Morning Run: Trump Sedition Accusations, Miss Mexico Revenge, ATC Bonuses, “Piggy” Comment Justified, Coast Guard Hate Language and Chadwick Boseman Star

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. I feel like I always have a little more pep in my step on Fridays, and yes it's Friday, November twenty. First, I'm Amy.

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Speaker 2: Robot, and I'm not as much pep in step DJ Holmes on this Friday, I wind down. Friday's are tough for me. It's been a rough week always for me. I can't wait for Monday, like a Monday fresh, get a new start. Now I'm reflecting on all the mistakes and things I did wrong this week. That's why I don't want now.

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Speaker 1: What a way to bring a Debbie Downer moment to an awesome Friday.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm trying to help the listeners by they going why at least I'm not having as bad of a week as he is. No, it's been great, but hello everybody, I know. Look, some people are traveling now. They're starting to get out of there for the Thanksgiving already, so good luck with the travel. Hopefully things are better and some of your air traffic controllers are going to be in better moods. We got the official number of how many are going to get those bonuses. I thought the number was a little low. I thought it might be more. But we'll get into that. They are going to get bonuses for showing up for the shutdown.

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Speaker 1: I was excited to hear about that. That's one of my favorite stories of the morning. Also on the morning, ron A Fuji is going to jail. A Mexican painter just sent a record set a record. A Mexican beauty queen just got sweet revenge, which was That's another one of my favorite stories of the day.

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Speaker 2: Also, this one probably isn't a favorite story of the day. Swastikas and nooses are bad once again. We'll get into that. Also, Trump and Mom Donnie about to get chummy in the Old Office today. This might be my favorite story of the day. Robes folks, you have got to hear the White House explanation to this simple question that was asked, what did the President mean when he called a reporter piggy? The answer is, it's something.

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Speaker 1: My jaw has dropped multiple times this morning, and this is among the stories that did that. And I mean, I actually I don't know if you could hear me when I was reading us what, oh my, are you serious?

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Speaker 2: Oh that's why you were reacting to reading this one?

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, not believe this quote. It set me off, So can't wait to get to that. All right, we begin to run on this Friday morning, though with this security has been stepped up now for six Democratic members of Congress, all because President Trump seemed to call for their execution.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we say seemed, others say he absolutely did. These six Democrats drew the President's i R after they released a video in which they urged members of the military and the intelligence community to refuse to carry out illegal orders.

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Speaker 1: The President posted a series of messages beginning with this one. It's called seditious behavior at the highest level. Each one of these traitors to our country should be arrested and put on trial. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. We won't have a country anymore. An example must be set.

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Speaker 2: He followed that one up with this post quote, this is really bad and dangerous to our country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. Seditious behavior from traders. Lock them up.

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Speaker 1: And a short time later he took it further and wrote, seditious behavior punishable by death. Democrats and even some Republicans condemned the president's words and insisted he'd take the post down.

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Speaker 2: What do you think he did? Well, as of this recording, at least the posts were still up now. Carolyn Levitt, spokesperson at the White House, was asked about this in the press briefing yesterday if the President thinks that members of Congress should be executed? Her answer was simply no, and then she directed the reporters back to the original video from the six Democrats, essentially saying, right, well, you should focus on what set the president off in the first place. Was there answer?

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Speaker 1: Yes? And well, speaking of Carolyn Levitt, we'll move on to the next story. Next up on the run, the White House gave a fuller explanation of why President Trump called a reporter piggy last weekend. This was did he say, quiet, quiet, Piggy, Quiet quiet Peggy. There was a debate on that all week long in back, we did a full podcast on it yesterday.

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Speaker 2: You said that was a bait. This was not debate. It's not a debate. We heard clearly what he said, but there were some folks trying to defend the president and saying that the reporter's name was Peggy, and he said quiet Peggy. He did not. It was not Peggy. The woman's name was Lucy whatever, right, even.

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Speaker 1: So, Catherine Lucy.

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Speaker 2: She was asked about this yesterday, Carolyn Levit so at the White House Press briefing. The question came to her in this exact form, what did the president mean when he called a reporter piggy? And this is the entire answer, verbatim.

