latest testing, we cannot rule out the risk that all buy Hard formula, across all product lots may have been contaminated. Wow, this company's out of business, are they?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I can't. That's going to be very difficult to bounce back from because even if they figure out the source and they remedy the situation, you think I'm gonna buy buy Heart products and put them inside my child? Probably not?

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Speaker 1: All right? Well, folks, stay with us on this Thanksgiving Eve run. When we come back, you need to hear this before you use any Campbell soup products and your things Giving meal. Also, somebody just got kicked out of Venice for vandalism, and America First also applies to our national parks and a Trump pardoning ceremony for turkeys like one we've never seen before.

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Speaker 2: Continuing our run on this, I was gonna say Thursday Eve, but no Thanksgiving Eve. No, you said it right. I just said it. I thought it wrong. I was hoping it was going to be Friday. But you know what, We're on the eve of an amazing holiday, so that's exciting in and of itself. The problem is a lot of us present party included, we'll be using Campbell's soup products in their cast I'm using I'm using two different Campbell soups. Wow, and I'm actually preparing them tonight in advance of our meals tomorrow. R.

00:12:50
Speaker 1: It's not healthy though, you.

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Speaker 2: Ain't gonna eat either one of them, so it's fine.

00:12:53
Speaker 1: Well, certainly if it has campbell soup product, did it stop?

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Speaker 2: I have cream of mushroom soup being used in one of my cast roles, and I have cream of chicknsume being used in another one.

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Speaker 1: Happen is not healthy. Campbell's soup products are not healthy. Don't you know? They are not healthy? According to a Campbell's executive. This is not us saying this. This Campbell's soup executive said it's not healthy and it's for poor people.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I did not grow up wealthy and I consumed a lot of Campbell's soup products. I can say that much. But that's as far as I can take here.

00:13:28
Speaker 1: You've had some health problem.

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Speaker 2: Stop it stop. It's executive Martin Valley has been placed on leave. He is the VP of it. And there is a doozy of an audio recording that has come to light. It's all part of a lawsuit. The executive made fun of Campbell's soup customers, called the food unhealthy, made extremely racist comments, made fun of the customers, that he would never eat the product.

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Speaker 1: This went on for a while, didn't they say? Hour and fifteen minutes, okay, idea of something on These are direct quotes. I don't want to eat a piece of chicken that came from a three D printer. Another and I quote and forgive the language. We have shit for fucking poor people who buys our shit. I don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy. Now that I know what the fuck's in it.

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Speaker 2: That is terrible.

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Speaker 1: They should they're gonna.

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Speaker 2: The funny thing is, well, obviously they have to make sure and verify that the voice is the person who the fired employees says it was. But clearly this is exactly what it seems like. And if it is determined, I don't know how they figure out whose voice is what. But yeah, I don't think he's going to be the VP of it for.

00:14:44
Speaker 1: Very long, not long at all.

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Speaker 2: He's on administrative leave. Just for the record, But there.

00:14:49
Speaker 1: Is a VP, an executive of this company saying that his products in a moment that he doesn't know in an honest moment, he's saying that he knows what's in it and he won't eat it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, we're gonna just check check around noon when I'm gonna be paring the cast role. We're gonna we're gonna have a whole podcast on this. This is this is a doozy of a story.

00:15:13
Speaker 1: All right, folks, get you on the run here now with environmental activists Greta Thunberg. She's been kicked out of Venice. That's a tough place to get kicked out of, it you rolling your eyes?

00:15:22
Speaker 2: Why well, just because she gets kicked out of a lot of places, and even the bezos didn't get kicked out.

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Speaker 1: You know, she was kicked out of Venice because she was part of a group that decided to do a little demonstration and turn those famous canals green by pouring this dye into it. It's not supposed to be toxic, they say, but it turns the waterway green. And they're trying to make a point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, uh, the group called Extinct Extinction Rebellion, So this is what the group's name is. And they claim that they're trying to make a point about the massive effect of climate collapse. So yes, they they died all of those famous Venice canals a sickly, putrid green.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we say, okay, well, big deal is just some die that made their point. But local officials say this quote, vandalism doesn't protect the environment. I kind of thought their tone was at some points good, but they said this is actually going to require them to do some restoration work and it's actually going to generate pollution, So I guess I appreciate.

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Speaker 2: What they said. Look, you you actually asked me if Grete was an environmentalist or an environmental activist, and I was like, I really think the latter, because I mean, yes, she's trying to bring awareness and she's trying to try to light but to do it through vandalism. I understand how frustrating that probably is for Venice officials who have to now clean up their display of anger about how we're treating the environment.

00:16:46
Speaker 1: And the band's only a couple of days. They just kicked her out, and I guess you can.

00:16:48
Speaker 2: Come back later forty eight hours, Okay, all right? Next up on the Run America. First, apparently even applies to tourists at.

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Speaker 1: Our nas change aimed at lasts of America trying to visit one of our was it eleven great nationals on this list in particular, but yeah, to pay up to one hundred dollars more for entry. Interior Department calls it America first entry fee policies. They start at the beginning of the year. And yeah, I hate when anybody says it like this fair share international visitors have to pay their fair share is how he put it in the area.

