Dec. 23, 2025
Morning Run: Trump Shows Sympathy, Clinton Questions Transparency, GLP-1 Pill Approved, Call Of Duty Creator Dies, “Trump Class” Battleships, Barry Manilow Cancer and Christmas Powerball Jackpot
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone. It's Tuesday, December twenty third, or as I like to call it, Christmas Eve Eve.
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Speaker 2: I'm Abe Robot, yes, and I'm TJ. Holmes. Welcome to your Christmas Eve Eve Morning Run, brought to you by Trump, Amy and TJ Podcast. You haven't heard he has now put his name on our podcast? Now we were powerless to stop it. This is happening everywhere every day, is it not?
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Speaker 1: Now, it's actually I shouldn't laugh. It's actually it's a little scary rather than funny. But I don't know. Right now, all we can do is laugh.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's laugh about it. We'll we'll have fun with it today. But yes, Trump, if you haven't heard, 's put his name on yet something else that will be around for many, many years to come. We'll get into that, and yes, we'll keep a smile on our face about it. But a lot of people out there, of course, they're trying to get somewhere right now for the most part, right on Christmas Eve Eve, you wrapped up work at the office for the moment.
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Speaker 1: You will check every one of the than us and the central workers. Yes, but they are on their way to family and friends getting ready to celebrate Christmas.
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Speaker 2: And as we're recording this, if you're on the road and on your way now, which would be in the morning, you're doing good. You have really messed up if you wait until one in the afternoon. The Triple A tells us this today and tomorrow the worst day specifically to be on the road between one and seven pm.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, we know that, but unfortunately a lot of people have to work half a day. They have to. There's just reasons why it's impossible to leave in the morning. So yes, between one and seven you're going to be in trouble. And they actually Triple A actually laid out specific routes that are especially difficult today. They said, Detroit to Kalamazoo, if you left at ten am, you're going to add forty minutes more than you would have normally to your trip.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Houston to Galveston if you leave at five forty five pm, you're going to add what forty minutes as well to your trip. San Francisco to Sacramento. Wooh, listen to this. If you leave at five pm from San Francisco and you're heading to Sacramento. That would normally be a three hour and sixteen minute trip. Oh sorry, that would normally be a one hour and thirty minute trip. Just quick, it will now be three hours and sixteen minutes. So you're more than doubling your travel time.
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Speaker 2: Might as well wait and just go in the morning, going the overnight, don't.
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Speaker 1: That's what you would do. You'd wake up at one am and drive, but most people would not one.
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Speaker 2: And a half hour trip. I would have it down to thirty minutes.
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Speaker 1: Just play some Christmas music or some Amyan TJ podcast.
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Speaker 2: That's two hours. That's two I don't even want to listen to It's for two hours where you may be gee, have you going? Ope? You get there savely today and a lot of folks ropes are going to be dealing with a bit of a mess. This is the worst kind of weather. Almost in the Northeast. You're going to be dealing with, like just snow, do something me this slush.
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Speaker 1: Slush, freezing rain, sleep. Those are terrible. And then especially when it starts snowing and it's so pretty and christmasy, and then the rain.
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Speaker 2: Comes and just takes it all away. So that's what a lot of folks in the East are going to be dealing with some nasty web. They're gonna be some slushy, ugly stuff, light snow, freezing rain for the most part, and then out west from northern to southern California. It's going to start in the north within make its way south. They're getting some heavy, heavy rain and wind out there that could cause some.
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Speaker 1: Problems air travel right yes.
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Speaker 2: Air trying some flooding worries out there as well. So it's a little bit of a not the ideal week necessarily, but it will be an ideal week for folks who are getting out of town. If you're not going to Mama's house. A lot of people it's December, they want to go to warmer climates. I was surprised to see the top destinations domestically, at least for people during the holiday.
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Speaker 1: It's Florida Baby Orlando number one, Fort Lauderdale number two, Miami number three, Anaheim, LA Number four, Honolulu number five, Tampa number six. Wow, Florida has Florida four out of the six top destinations for Christmas. New York City number seven, Maui number eight, Dallas Fort Worth number nine. In Las Vegas tend so we are the only cold weather climate in the top ten destinations domestically.
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Speaker 2: But it's such a pretty place during the holiday. New York, Yes, so you could make an exception.
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Speaker 1: Does make sense.
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Speaker 2: I want to come get cold. But on the other side, all warm places as well. For the most popular international destinations for US Americans, Number one CanCon that makes sense. We went there last year, so did we really? Yes?