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Speaker 1: Wait for it. You're going to want to listen to this. Here's what Carolyn Levitt said. The President is very frank and honest with everybody in this room. You've all seen it yourself, you've all experienced it yourself. I think it's one of the many reasons that the American people re elected this president because of his frankness, and he calls out fake news when he sees it. He gets frustrated with reporters when you lie about him, when you spread fake news about him and his administration. But he also is the most transparent president in history, and he gives all of you all in this room, as you all know, unprecedented access. You all are in the Oval Office almost every day asking the President questions. So I think the President being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs is frankly, a lot more respectful than what you saw in the last administration, where president lied to your face and then didn't speak to you for weeks and then headed upstairs and didn't take your questions. So I think everyone in this room should appreciate the frankness and the openness that you get from President Trump on a near daily basis. So let me get this straight. Not only was it not wrong for him to call a female reporter a piggy when he didn't like her question, but we should actually appreciate the fact that he's willing to say such horrific things to her face rather than behind her back.

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Speaker 2: You should be grateful that you have a president like this is the entire my blood is boiling answer. She get again? You know me, I'm always trying to see both sides and trying to have a defense for both sides of some argument. I just again, this is the president. Now, what about a sabine is in seventh grade? What about kids that age who are seeing it justified? Piggy? I can call you piggy because I'm being honest and I'm being frank, and no mention of rude, of decency or disrespectful anything. It's just that was that was. I can't remember was she reading this.

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Speaker 1: She looks down a lot when I see her do it, so she definitely has notes. And so, yes, they were prepared, she thought this through. Obviously, they were probably prepared for this question. But the answer it was couldn't have come up with that.

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Speaker 2: Again, I didn't want to interpret it. I just wanted to leave it that. That's why I put the whole thing in and let everybody and that's what happened. Continuing on the run here now, I want to much shap your note here, right, Santa Claus, It's coming to town a little early. Those words from somebody who is I have given a lot of praise to here lately, Sean Duffy, the Transportation secretary, who has become the second most famous person in the administration here lately. But yes, Santa's coming to town a little early. He put that out in a tweet yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was talking about the air traffic controllers who will be getting a ten thousand dollars bonus for perfect attendance during the shutdown.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the FAA confirmed yesterday just how many will be getting the ten K eight hundred, eight hundred air traffic controllers and technicians qualified by not missing a single day in the forty three day government shutdown into making the announcement, FAA said they did patriotic work.

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Speaker 1: The controllers will be notified next week. They will get their money, they say by December ninth. Again, Chris's also, I am totally shocked.

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Speaker 2: Government works ropes. It works, yes.

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Speaker 1: When they wanted to. Yes, it does. The Union for Air Traffic Controllers actually want others recognized who didn't have perfect attendance. There might have been real reasons why, so, I don't know. It's tough. I do appreciate the fact that those who did come in no matter what.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that that.

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Speaker 1: Is worthy of this bonus. It made me happy to read that we're rewarding them.

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Speaker 2: I do personally applause. Right, What was the tax one we fill out? Sometimes it says, do you want to contribute a dollar to some president? If you put on a form, this money is going to go towards paying air traffic controllers who went through hell. I would check that exactly. If I know exactly what this is a great use. What do you say about the others. I'm not sure how to feel about it. The union is taking off for all of their folks that they look but some are being signaled out and getting singled out and getting ten k. Like everybody did patriotic work even if they weren't there every single day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the answer is. Maybe you know, there could be some sort of sliding scale where they could get something, some sort of a bonus for what they did and the hard work they put in.

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Speaker 2: All right, continue on the run here now. Good news bad news robes about the Trump um Nani meeting today in the Oval Office. Good news is that it's it's happening. That's good. Right the good news bad news part it's closed to the press. You think that's good or bad.

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably good because I would think that it would be less about political theater and more about substantive talks, because we do need to have the president of the United States working with the most important city in the country. I think many would argue in terms of the financial implications of New York ex anybody else, but like I think people would say, this is the financial capital of the world. So yes, we want the mayor of said city to have some sort of reasonable relationship, even if it is adversarial at times, that's fine. When it comes to policy, maybe they can put some of the rhetoric like it won't it doesn't belong in a room where there isn't cameras, and so hopefully they actually can have meaningful conversation.

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Speaker 2: That actually makes sense. I was so fearful that both of these men would try to get some kind of a shot in at each other if the press was there. This is probably the way to go, but it is listed the president three o'clock today with Zurhan, Mom Donnie. These two have been trading pretty nasty barbs for the past several week months.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I think even Carolyn loved something about like speaking to Trump's you know, just big heart, that he was having a communist come to the White House. She actually said that, again, he's a social democrat. Everyone. You can disagree with his policies, but he is not a communist democratic socialist.

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Speaker 2: He calls himself, he calls himself that I did not know about that, yep. Part Yeah, okay, I'm glad this is the closing.

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Speaker 1: Carolyn Lovitt had a hell of a day, all right. Next up on the run. The NTSB released a preliminary report about that deadly fiery ups plane crash in Louisville earlier this month. It included pictures of the shocking moment. You see it frame by frame, that left the engine when sorry, when the engine the left engine fell off during takeoff.

