Morning Run: Trump Not Going to Heaven, Historic Shutdown, Gaza Deal Signed, Hegseth Media Deadline and Taylor Breaks Record

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, It's Tuesday, October fourteenth.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ. Holmes and President Trump is not going to heaven. It has been established. And this is according to President Trump. I am not saying this book.

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Speaker 3: This was an.

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Speaker 2: Interesting moment that President Trump himself said he didn't believe he was going to heaven, but he's working on it. We'll explain what happened on the airplane on his way back from the Middle East. Also, update on the shutdown. It's still going on. No surprise there, but Robes, this was not encouraging. One of the top leaders who's in charge of it said, this might be a history making shutdown.

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Speaker 1: Not what anybody wants to hear at this point. And what is the record is just over a month, so we're inching our way towards that. And wow, if those are the expectations, that does not bode well.

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Speaker 2: Telling us to get ready for the longest shutdown we have ever seen. Also, what in the world Robes kind of really a bizarre story. Family Matter, a star from Family Matters in jail this morning right.

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Speaker 1: Over Family Matters and call him a fugitive. Yes, he was a fugitive.

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Speaker 2: This is a weird story.

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Speaker 1: Yes, on his way to Tijuana. We'll explain why he says he was going there, Yes.

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Speaker 2: Which makes the story even more bizarre and almost ridiculous when.

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Speaker 3: You hear some of the details.

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Speaker 2: Also, we have been seeing a what seemed like we have been on an execution tear in this country this year. Well it continues, folks. We had a stretch that we had what was it, six executions scheduled in eight days in this country and two of them are scheduled for tonight. One of those guys still has maintaining his innocence.

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Speaker 1: And once DNA yes, testimony included in the consideration of his guilt or innocence, and so far he has been denied.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So we will see if if either of those executions executions could possibly be stopped today. Also, as always a reminder, click that button top right corner of your Apple podcast app. It says follow you click that you can get our updates coming to you.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to go looking for all right.

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Speaker 1: Also on the run this morning, evacuation warnings again. In Los Angeles, a CEO dies in an ATV accident. Another state is about to read district the Gaza deal. Yeah, it's signed, and the nor'easter finally letting up, and news organizations are on heg set's deadline today. This is a fascinating story coming out of the Pentagon. And of course Taylor Swift breaks a record, the record she's been breaking all week long. Last week.

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Speaker 2: I guess we just say her name and it's almost, Okay, what has she done?

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Speaker 3: Awesome? Now? What great thing has happened to her? Now?

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Speaker 1: I mean, she's probably going to start pooping rainbows as far as we know, that's where she is.

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Speaker 2: Oh, she's been doing that since twenty fifteen.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry you might have missed that.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: All right, and I want you all to know Robot was trying to get a bite of her breakfast then while I was talking Taylor Swift. So she's still laughing. She's hoping I'll keep talking so she can get that yogurt down.

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Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm good. We begin our run on this Tuesday. The deal is signed, the hostages have all been released. President Trump is back home after an extraordinary and fast moving day of developments in the Middle East.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, all twenty of the remaining living hostages were handed over by Hermas yesterday and roads we started watching it overnight and we first got out like two three in the morning. We started releasing here and then the video slowly but surely started to trick her out. You cannot believe these reunions. This was cool to see two years they haven't seen their.

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Speaker 1: Loved ones or heard from them, didn't know if they were dead or alive.

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Speaker 3: You know, it was interesting.

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Speaker 2: All of them were young men that were left, and they were said, it was fascinating. They were all walking out, but the ones that were left were in their twenties and thirties. All of them except one guy was in his forties. And I guess these were the ones, the strongest ones kind of left that were still in pretty good shape. But this was really remarkable to see. They were just beginning the process of handing over remains as well.

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Speaker 3: They do believe what is.

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Speaker 2: It twenty eight is the number hostages at least remains that are deceits, but that process going on as well. But just as the process of handing over hostages was happening yesterday, President Trump was landing in Israel, greeted as a hero for brokering the deal that has, in everybody's estimation, certainly the president's, has ended this.

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Speaker 3: Two year war.