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Speaker 1: You always forget we went to We went for New Year's Eve, but yes, yes, I have to remind you it was last year. We went to kancun me and you, yes, just you, and we went after Christmas?
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Speaker 2: All right? Well, then two hot spot is Punta Kana. After that you go Cosmmeld and Costa Rica Port of art Over after that. So it makes sense people are going south for the winter to warmer spots, but most of us will be with family, be at home for the holiday, which is only a couple days away.
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Speaker 1: Now, yes, sorry, we cannot wait to talk more about that. But also on the run this morning, the Brown Leasee chief has been placed on leave following that mass shooting. A video game pioneer has died in a caught on camera Ferrari Crash GOLP ones now have been approved in the pill form, and President Trump shows some sympathy. The surprise, though, is not just that, but also to whom he showed that sympathy to after the Epstein files release and also along for our run with us this morning will be Barry Manilow, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, and the Kansas City chiefs. But first up on this Tuesday morning run, Congress passed a law to force the release of the Epstein files. We all know that, right, Well, now they actually need to want to pass another law to enforce that law. That is the most ridiculous concept ever.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. This way is the point of a law.
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Speaker 1: If you have to get another law to enforce previous law, and.
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Speaker 2: Then there's gonna be another one after that, and this won't stop. But send it democratically. Chuck Schumer says he's going to introduce a resolution that would direct the Senate to take legal action against the Department of Justice for failing to release all of the Epstein files.
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Speaker 1: This, of course, comes after the original sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act suggested that ag Pambondi be held in contempt like actually suggesting she should be put in prison until all the files are released. Were fairly certain that is not going to happen, but it was certainly used as a salacious headline.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we heard from the President for the first time yesterday. Remember he was avoiding taking questions when the Epstein files were supposed to be released, while he finally spoke out about their partial release.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he expressed sympathy for the innocent folks connected to Epstein. You didn't think I was going to say sympathy for the victims. Did you express sympathy for the innocent folks whose names have.
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Speaker 1: Shown it because he considers himself among them.
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Speaker 2: Possibly, he said, quote, A lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein, but they're in a picture with him because he was at a party, and you ruin a reputation of somebody.
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Speaker 1: He specifically mentioned former President Bill Clinton. Here is what Trump had to say. I don't like the picture of Bill Clinton being shown. I don't like the picture of other people shown. I think it's a terrible thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he mentioned Clinton, and we did hear from Clinton yesterday. As well, at least through a spokesperson the former president, insisting that the DOJ release everything related to President Clinton.
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Speaker 1: I actually really appreciate this. Here is what the statement said. What the DOJ has released so far, and the manner in which it did so makes one thing clear. Someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why, but we do know this we need no such protection.
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Speaker 2: That's strong. That is a very strong get me get it all out to clear my freakin' name of any of this foolish.
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Speaker 1: I want you to show the receipts.
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Speaker 2: But this is pretty strong statement too. This is coming from the former president who is now clearly putting himself on board with victims and everybody else who thinks there's a cover up of some kind going on. That's a huge statement. It went on to call for the release of all materials referring to mentioning or containing a photograph of Bill Clinton, saying quote refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion that the DJ's actions to date are not about transparency but about insinuation, using selective releases to imply wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared by the very same d J. That's a strong statement and it's needed. I miss this. We don't watch a lot of Sunday the Sunday Talk, But on Meet the Press, Todd Blanche was asked directly about the possibility the DJ had an investigation in Bill Clinton. He said, no comment. I'm not going to comment on possible investigations.
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Speaker 1: Which, of course like throws the door wide open, insinuating as President Clinton kind of suggest there to say no. Yeah, you're allowed to say no.
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Speaker 2: No, there's no investigation. That's not violating an investigation if that's not one.
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Speaker 1: I applaud President Clinton's strong language and his strong stance. Show everything, please all right. Next up on the Run, the Brown University police chief has been placed on leave pending a review of the December thirteenth shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured. We're talking about Chief Rodney Chapman. There was now a commission to review campus safety, which obviously is needed. We saw the clear lack of cameras and security in that building that could have at least quickly apprehended this man, but certainly maybe even would have been a preventative measure in place because he clearly knew that there were not cameras. The Department of Education has also launched a review of security procedures at Brown as well.
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Speaker 2: I continue on the run here now with huge news here from the FDA. They've approved the first ever oral GLP one medication. Isn't it's all been injectable to this point.