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Speaker 2: This was and I told you just to make make sure you go back. I can look at this video and if anybody's flown before, right, you've flown. You sit next to the window, you look out and you see that big engine. Sometimes sometimes you're sitting right there at the seat. Imagine, folks, that engine lifting off, completely flying off into the air. That is what the picture shows. It is incredible to see. And then just moments after it flies off, the explosion happened. So this was a horrific thing. The working theory they possibly had cracks somewhere around the engine and that contributed to metal fatigue. They're looking into that. A reminder, fourteen people died, three where they're on the crew on board, and then eleven people on the ground who were killed in this accident. Continue now on this Friday morning run with the Coast Guard. They seem to have finally made up their minds over there at the Coast Guard about swastikas, the nooses.

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Speaker 1: You were reading this to me as the news alerts are coming over your phone, and I actually couldn't believe what you were reading to me. So yes, there was some confusion and a lot of backlash after the Coastguard changed the language on its policy on hate symbols. It went from saying that swastikas and nowses were widely identified with oppression or hatred too saying a swastika or a noose was potentially divisive.

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Speaker 2: That's fair. This sparked all kinds of reactions, including from members of Congress, and now the policy has gone with this language saying, quote divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited, including a noose, a swastika, and any symbols or flags co opted by hate based groups. It was a big conversation. Nobody could understand. Don't get a good clarity of why they needed to change something that they were trying to give clarity for their members, and it caused this. But that sounds wild that a swastika's potentially divisive.

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Speaker 1: Potentially divisive, maybe a noose, depending on where you are? Didn't it wasn't the Confederate flag a part of that as well? I believe it was, yes, yes, okay, all right.

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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, we got happy news coming later.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, oh that one was just I cannot get my head around that and so many other news items today. Next on the run, one of the Grammy winning founding members of the Fujis has now been sentenced to fourteen years in prison over millions of dollars in donations to the Obama campaign.

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Speaker 2: This is a bizarre and his trial you saw this. Leonardo DiCaprio testified. It just brought in so many different parts of money and politics. And Proz is the name, you know. Proz. He didn't address anybody in court yesterday during his sentence, and it happened in DC yesterday. His real name is Prakas Reel Michelle. He was convicted of ten counts against him in that twenty twenty three trial. It is so complicated. He was acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government. He's convicted of conspiracy. Complicated scheme here in which he knew some guy who's some financier from Malaysia who has now been discredited, but gave him millions and millions of dollars to funnel into American politics. You can't do that.

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Speaker 1: You can't have a foreign entity influencing a US election.

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Speaker 2: We all know this period.

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Speaker 1: So Prase, Lauren Hill and wyche Leif John actually formed the Fujis and went on to win. To Grammy. So this is, you know, a storied and successful and wildly popular group of folks. And Praz now is fourteen years going to prison.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the prosecutor even wanted more. They were talking about this is life in prison, like this is so serious, and the defense was talking about maybe a couple of years. Yeah, this is a sicknif again conviction for him. All right, well, folks, stay with us. We told you happy news is coming on this Friday morning. Well, yes, stay with us. We're going to tell you about a woman who just pulled off something no woman has ever done before, and it has to do with a self portrait that she made. Also a new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. This one we are really really happy about. And last night, the Miss Universe pageant, after all that scandal, after all that controversy, it had the sweetest storybook ending you could come up with stay it.

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Speaker 1: Continuing our Friday Morning ron and another record breaking painting to tell you about. This one is from famed Mexican painter Frida Callo. Her self portrait Elsugo, which means the Dream sold at auction last night for fifty four point seven million dollars. That made it the most expensive piece of art by a female artist to ever sell at auction. What is the painting of? While? It shows her sleeping in a bed in the clouds, covered by vines. Above her, there's a skeleton sleeping on a bed. But you know Frida, she's the one who has the mustache, the famous her her portraits are everywhere. Her work is incredible. What a cool story.

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Speaker 2: But what we just had another painting this week that was the second most expensive on record. I can't live uondard laughter. It was was a number slipping my mind. Two hundred and fifty something million. I believe it was exerted. Well, this is cool a female art, it's biggest selling. That's cool, probably the most.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if there's another female artist who is more recognizable, whose name is more widely regarded than hers. But that's just a cool story.