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Speaker 1: After speaking to the Israeli Parliament, the President made his way then to Egypt for a peace deal signing ceremony, and yes declared the Gaza War over and that this is the dawn of a new Middle East. Trump said, this will be remembered as the moment that everything began to change. So we can only hope that that is true.

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Speaker 2: Next leg of the run brings us back here for the domestic agenda for the president, and the Senate is scheduled to vote today on a spending bill that could end the shutdown. Do not get your hopes up, people, Not that you would, but they're going to be voting on the same spending measures that have failed seven times before. They're just doing the same thing over and over again. I don't think they're expecting a different result. They're just doing this for show at this point, because nobody didn't you point out yesterday the previous seven times, nobody has changed.

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Speaker 3: A single time.

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Speaker 1: Three Democrats have gone over to the Republican side, and that's it, and that's the way it stayed from the beginning and nothing has changed. So yeah, there is no real end in sight. And to make matters even more dire, the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, gave this ominous warning yesterday, saying, quote, we're barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history. The longest was thirty five days, and that was during Trump's first term.

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Speaker 3: Trump just.

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Speaker 2: Shut downs in Trump go hand in hand. Apparently we are on day fourteen officially of this shut down. The House isn't even at work. Speaker Johnson says, no point in calling them back. There's nothing for them to do there. I guess voters might disagree.

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Speaker 3: A remind to hear.

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Speaker 2: This impass is over Democrats' insistence on getting healthcare guarantees from Republicans before they negotiate the rest of the deal. Republicans say they're open to talking about this stuff, but let's get the government opened first.

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Speaker 3: So here we go.

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Speaker 2: But President Trump said he did find money to pay the military, and then Christy Nomes said Coastguard gonna get paid as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run. Just because the government is shut down, that does not mean you don't have to pay up any of you who filed a tax extension back in April, Well, you'll now be expected to submit your tax returned by the original deadline of October fifteenth, which is.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, by the way, people were hopeful that may Yeah, of course, Well, each year about twenty million Americans ask the IRS for nix tension. Now the IRS puts it this way, the lapse in appropriations does not change federal income tax responsibilities.

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Speaker 3: Does that make perfect sense?

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Speaker 1: Honestly coming from the IRS, because everything they do is confusing. Why not just who speaks like that, the laps and appropriations? How about just saying the government shutdown doesn't change the fact that you have to pay us.

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Speaker 3: That's plain.

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Speaker 1: But no, they like to say the lapse and appropriation confusing. What is that? All right? It's so classic IRS? All right. Most IRS operations are closed during the shutdown. About half its workers had been on furloughs since last week. But those essential employees who are waiting for your returns are still on the job. And so get that in the mail by midnight tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: All continuing on the run here on this Tuesday morning. And President Trump is not going to heaven, at least he doesn't think so. Now, this was a lighter. I thought you saw the most. I thought it was kind of funny. He was on Air Force one and he was asked about getting to heaven and how his work on brokering a peace deal in the Middle East could help.

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Speaker 1: I have to have I think you can negotiate with God. Just that's just my understanding of my body bringing yes. So the President's response was this, I don't think there's anything going to get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to make heaven, but I've made life a lot better for a lot of people. And by the way, this isn't the first time the President has referenced heaven. Earlier this summer, when he was talking about the Ukraine Russian War, he said, I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem bowl. But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.

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Speaker 3: That's okay.

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Speaker 1: That's every once in a while part of the deal, trying to make it, trying to make a deal with God.

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Speaker 2: O God, they tell you specifically in the Bible, you cannot do this. But this idea, there's a what's the line, I don't mess it up. There's a correlation between guilty generosity, I think is the line. I'm not saying he feels no, I don't have to say it. He's almost saying it. Yeah, that he's trying to find a way to do good deeds, good works, to get his way into.

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Speaker 1: Heavy to offset any bad deeds he may have done.

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Speaker 2: Okay, right on the run here now and so far six six media outlets that includes The New York Times, AP, Reuters, Washington Posts, The Atlantic, and the conservative television network Newsmax. They have all publicly said they will not sign the new press rules issued by the Department of Defense.

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Speaker 1: And time is up. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made it very clear, saying that reporters who do not acknowledge and sign the new policy by the end of the day today must turn in their Pentagon press badges and clear out their workspaces by tomorrow. The new rules require the journalists have all information, even unclassified information, approved for release by a Defense Department official that is.