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Speaker 1: And who like that is such a deterrent? Who wants to inject themselves with anything? I don't. I can't think of one person to be like, please sign me up.
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Speaker 2: It's just as effective, they say as the injections. This one is what Cove that's made what govy Am, I saying the right with govy It's made by Novo Nordisks, that drug maker. But they have been given the okay to make this in pill form. It will be a daily pill. It's going to be available, they say, almost immediately, in a matter of weeks. Ah, the stuff's out that we're not exactly sure how much this is going to cost you. They're working out things with the insurance companies and whatnot, but they say it is going to be ready soon. And their competitor, Eli Lilly, they're working on their version as well, expecting another pill version to be ready. This is gonna be a game changer in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy because I just remember growing up. You know, folks who were pushing exercise and eating right, which of course is the gold standard in keeping a healthy weight, would always say there is no magic pill. I mean that was always what they would say. You have to put in the work, you have to show discipline. So it turns out it actually looks like there might be a magic pill.
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Speaker 2: Damn wow. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, a pioneering video game developer behind some of the most popular games in the world has died in a fiery Ferrari crash. As in actual life imitating art. It was all captured on video. We're talking about Vince Zampella, just fifty five years old. He is the man behind the wildly popular game Call of Duty. I mean, I have to say I didn't love it, but my daughter's played it and love it. And actually even as like young adults will sit there in their bedrooms and play Call of Duty together on THEOD.
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Speaker 2: How many versions of it have come out now it's just a worldwide phenomenon. But Zampella was driving a Ferrari. It was on a scenic highway just north of Los Angeles. Now this video is out there and it shows this Ferrari, red Ferrari speeding out coming out of a tunnel. It's being recorded. Some people kind of on the side of the road of know what was got happening, but they were there to see it come out. But came out flying losers control, hits a concrete barrier and then they realize, oh my god, you could tell the people were filming. Somebody goes over. They pull someone out. The passenger was ejected and Zampella here was in the car as it was on fire. He was declared dead at the scene. The passenger was declared dead at the hospital with terrible, terrible video to see fifty five.
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Speaker 1: Man, God, that is so sad and scary, and.
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Speaker 2: You know that you know what to mention here. Everybody understands this at eight hundred and nineteen horsepower car, this is a four hundred thousand dollars Ferraries. Just there was a lot of power. It was awful here fifty five years old, but qute an impact all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, as we mentioned, at the top of the podcast. Trump keeps naming stuff after himself. Yesterday he announced a new class of powerful battleships named after well him. Of course, it's called the Trump Class of Ships. Yes, this is all a part of the expansion of the US Navy. The first ship, he says, we'll be ready in just two and a half years, and this is going to be a part of his legacy. There was some very well, I would just say, positive words said about President Trump at the press conference by Pete peg Seth and others. Everyone kissing the ring at the ceremony.
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Speaker 2: So to speak. Why they're just honoring the president in the office. Continuing on the run here now we're going to turn to Berry Manilo with the legendary Barry Manilo. He's revealed he has lung cancer. The eighty two year old gay fans the update on social media, saying that he had a recent bout of bronchitis, went on for weeks, but he got over that, but his doctor, just to be safe, wanted to order an MRI.
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Speaker 1: This is actually remarkable. They found in that MRI a cancerous spot on his left lung that he is going to have to have surgically removed, but Manelo says this it is pure luck that it was found this early. Look, lung cancer is never found early, almost never, i should say, because once symptoms start to show, you're usually already age four. Unfortunately, so his doctor said, they do not believe that it's spread. So that means he is not going to have chemo, no radiation, he said, just chicken soup and I love Lucy reruns. He apologized to fans though he does have to reschedule his January concerts, but he said in February it's going to be a party. Like he's already predicting that. He said, I'm very sorry that you have to change your plans, which is kind given the fact that he just got a cancer diagnosis. But my goodness, that is a look. That is an amazing story. It's rare, but it is a reminder. He said, everyone, if you have any symptoms, go like just get checked.