00:17:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. That leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Aren't national parks supposed to be enjoyed by all and be accessible to everyone, not just people in this country, but people who appreciate it.

00:17:32
Speaker 1: Their argument is that we are paying for it as American citizens for other people to come here and enjoy, and why shouldn't they pay a larger part of taking care of it if they're just coming to visit. It's part of the argument they make. I'm not on board with that.

00:17:50
Speaker 2: But like, if you make it one hundred bucks a ticket, that's cost prohibitive, but that's more expensive than Disney. I just feel like that. Sadly, people fewer people who will be going to see the Grand Canyons. And I do think when you when you appreciate the beauty of this country, you appreciate the people maybe a little bit more, Maybe you appreciate just this country a little more, and it could open hearts and minds to several people who I think we have maybe done the opposite without having.

00:18:17
Speaker 1: To have a conversation with an American and you can still appreciate America and you want more. And if you are going to the parks, all right, We're going to wrap up the run with the turkey partning ceremony at the White House. We've seen these every year, and for whatever reason, I like watching them. They're just kind of funny and see what awkward moment is between the President and the turkey.

00:18:36
Speaker 2: You never know what's going to happen when you have children or animals on live television, so it's always worth a watch.

00:18:41
Speaker 1: We know how this is going to go. Well, we used to. And then there was a Trump Turkey partning ceremony yesterday. Now remember the names. I know you weren't wild about them, but after I read the rest of them to you, you understood. The turkeys were Gobble and Waddle. So the President was on yesterday. It looks like he got good rest, he was feeling, he had good energy. He was back to being a TV guy, TV producer. But he he put on a show. He said, Gobbling Waddle. He wanted to call them Chuck and Nancy.

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Speaker 2: Yes, he said, I'll quote the president here. When I first saw their pictures, I thought, well, I shouldn't say this, but I was gonna call them Chuck and Nancy. But then I thought I would never pardon those two people.

00:19:19
Speaker 1: But I'm bump.

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Speaker 2: And then and then he made a joke about the auto pen and last year's turkey. So here's what he said. Last year, Sleepy Joe Biden used an auto pen for the turkey's pardon. So I have determined that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid.

00:19:36
Speaker 1: It wasn't mean, you know what, He made up a good political joke without being mean.

00:19:40
Speaker 2: Spirit then he undid it.

00:19:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, see, I was trying to end on a happy note from the Turkey thing.

00:19:47
Speaker 2: Then why'd you put big fat slob in the in the rundown.

00:19:50
Speaker 1: Because that's what he called the governor of Illinois.

00:19:53
Speaker 2: Okay, So he undid all of his funny gestures that seemingly were just you know, in good fun. But then he had to go to poor taste.

00:20:03
Speaker 1: Before we let you go. Something we like for you to consider on this today before Thanksgiving. It is our quote of the day. And again, oh yeah, these are still I'm pulling these from my files, so blame me if you don't like them. Okay, also give me credit if you love them.

00:20:18
Speaker 2: And also I'll just give you an extra brownie point for having one today.

00:20:22
Speaker 1: Boom. See you know what. Never mind, just for that, nobody gets one. The whole class is gonna get punished because of the behavior of one little miss Amy. Revit. No, yes yesterday, I it was a mess. I actually had a bad day.

00:20:37
Speaker 2: Yet you had a bad day yesterday. I didn't pile on because I was like, ooh, that's that's not how he needed to end this.

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Speaker 1: But it started with me not being able while we were in the live recording being able to find the thing I had plucked out. I couldn't find it on two computers. I was looking through tabs and couldn't find it. But this is what it was from yesterday. Quote. What can seem like a painful war again to you, and what can feel like an ambush at every corner, may be a blessing guiding you and breaking you out of the tight and limiting armor that has become too small for you.

00:21:13
Speaker 2: Oh very cool.

00:21:15
Speaker 1: I love it. I wrote that down years ago. It comes from a young lady Sarah Blondon from my insight timer at the meditation app.

00:21:27
Speaker 2: I love it because I was taking it. I don't know tell me if I'm on the right path, but when I hear that, I think we all take things so personally sometimes. And when you feel that tightness in your chest and you feel your body actually constrict and restrict because you're feeling offended or whatever, you have to like say, wait, why you feel that armor that you've built up to protect yourself and your ego and you feel it tightening and squeezing you. That's on you and you need to do the growth. It has nothing to do with the person who said what they said.

00:21:55
Speaker 1: It jumped out at me and it's been simmering for two days now, So I hope you like it.

00:22:00
Speaker 2: Can you say it one more time?

00:22:01
Speaker 1: What can seem like a painful war against you, and what can feel like an ambush at every corner may be a blessing guiding you and breaking you out of the tight and limiting armor that has become too small for you. And with that, folks, please be safe, be careful getting where you're going, enjoy your time, appreciate the ones with Huckam tights, no arguments at the table, and all that good stuff, but certainly hope you all are on your way to a wonderful Thanksgiving. I'm TJ.

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Speaker 2: Holmes and I'm Amy Roboch. Thank you everyone for running with us.