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Speaker 2: Usually the managing editor of a newsroom right that gets to make the call about what goes on. The Pentagon is saying they now want to serve as the managing editor for all news organizations who cover the Defense Department. Yeah, journalists also going to be limited in where they can go inside the Pentagon without an escort. News organization say the rules threaten to punish them for news gathering that is protected by the First Amendment. The Pentagon says it can't block journalists from reporting news, but it can revoke the credentials of reporters who ask anyone in the DoD for information without official approval.

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Speaker 3: Is that a way to get around it?

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Speaker 2: There are conditions for you having a press creen, correct, and these are the conditions.

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Speaker 1: They're saying that the mainstream press has overstated what these rules actually mean. But the truth is, if you don't get permission to report certain information, your credential will be removed and you will not have access. Now, it's also a big warning shot to any DoD official worker, whoever, who people might get sources, say from the Pentagon, if any of that. They're trying to stop leaks basically, and this is how they're doing it now. Hegseth reacted to the New York Times statement that it won't sign these new rules by posting the statement on X and adding a hand waving emoji, like by taunting them. That was wild to me that he did that. He put a little bye. Don't let the door hit you in the Yeah.

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Speaker 3: What do you do there? Road? Do you go after the leak? Gerr?

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Speaker 2: Right, go after the person who's putting out the information. But you can't punish the journalist for acquiring information.

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Speaker 1: This is appalling, scary, like actually frightening behavior.

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Speaker 2: This one's scary. All right, we'll continue on the run here. Now, let's head down to North Carolina for the next leg of this run. That state wants in on the redistricting action, raising their hey, hey, don't forget about us. Yes, state gop lator is there, announced that they will vote on a new redistricting map next week.

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Speaker 1: When is this going to end? Never so, Yes. Doing so is expected to give Republicans an even bigger advantage in the state and help them pick up one more congressional seat. You'll remember this all started with Texas earlier that summer that had lawmakers actually hiding out in other states to try and avoid having to vote because they knew they would lose the redistricting battle.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then California gets in and they say, we're going to change our map to counter that. And now other states are involved blah blah blah. But North Carolina it's going to be doing this next week. Well, they just redrew their congressional map robes two years ago.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Before they redrew the map two years ago, fourteen districts in the state of North Carolina. It was split seven Democrats seven Republicans. But after they redistrict, Republicans have ten of the fourteen seats, so they got an advantage. And now they're not being shy about it. Yep, we're absolutely going to redraw this thing to give ourselves even bigger advantage.

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Speaker 1: Woof all Right, Next up on the Run, the fifty five year old CEO of lending Tree has died in an ATV accident. The company confirmed Doug Lobdu was riding an all terrain vehicle on his North Carolina farm on Sunday when the tragic accident happens.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of people don't know certainly his name, but lending Tree, a lot of these companies popped up online, making it easier for you to get mortgages and credit cards and whatnot. But he started the company in nineteen ninety six after getting frustrated himself with the process of getting his first mortgage. So yes, it's a marketplace people can shop, compare rates and whatnot. But just fifty five he built this thing. It went public and it's just I mean, it's just so sad. But you had to hear that this guy has been a and that company has been a powerhouse in financial services.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, next up on the run. There are four execution scheduled this week in the United States, and two of them are tonight at six pm Eastern time. And in one of those, the inmate is still maintaining his innocence.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that inmate is Lance Shockley. He has been denied clemency from the governor of Missouri. That happened yesterday, and courts have turned down his requests for DNA testing of evidence, claiming he claims the advanced testing wasn't available when he was tried twenty years ago. So he was convicted for the two thousand and five murder of a Missouri state trooper. Now this is some pretty awful details, but this trooper, according to authorities, was ambush. They say Shockley actually waited outside of his home for quite a while, ambushed him, shot him in the back, and then shot him in the head.

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Speaker 1: Well and his attorneys point out though, that he was only convicted on circumstantial evidence and that there was no DNA, there was no physical evidence, no confession, and not a single witness. Well, no court has seen it that way, So that remains I guess what it is. It doesn't look like there's any real possibility of any action or anything change.