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Speaker 2: And he gave his doctor so much credit in that note that he wrote on social media. He said, the guy is just good and saved his life. He absolutely has. And it's always cool in these artists, they apologize to the when they're sick. The vocal. They apologize to the fans for the inconvenience, and I don't know that always just to me, says something sometimes about the artist, and also says something that he was joking about watching I Love of Lucy Reaver. Yes, yes, I'll stay with us on this Christmas Eve eve run. When we come back to the NFL, Well, it sided with Amy Robock in a debate we had here yesterday. We'll explain. Also, the Kansas City Chiefs are moving, but not out of Kansas City, but out of the state. We'll explain. And somebody please win the damn powerball. We continue on this Christmas Eve eve run and the NFL apparently has agreed with Robes that what we saw was more than a swipe, which is how I described Pittsburgh's dealers receiver DK Metcalf and his interaction with a fan on Sunday. Well, yes, you know the video by now looks like he took a swipe at this fan who was in the front row but up in the stands with the NFL now says they are going to suspend dk Metcalf for two games without pay. This is stuff for the NFL. You initiated the interaction with the fan. It doesn't matter what the fan was saying at all. You had to go reach up there and do something, so you are the one responsible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how they held words cannot be met with a fist, And it was a fist. There was not a swipe. A swipe is something you do on your phone, swipe or no swiping From Dora the Explorer, this was a fist.
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Speaker 2: He swiped hard left, I should say.
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Speaker 1: With a closed fist. All right. Next up on the run, the Kansas City Chiefs are moving. They're gonna still be in Kansas City, but not in Kansas City, Missouri. The team has entered into an agreement with Kansas legislators, who yesterday approved a bond package to help finance a new domed stadium for the team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Missouri tried to keep them, but actually they frankly got another better financial offer from the other side, and sure enough they took it for Missouri. You stop and think about it. They keep losing NFL teams. Saint Louis lost two. You remember, yes, the Rams and the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: You and I both lived in Missouri. I lived there for eight years. We called it misery sometimes and this might be a reason why.
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Speaker 2: I didn't do that. I knew I wouldn't be there long, and I didn't want anybody to hear me.
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Speaker 1: I lived there for eight years. But you know what they call it in Missouri, Missurra misuri Missourira.
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Speaker 2: Missouri ain't got no more NFL team. They lost the Cardinals out of Saint Louis to Arizona, and they lost the Rams out of Saint Louis to.
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Speaker 1: La Now, well it is misery at least for those folks right now, you know it's a play on words.
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Speaker 2: Right. Finally, your folks, you said, you know what, this is going to make it a better story. Final here at Powerball, the drawing now is going to be on Wednesday night, So somebody is going to have a great Christmas Eve. Somebody is literally going to wake up on Christmas morning, check their tickets and go, holy hell, a story.
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Speaker 1: That's actually really really that's a good story. I like that. And guess what I checked. We we matched a power Ball, so we won four dollars. I'm super excited, don't I'm gonna go scan a little thing and get my four dollars back as a reinvestment for another lottery ticket for Christmas Eve. I'm gonna keep trying.
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Speaker 2: Is that the plan? But yeah, is up to one point seven billion, now one point seven billion. We're all gonna buy tickets. But somebody on Christmas morning litter relief. Oh that's the story. God, it's gonna be the story. That's the only reason that we've gone through all this is it's going to make a beautiful story for somebody literally on Christmas to wake up a.
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Speaker 1: Billion Maybe that person will actually tell us there's you know, I get it. If you win the lottery, no one wants to tell anybody that they won for a million reasons. But wouldn't it be so fun if we actually got to hear the story. I hope we get to.
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Speaker 2: Well, they would never hear from us again.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Amy and TJ's podcast goes poof.
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Speaker 2: Yep, no press release, no nothing. Hey, before we let you go on this Christmas Eve, something we would like for you to take with you. It is our quote of the day. How about this one for you today? Roll if you were speaking about this the other day, and I will share this and I quote, your friendship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. I think you actually mentioned this, maybe just yesterday something.
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Speaker 1: Along these ty Yes, I've been working on it. I know it sounds super cheesy, but we ignore the relationship we have with ourselves and what we think of ourselves and how we treat ourselves, and that absolutely impacts how we treat our children, how we treat our spouses, how we treat our friends. All of it comes from that first self love.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? Start there? If you want to improve every relationship around you, improve the one you have with yourself first, and things will likely start to fall in place. Your friendship with yourself sets the tone where every other relationship you have, and with that, folks, good luck. I know some of y'all are still tracking them down those last few gifts, no doubt. Actually we're heading out this morning to do a couple of few things, so we get it. But we always appreciate you taking a run with us, and I'm Amy Robock.
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Speaker 1: I have a great day, everybody. We'll run with you soon. M h m hm
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Speaker 2: M hm.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone. It's Tuesday, December twenty third, or as I like to call it, Christmas Eve Eve.