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Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of her stuff. This is actually one of the cooler ones that I like this. I don't know what it means, what it stands for, is just something about that's one. If you gave me a print of that, I put it up on the wall. I actually like this and I don't understand art. Continue on the run here now, And what an honor. They just added star number two twenty eight to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And what a name it's added now. Chadwick Boseman was honored yesterday with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Ropes we've spent whatever reason, seems like we're at the Rosevelt Hotel out there. Only we are, but we go up and down. It's like the Times Square of La and we love it. I love it.

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Speaker 1: It's so I love running like we're just running on all these names. It actually it's such a fun part of running in La.

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Speaker 2: So he is a part of that history now. And this was cool to see that his co stars showed up Director Ryan Coogler or Black Panther, Michael b Jordan, Tisha Wright. They all showed up and had words to say. I think Coogler was the one called him an incredible jewel. This great words for him.

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Speaker 1: Was he forty, he was so young and the fact that he did all of that no one knew just I can't even imagine. But what a legacy. And I actually was surprised he's just now getting the star. But as you pointed out, it's not an easy process.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it just takes some time. Somebody just has to do it. Somebody like it. They don't nominate themselves. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce there you as a citizen. Right now, I can go and say nominated you. And I've raised the funds and put it all together. It's just it's a process.

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Speaker 1: It's just all right. And for the final leg of our run on this Friday, some sweet sweet revenge for Miss Mexico last night. She is the new Miss Universe, uh Fatima bosh Fernandez. She's twenty five years old, and she was probably the most notable contestant at the very beginning of the pageant when they all were convening there in Bangkok, because if you might remember, she was the one that the Thai pageant director basically berated on a live stream. I don't think he realized there were cameras rolling, and he called her dumb, and she staged a walk out. The current Miss Universe at that time walked out with her several other contestants, and she really stirred her ground. She's like, I will not be treated like that. I will not be spoken to like that. And look at her winning the whole dang thing last night.

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Speaker 2: We loved again. All the controversy made us once to whine. There were other stuff, judges quit, allegations of rigging, allegations of.

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Speaker 1: Real propers, yes, in proper relationships.

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Speaker 2: It was really but it made us want to watch. It made I learned so much about the pageant. In the pageant world. We did the episode about the pageant that's right before this one. I learned so much. I had not. I didn't know the difference. So you Miss USA and Miss America of scholarships over here is a midling contract up here. I had no idea. But congratulations to her. You can't get any more sweet revenge or politic justice in that.

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Speaker 1: And you liked her the whole time. She you know what, she was so elegant, and look, I know, I get this is a modeling competition and usually skin cells and the sexier the better. But her dress, she was covered completely. It was so it was so different than everyone else's. I loved it. It was such a cool choice. So congratulations to miss Mexico.

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, we told you we get some good news, right, So there it is. But before we let you go, something we'd like for you to consider. It is our quote of the day, pulled once again from the files of TJ. Holmes and now Rope. Let's say good news. I don't know how this one's gonna make you feel, but it's timely quote to influence your output, control your input. When you hear foulness coming out of people, you don't have to wonder what people have been ingesting.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, that's that's interesting and very true, and yes, you can apply it when observing other people. But you should also be aware of this within yourself. When you start saying negative things, complaining just whatever it is negativity in general, you have to ask yourself, wait, why where am I? Where's my head, where's my heart, where's my energy? And why am I adding this to the world. I love that.

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Speaker 2: Gabby Bernstein has been when spending time with her, and that This is one of the things I remember. She got on to you about something I believe a lot you talking about reacting to something a certain way. She said, it doesn't matter what that person said or how they said to you. If you reacted that way, that was in you already. That does not matter if they said it nicely or they were mean. What you reacted was in you already.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I love when she said how many times and especially in an argument with perhaps someone who you love, could you just say that nicer or you didn't say that very nicely? Whatever? When you say that, that should be an aha moment. Wait, you should not be telling someone else how to handle you. You need to understand why you're reacting that way.

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Speaker 2: So cool, that's the good example right there, during an argument say it nicer.

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Speaker 1: But no, yeah, you don't have to say it so like that. Actually you need to be able to handle it.

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Speaker 2: So yes, folks, take that with you today. It's been allowed to talk this week about words what they mean, and I guess treating people a little better. But take this with you to influence your output, control your input. When you hear foulness coming out of people, you don't have to wonder what people have been ingesting and with that, folks, we appreciate you running with us this week. Good luck with whatever you're putting together for your holidays. We got one coming home from from college on this Friday that we are going to be hooking up with in New York. We haven't seen a little while.

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Speaker 1: We're very excited.

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Speaker 2: So the holidays happening in the first indication is kids start coming home.

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Speaker 1: Annals is coming home. Yes, everyone, thank you for listening to this Friday edition of Morning Roun.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ. Holmes talked to Elson