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Speaker 2: Charts have turned him down. This is not one that looks like there's a lot of hope of.

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Speaker 1: Stopping right all right. And at the same time, Shockley is scheduled to be executed tonight. Samuel Lee Smithers will also be in an execution chamber in Florida. The seventy two year old was convicted of murdering two women in Tampa back in nineteen ninety six.

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Speaker 2: Now, his attorneys have been arguing that it's cruel and unusual punishment to execute an elderly man. They say, also at this point, I mean it doesn't serve any purposes, not a deterrent, it's not anything to just kill him. At this point, Smithers would be the fourteenth execution in Florida this year. That would be a record for Florida. There's extending the record right up to fourteen, way ahead of Texas has five, I believe for this year. Texas usually leads the way. Also, an execution scheduled in Mississippi tomorrow, one in Arizona on Friday. There was another one where was the one that was one last Friday. So there was a stretch here where there were six execution scheduled in an eight day stretch.

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Speaker 1: And Robert Robertson was supposed to be scheduled or was scheduled to be executed as well this week, but he got a stay of execution granted to him last week.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, folks, stay with us here on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, we'll get into this bizarre story of a star of family matters was on the run, a fugitive according to authorities. Well, he is in jail this morning. Also, that nor'easter was a deadly one and it's finally getting out of here today. Also, evacuation warnings in southern California, not fire this time, but flooding an issue, and Taylor Swift, you can fill.

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Speaker 3: In the blank. She did something else. Awesome.

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, will continue on this Tuesday morning run. Now when something we're keeping an eye on. The President said he was going to do it, and he's going to follow through today. But Charlie Kirk is going to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in this country. Ceremony expected in the East Room today. I think it's four o'clock Eastern time. But of course, after Charliekirk was killed, he pretty quickly the President said he was going to award him posthumous lead the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Speaker 3: And that is.

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Speaker 2: Happening today on what would have been Rotes his thirty second birthday, October thirty two.

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Speaker 1: Damn wow, so young, so young. All right. Next up on the Run, we're going to head to San Diego, where former Family Matters actor forty nine year old Darius McCrary is behind bars. He's awaiting a court hearing that is scheduled for tomorrow. McCrary is being held without bail on a felony charge of being a fugitive. Police arrested him earlier this month after he missed a court appearance for failure to pay child support.

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Speaker 3: But what happened was is we'll get into it. He was taking into custody.

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Speaker 2: He was heading to Tijuana, Mexico. Now you hear that and you might think he's trying to flee. Correct, However, he has an explanation for this. Mccrary's rep says the actor was headed to Mexico to build homes for the homeless, A very little, legitimate and noble trip he was taking. He wasn't running, he was going to help probes.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: His rep also said McRae's court appearance notice was sent to his PO box, not his home address, and because he has COVID, he didn't check it in time for the appearance. What are you laughing about?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: All of this might be true, but it's stacking up like a dog ate my homework kind of excuse.

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Speaker 1: And just as I was reading this story and getting I just started laughing. Look, it could be true, but it just seems ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: I was going to Tijuana, I can explain. I was going to build Holmes. I can explain I didn't get the notice because who has a PO box?

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Speaker 1: A lot of stars do and why just because you have COVID you can't you can't go to your PO box to check your mail.

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Speaker 3: Well, he's trying to make sure he's taking today public. Got it? Okay?

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Speaker 2: So he's been in a San Diego jail since October fourth. He was pretty obviously arrested for failure to pay child's support in twenty fifteen and in twenty twenty three. Again, when you see his face, he looks like the same kid he does was during the.

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Speaker 1: Show he played Eddie Winslow and Family Matters. Everyone remembers that he also was a heart throb in The Young and Restless. So look, this is a very familiar face, but he is now getting very familiar with the jail cell. I mean, yeah, yeah, more details to come on that one. We will follow that one.

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Speaker 2: We want to leave. Oh, I mean we laugh a little bit there. Everything he's saying might be true. He is innocent to a proven guilty. But when you start stacking things.

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Speaker 1: Up, it just sometimes can't help. But things actually are what they seem. But we'll see all right. Next up on the run. Weather conditions thankfully starting to calm on the East Coast today as that nor'easter makes its way farther out to the Atlantic.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't look like it looking at our wind.