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Speaker 2: I'm Abe Robot, yes, and I'm TJ. Holmes. Welcome to your Christmas Eve Eve Morning Run, brought to you by Trump, Amy and TJ Podcast. You haven't heard he has now put his name on our podcast? Now we were powerless to stop it. This is happening everywhere every day, is it not?
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Speaker 1: Now, it's actually I shouldn't laugh. It's actually it's a little scary rather than funny. But I don't know. Right now, all we can do is laugh.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's laugh about it. We'll we'll have fun with it today. But yes, Trump, if you haven't heard, 's put his name on yet something else that will be around for many, many years to come. We'll get into that, and yes, we'll keep a smile on our face about it. But a lot of people out there, of course, they're trying to get somewhere right now for the most part, right on Christmas Eve Eve, you wrapped up work at the office for the moment.
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Speaker 1: You will check every one of the than us and the central workers. Yes, but they are on their way to family and friends getting ready to celebrate Christmas.
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Speaker 2: And as we're recording this, if you're on the road and on your way now, which would be in the morning, you're doing good. You have really messed up if you wait until one in the afternoon. The Triple A tells us this today and tomorrow the worst day specifically to be on the road between one and seven pm.
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Speaker 1: And you know what, we know that, but unfortunately a lot of people have to work half a day. They have to. There's just reasons why it's impossible to leave in the morning. So yes, between one and seven you're going to be in trouble. And they actually Triple A actually laid out specific routes that are especially difficult today. They said, Detroit to Kalamazoo, if you left at ten am, you're going to add forty minutes more than you would have normally to your trip.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: Houston to Galveston if you leave at five forty five pm, you're going to add what forty minutes as well to your trip. San Francisco to Sacramento. Wooh, listen to this. If you leave at five pm from San Francisco and you're heading to Sacramento. That would normally be a three hour and sixteen minute trip. Oh sorry, that would normally be a one hour and thirty minute trip. Just quick, it will now be three hours and sixteen minutes. So you're more than doubling your travel time.
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Speaker 2: Might as well wait and just go in the morning, going the overnight, don't.
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Speaker 1: That's what you would do. You'd wake up at one am and drive, but most people would not one.
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Speaker 2: And a half hour trip. I would have it down to thirty minutes.
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Speaker 1: Just play some Christmas music or some Amyan TJ podcast.
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Speaker 2: That's two hours. That's two I don't even want to listen to It's for two hours where you may be gee, have you going? Ope? You get there savely today and a lot of folks ropes are going to be dealing with a bit of a mess. This is the worst kind of weather. Almost in the Northeast. You're going to be dealing with, like just snow, do something me this slush.
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Speaker 1: Slush, freezing rain, sleep. Those are terrible. And then especially when it starts snowing and it's so pretty and christmasy, and then the rain.
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Speaker 2: Comes and just takes it all away. So that's what a lot of folks in the East are going to be dealing with some nasty web. They're gonna be some slushy, ugly stuff, light snow, freezing rain for the most part, and then out west from northern to southern California. It's going to start in the north within make its way south. They're getting some heavy, heavy rain and wind out there that could cause some.
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Speaker 1: Problems air travel right yes.
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Speaker 2: Air trying some flooding worries out there as well. So it's a little bit of a not the ideal week necessarily, but it will be an ideal week for folks who are getting out of town. If you're not going to Mama's house. A lot of people it's December, they want to go to warmer climates. I was surprised to see the top destinations domestically, at least for people during the holiday.
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Speaker 1: It's Florida Baby Orlando number one, Fort Lauderdale number two, Miami number three, Anaheim, LA Number four, Honolulu number five, Tampa number six. Wow, Florida has Florida four out of the six top destinations for Christmas. New York City number seven, Maui number eight, Dallas Fort Worth number nine. In Las Vegas tend so we are the only cold weather climate in the top ten destinations domestically.
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Speaker 2: But it's such a pretty place during the holiday. New York, Yes, so you could make an exception.
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Speaker 1: Does make sense.
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Speaker 2: I want to come get cold. But on the other side, all warm places as well. For the most popular international destinations for US Americans, Number one CanCon that makes sense. We went there last year, so did we really? Yes?
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Speaker 1: You always forget we went to We went for New Year's Eve, but yes, yes, I have to remind you it was last year. We went to kancun me and you, yes, just you, and we went after Christmas?
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Speaker 2: All right? Well, then two hot spot is Punta Kana. After that you go Cosmmeld and Costa Rica Port of art Over after that. So it makes sense people are going south for the winter to warmer spots, but most of us will be with family, be at home for the holiday, which is only a couple days away.
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Speaker 1: Now, yes, sorry, we cannot wait to talk more about that. But also on the run this morning, the Brown Leasee chief has been placed on leave following that mass shooting. A video game pioneer has died in a caught on camera Ferrari Crash GOLP ones now have been approved in the pill form, and President Trump shows some sympathy. The surprise, though, is not just that, but also to whom he showed that sympathy to after the Epstein files release and also along for our run with us this morning will be Barry Manilow, Chuck Schumer, Bill Clinton, and the Kansas City chiefs. But first up on this Tuesday morning run, Congress passed a law to force the release of the Epstein files. We all know that, right, Well, now they actually need to want to pass another law to enforce that law. That is the most ridiculous concept ever.
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Speaker 2: Here we go. This way is the point of a law.
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Speaker 1: If you have to get another law to enforce previous law, and.
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Speaker 2: Then there's gonna be another one after that, and this won't stop. But send it democratically. Chuck Schumer says he's going to introduce a resolution that would direct the Senate to take legal action against the Department of Justice for failing to release all of the Epstein files.
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Speaker 1: This, of course, comes after the original sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act suggested that ag Pambondi be held in contempt like actually suggesting she should be put in prison until all the files are released. Were fairly certain that is not going to happen, but it was certainly used as a salacious headline.
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Speaker 2: Oh wow.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we heard from the President for the first time yesterday. Remember he was avoiding taking questions when the Epstein files were supposed to be released, while he finally spoke out about their partial release.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he expressed sympathy for the innocent folks connected to Epstein. You didn't think I was going to say sympathy for the victims. Did you express sympathy for the innocent folks whose names have.
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Speaker 1: Shown it because he considers himself among them.
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Speaker 2: Possibly, he said, quote, A lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people that really had nothing to do with Epstein, but they're in a picture with him because he was at a party, and you ruin a reputation of somebody.
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Speaker 1: He specifically mentioned former President Bill Clinton. Here is what Trump had to say. I don't like the picture of Bill Clinton being shown. I don't like the picture of other people shown. I think it's a terrible thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he mentioned Clinton, and we did hear from Clinton yesterday. As well, at least through a spokesperson the former president, insisting that the DOJ release everything related to President Clinton.
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Speaker 1: I actually really appreciate this. Here is what the statement said. What the DOJ has released so far, and the manner in which it did so makes one thing clear. Someone or something is being protected. We do not know whom, what or why, but we do know this we need no such protection.
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Speaker 2: That's strong. That is a very strong get me get it all out to clear my freakin' name of any of this foolish.
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Speaker 1: I want you to show the receipts.
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Speaker 2: But this is pretty strong statement too. This is coming from the former president who is now clearly putting himself on board with victims and everybody else who thinks there's a cover up of some kind going on. That's a huge statement. It went on to call for the release of all materials referring to mentioning or containing a photograph of Bill Clinton, saying quote refusal to do so will confirm the widespread suspicion that the DJ's actions to date are not about transparency but about insinuation, using selective releases to imply wrongdoing about individuals who have already been repeatedly cleared by the very same d J. That's a strong statement and it's needed. I miss this. We don't watch a lot of Sunday the Sunday Talk, But on Meet the Press, Todd Blanche was asked directly about the possibility the DJ had an investigation in Bill Clinton. He said, no comment. I'm not going to comment on possible investigations.
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Speaker 1: Which, of course like throws the door wide open, insinuating as President Clinton kind of suggest there to say no. Yeah, you're allowed to say no.
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Speaker 2: No, there's no investigation. That's not violating an investigation if that's not one.
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Speaker 1: I applaud President Clinton's strong language and his strong stance. Show everything, please all right. Next up on the Run, the Brown University police chief has been placed on leave pending a review of the December thirteenth shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured. We're talking about Chief Rodney Chapman. There was now a commission to review campus safety, which obviously is needed. We saw the clear lack of cameras and security in that building that could have at least quickly apprehended this man, but certainly maybe even would have been a preventative measure in place because he clearly knew that there were not cameras. The Department of Education has also launched a review of security procedures at Brown as well.
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Speaker 2: I continue on the run here now with huge news here from the FDA. They've approved the first ever oral GLP one medication. Isn't it's all been injectable to this point.