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Speaker 1: It looks like a Stephen King novel outside right now.

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Speaker 2: The storm, Yes, it's been really giving us hell for the past several days. When I say us, I mean people up and down.

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Speaker 3: The East Coast.

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Speaker 2: This storm, yes, has caused fits and it has in fact been deadly. Is being blamed for three deaths, including the death of a seventy six year old woman in Brooklyn, killed when she was hit by a solar panel that came loose in the high winds en rope here in New York. The local CBS affiliate has video of it. They have been playing. They stop it at the moment before impact. But there's actually video.

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Speaker 3: Of this happening.

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Speaker 2: But watchers and warnings going to start expiring, like along the East Coast today the storm finally get nting all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Evacuation warnings are now in place in southern California in some of the very same areas where people were fleeing fire earlier this year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this time people in the Palisades and eaten neighborhoods. Yeah, they are being warned about possible mudslines and debris flow. A major early season system is expected to drop a significant amount of rain in the LA area today, and the fear is that, yes, those burn scars left by the devastating fires will get drenched and lead to mutslide.

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Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our run. The numbers are in and Taylor Swift is on top. We're talking way on top. The Life of a Showgirl ended its first week with the equivalent of four million, two thousand sales in the US.

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Speaker 3: Equivalent to these.

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Speaker 2: Numbers, okay, that easily right. Best Adele's record for her album twenty five that was in twenty what years fifteen, twenty fifteen. That one sold three million, four hundred and eighty two thousand copies or units or I don't know, but that record held for a decade. Showgirl has become Swift's fifteenth album to hit number one on the Billboard two hundred charts.

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Speaker 3: She only needs five more.

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Speaker 2: I say, only most people are going to get one, but five seems to be.

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Speaker 3: Within her reach.

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Speaker 2: If she does that, she will then beat the record by the Beatles. They had nineteen number.

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Speaker 1: One albums, right, I didn't know they had not ninety number one albums. That was remarkable. But yeah, she's on her way and the good news keeps on coming for Taylor. Her own opening track of her album, The Fate of Ophelia, has now become themo's streamed song on Spotify in a single week. Ev all right, even the reaction. I love what she said here though, smart businesswoman. Even though reaction and reviews to Showgirl had been mixed from both critics and fans alike, Taylor told Apple Music she welcomes the chaos, saying this, The rule of show business is if it's the first week of my album release and you are saying either my name or my album title, you're helping.

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Speaker 3: Where does she say that to?

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Speaker 1: Apple? To Apple? She did an interview with Apple yesterday, and that's what she said because they asked about some of the mixed reviews and some of what the critics were saying about her music.

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Speaker 2: Wow, but yeah, isn't a lot of people say it doesn't matter if you like it you don't like it, you're talking about me, So hey, do you think Taylor swifts? He also announced she's releasing a six episode docu series about the development of her era's tour called The End of an Era. Two episodes will drop each week on Disney Plus starting mid December. The same time, she also released a concert film and the last date of her Era's tour called The Final Show. Also, she's getting married and you said it has been confirmed.

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Speaker 3: She boops, rainbowts.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations to Taylor Swift. All right, we're gonna leave you with this on this Tuesday. It is our quote of the day. Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset.

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Speaker 2: Man, keep that with you, that one moment, always the moment. The moment is key. How you react in the moment. I tell you, don't people that all the time. Hey, make all the mistakes you want, just don't make the ones that are gonna cost you years to recover from.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, if you get that moment before you choose an action, you can feel all the fields, you can feel all the rage. I just if you can go step aside for ninety seconds and just take some deep breaths. It sounds silly, it is so incredible, the changes in body chemistry that happen if you just give yourself ninety seconds. Because man, there's nothing like red reading something that you could have avoided, right, that you chose because you were angry your emotions to go for. So yes, never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset. I didn't know. I couldn't figure out who to attribute to. I tried and looked, but I think a lot of people have just said it so often it's just kind of become a part of our anacular now. But something to always remember, very important on this day and every day. And with that, everyone, thank you for listening. I'm made Me Robot and I'm t J.

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Speaker 3: Holmes. We will be running with you all again too,