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Speaker 1: And who like that is such a deterrent? Who wants to inject themselves with anything? I don't. I can't think of one person to be like, please sign me up.
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Speaker 2: It's just as effective, they say as the injections. This one is what Cove that's made what govy Am, I saying the right with govy It's made by Novo Nordisks, that drug maker. But they have been given the okay to make this in pill form. It will be a daily pill. It's going to be available, they say, almost immediately, in a matter of weeks. Ah, the stuff's out that we're not exactly sure how much this is going to cost you. They're working out things with the insurance companies and whatnot, but they say it is going to be ready soon. And their competitor, Eli Lilly, they're working on their version as well, expecting another pill version to be ready. This is gonna be a game changer in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy because I just remember growing up. You know, folks who were pushing exercise and eating right, which of course is the gold standard in keeping a healthy weight, would always say there is no magic pill. I mean that was always what they would say. You have to put in the work, you have to show discipline. So it turns out it actually looks like there might be a magic pill.
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Speaker 2: Damn wow. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, a pioneering video game developer behind some of the most popular games in the world has died in a fiery Ferrari crash. As in actual life imitating art. It was all captured on video. We're talking about Vince Zampella, just fifty five years old. He is the man behind the wildly popular game Call of Duty. I mean, I have to say I didn't love it, but my daughter's played it and love it. And actually even as like young adults will sit there in their bedrooms and play Call of Duty together on THEOD.
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Speaker 2: How many versions of it have come out now it's just a worldwide phenomenon. But Zampella was driving a Ferrari. It was on a scenic highway just north of Los Angeles. Now this video is out there and it shows this Ferrari, red Ferrari speeding out coming out of a tunnel. It's being recorded. Some people kind of on the side of the road of know what was got happening, but they were there to see it come out. But came out flying losers control, hits a concrete barrier and then they realize, oh my god, you could tell the people were filming. Somebody goes over. They pull someone out. The passenger was ejected and Zampella here was in the car as it was on fire. He was declared dead at the scene. The passenger was declared dead at the hospital with terrible, terrible video to see fifty five.
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Speaker 1: Man, God, that is so sad and scary, and.
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Speaker 2: You know that you know what to mention here. Everybody understands this at eight hundred and nineteen horsepower car, this is a four hundred thousand dollars Ferraries. Just there was a lot of power. It was awful here fifty five years old, but qute an impact all right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, as we mentioned, at the top of the podcast. Trump keeps naming stuff after himself. Yesterday he announced a new class of powerful battleships named after well him. Of course, it's called the Trump Class of Ships. Yes, this is all a part of the expansion of the US Navy. The first ship, he says, we'll be ready in just two and a half years, and this is going to be a part of his legacy. There was some very well, I would just say, positive words said about President Trump at the press conference by Pete peg Seth and others. Everyone kissing the ring at the ceremony.
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Speaker 2: So to speak. Why they're just honoring the president in the office. Continuing on the run here now we're going to turn to Berry Manilo with the legendary Barry Manilo. He's revealed he has lung cancer. The eighty two year old gay fans the update on social media, saying that he had a recent bout of bronchitis, went on for weeks, but he got over that, but his doctor, just to be safe, wanted to order an MRI.
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Speaker 1: This is actually remarkable. They found in that MRI a cancerous spot on his left lung that he is going to have to have surgically removed, but Manelo says this it is pure luck that it was found this early. Look, lung cancer is never found early, almost never, i should say, because once symptoms start to show, you're usually already age four. Unfortunately, so his doctor said, they do not believe that it's spread. So that means he is not going to have chemo, no radiation, he said, just chicken soup and I love Lucy reruns. He apologized to fans though he does have to reschedule his January concerts, but he said in February it's going to be a party. Like he's already predicting that. He said, I'm very sorry that you have to change your plans, which is kind given the fact that he just got a cancer diagnosis. But my goodness, that is a look. That is an amazing story. It's rare, but it is a reminder. He said, everyone, if you have any symptoms, go like just get checked.
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Speaker 2: And he gave his doctor so much credit in that note that he wrote on social media. He said, the guy is just good and saved his life. He absolutely has. And it's always cool in these artists, they apologize to the when they're sick. The vocal. They apologize to the fans for the inconvenience, and I don't know that always just to me, says something sometimes about the artist, and also says something that he was joking about watching I Love of Lucy Reaver. Yes, yes, I'll stay with us on this Christmas Eve eve run. When we come back to the NFL, Well, it sided with Amy Robock in a debate we had here yesterday. We'll explain. Also, the Kansas City Chiefs are moving, but not out of Kansas City, but out of the state. We'll explain. And somebody please win the damn powerball. We continue on this Christmas Eve eve run and the NFL apparently has agreed with Robes that what we saw was more than a swipe, which is how I described Pittsburgh's dealers receiver DK Metcalf and his interaction with a fan on Sunday. Well, yes, you know the video by now looks like he took a swipe at this fan who was in the front row but up in the stands with the NFL now says they are going to suspend dk Metcalf for two games without pay. This is stuff for the NFL. You initiated the interaction with the fan. It doesn't matter what the fan was saying at all. You had to go reach up there and do something, so you are the one responsible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how they held words cannot be met with a fist, And it was a fist. There was not a swipe. A swipe is something you do on your phone, swipe or no swiping From Dora the Explorer, this was a fist.
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Speaker 2: He swiped hard left, I should say.
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Speaker 1: With a closed fist. All right. Next up on the run, the Kansas City Chiefs are moving. They're gonna still be in Kansas City, but not in Kansas City, Missouri. The team has entered into an agreement with Kansas legislators, who yesterday approved a bond package to help finance a new domed stadium for the team.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Missouri tried to keep them, but actually they frankly got another better financial offer from the other side, and sure enough they took it for Missouri. You stop and think about it. They keep losing NFL teams. Saint Louis lost two. You remember, yes, the Rams and the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: You and I both lived in Missouri. I lived there for eight years. We called it misery sometimes and this might be a reason why.
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Speaker 2: I didn't do that. I knew I wouldn't be there long, and I didn't want anybody to hear me.
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Speaker 1: I lived there for eight years. But you know what they call it in Missouri, Missurra misuri Missourira.
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Speaker 2: Missouri ain't got no more NFL team. They lost the Cardinals out of Saint Louis to Arizona, and they lost the Rams out of Saint Louis to.
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Speaker 1: La Now, well it is misery at least for those folks right now, you know it's a play on words.
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Speaker 2: Right. Finally, your folks, you said, you know what, this is going to make it a better story. Final here at Powerball, the drawing now is going to be on Wednesday night, So somebody is going to have a great Christmas Eve. Somebody is literally going to wake up on Christmas morning, check their tickets and go, holy hell, a story.
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Speaker 1: That's actually really really that's a good story. I like that. And guess what I checked. We we matched a power Ball, so we won four dollars. I'm super excited, don't I'm gonna go scan a little thing and get my four dollars back as a reinvestment for another lottery ticket for Christmas Eve. I'm gonna keep trying.
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Speaker 2: Is that the plan? But yeah, is up to one point seven billion, now one point seven billion. We're all gonna buy tickets. But somebody on Christmas morning litter relief. Oh that's the story. God, it's gonna be the story. That's the only reason that we've gone through all this is it's going to make a beautiful story for somebody literally on Christmas to wake up a.
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Speaker 1: Billion Maybe that person will actually tell us there's you know, I get it. If you win the lottery, no one wants to tell anybody that they won for a million reasons. But wouldn't it be so fun if we actually got to hear the story. I hope we get to.
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Speaker 2: Well, they would never hear from us again.
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Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Amy and TJ's podcast goes poof.
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Speaker 2: Yep, no press release, no nothing. Hey, before we let you go on this Christmas Eve, something we would like for you to take with you. It is our quote of the day. How about this one for you today? Roll if you were speaking about this the other day, and I will share this and I quote, your friendship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. I think you actually mentioned this, maybe just yesterday something.
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Speaker 1: Along these ty Yes, I've been working on it. I know it sounds super cheesy, but we ignore the relationship we have with ourselves and what we think of ourselves and how we treat ourselves, and that absolutely impacts how we treat our children, how we treat our spouses, how we treat our friends. All of it comes from that first self love.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? Start there? If you want to improve every relationship around you, improve the one you have with yourself first, and things will likely start to fall in place. Your friendship with yourself sets the tone where every other relationship you have, and with that, folks, good luck. I know some of y'all are still tracking them down those last few gifts, no doubt. Actually we're heading out this morning to do a couple of few things, so we get it. But we always appreciate you taking a run with us, and I'm Amy Robock.
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Speaker 1: I have a great day, everybody. We'll run with you soon. M h m hm
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Speaker 2: M hm.