Oct. 15, 2025
Morning Run: Trump Time Mag Photo, Pentagon Press Exodus, Trump Boston Threat, Shutdown Day 15, Kirk Medal of Freedom and RIP D’Angelo
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run. It's Wednesday, October fifteenth. I'm Amy Robots.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes, and I guess a lot of you all are like us, been listening to NonStop Dangelo music for the past twenty four hours or so. This was Look, we knew he had been battling cancer, but it's still sting. Fifty one years old. Dangelo a Grammy winner and a pioneer that a lot of people are actually starting to learn about. They know his music. I'll surprised how many folks didn't know who he was, but they knew of his songs.
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Speaker 1: I have been in that camp and have been listening alongside you and just yeah, what a just an amazing sound and feel smooth and it's sad all at once. It's nice to honor him, it's not nice to remember him, but it's just gutting to think that someone that talented and that incredible just had his life cut so short by this ininsidious disease.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty one years old. We'll be talking about him this morning. Also, Look, Trump has a point on this one. I know, sometimes people think, okay, he's oh, he's too much into his image and what he looks like sounds okay. This is one. I think he's got a decent gripe about this picture.
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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: He's upset about the Time magazine cover photo of him. And if you all haven't looked it up, please do so. And we believe you will agree with Trump. You might disagree with him on every other thing, but you will agree with him on this. It's hard to argue that that is a terrible, like almost a deliberately terrible photo.
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Speaker 3: It feels deliberate.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a better photos. There is a better photo. All right, we'll get into that a little bit this morning. Also, just about everybody right roades handed their press credentials at the Pentagon yesterday on a story that continues. And look, the news organizations on this one got together and rejected the Pentagon.
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Speaker 1: That is the silver lining in this otherwise very dark and dire story. But I did appreciate the fact that despite being a conservative leaning organization or a liberal leaning organization, everyone actually came together and there was a joint statement among broadcasting press members, which I thought was fairly remarkable.
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Speaker 2: That lets you know how remarkable this moment is. We will get into that. And also, as always on that Apple podcast app top right corner of your screen where it says follow, click that button subscribe and we can make sure you're you always get the updates from us and you don't have to go looking for him. Do you want to let you know? Also on the run this morning, we'll be talking about what we saw at the White House yesterday with that Metal of Freedom ceremony. Also the update on the shutdown. It will be a very short update. Also, some frustration as the ceasefire is now being called tenuous. Also, the President has threatened the city of Boston gonna take something away from Boston, possibly that he has no power to do. Also, Alex Jones is pissed at the Supreme Court and he's still on the hook for what one point four billion dollars. Tom is going PG thirteen and two executions in the United States last night, another one set for today, another one set on Friday. We'll tell you what's going on.
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Speaker 1: All right, But we do begin our run overseas on this Wednesday morning, and the much celebrated ceasefire in the Middle East is now being described as fragile, as frustration and frankly even anger is growing now at the pace at which HAMAS is returning the remains of hostages. As part of the ceasefire deal, Hamas was to return all living hostages, which they did, but also the remains of the twenty eight deceased hostages.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of celebration, a lot of hope because those twenty living hostages came out right on time, reunited with their families. The remains of four were initially released earlier this week, followed yesterday by the release of the remains of four more hostages. However, now CNN and other news outlets are reporting that one set of remains was not that of an Israeli. President Trump has chimed in as well. He said we are on phase two of the peace plan. But he issued this warning for Hamas. If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. It'll happen quickly and perhaps violently. It's the good thing to remember here, Robes. Yes, the living hostages, but families want the remains of their loved ones as well, which is just as big of a deal to those families. So it's not like we can just dismiss well that just the remains. We'll get to that later. No, no, no, this is a very very important part, and this is now threatening a ceasefire that we were all celebrating just a couple days.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge part of most religion's faith to be able to honor and bury those who have died. And so this is, yes, a huge point of issue, and we certainly hope it gets resolved quickly. All right, Next up on the run, we are heading to the Pentagon, and the deadline has come and gone, and so is every major media outlet. Fox News joined ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, along with just about every print media outlet in ref fusing to sign the Defense Department's new press policy, which basically requires reporters to get DoD approval before releasing any even non classified information.
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Speaker 2: Yeah News organization's police put out a joint statement yesterday saying today we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon's new requirements, which would wish restrict journalist's ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protection. Now, as of Tuesday's five o'clock deadline, only one news organization had signed on to the policy. One America News that is a conservative and certainly more so MAGA friendly organization.
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Speaker 1: It's described as Yes, So they are the only ones, as far as we can see, who have agreed to this new policy. Fox's decision to join the other networks, we should point out is notable considering the Trump friendly views of many of its hosts, and especially considering the man behind the new rules. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as you might remember, is a former Box News anchor, and we want to read you something The Atlantic posted on x that pretty much sums up the gravity of the situation. Starting Wednesday, for the first time since the Pentagon opened in nineteen forty three, there will be likely no major news outlets accredited to cover the department, the one spending nearly one trillion dollars of taxpayer money.
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Speaker 2: Look, but they're standing by the decision. Over there at the Pentagon Press Association over there did asks for them to reconsider the new rules, and Hegseth defended them alongside President Trump, saying it's common sense stuff. Mister President. We're trying to make sure national security is respected, and we're proud of the policy. Given their staying, I can't imagine this changing during his administration. I don't think they're going to rethink it.
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Speaker 1: Chris, I agree with you, and it is unprecedented and it is frightening.
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Speaker 3: All right. Next up on the.
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Speaker 1: Run, an update on the government shutdown. And as we mentioned it the top, this is going to be short and sweet because there's not a lot to say. Today is now day fifteen of the shutdown. And oh, by the way, the Senate voted yesterday on a funding bill to reopen the government.
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Speaker 2: It was a close one, No, it wasn't. It's the same damn bill They've been voted on what seven times before? They've done it, so, as expected, it failed an eighth time yesterday. No votes are scheduled for today. No sign of this thing ending anytime soon. If it goes throughout the end of the week at least robes, this will be the third longest shutdown in history, and by mid next week it will be the second longest government shut down in US history.
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Speaker 3: Hmm. I wonder if we'll get there, all right?
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Charlie Kirk posthumously received the president Medal of Freedom yesterday at a Rose Garden ceremony.
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Speaker 3: His wife, Erica Kirk, accepted.
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Speaker 1: On his behalf on what would have been his thirty second birthday.
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Speaker 2: This was in the Rose Garden. Wasn't this the inaugural event? Yes, well, the revamped Rose Guard.
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Speaker 1: The President tauted that as he began.
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Speaker 3: His speech, I have to say, looks nice. It does look really look nice.
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Speaker 1: He knows a thing or two about architecture and building things and making deals.
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Speaker 2: He wants to remind you. The Presidential Medal of Freedom will remind you as the highest civilian honor award in the US, and recognized his individuals for a lifetime of achievement in public service, the arts and whatnot. Usually we see a group of them. I think they're going to do it later in November. But this was the first one he's done, and he got his own moment. Charlie Kirk did, I wrote, he wrote, you know, I do some deep dives on this stuff, and I go too deep. So for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, there have been two people that have gotten it twice. One of them was Colon Powell.
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Speaker 3: Didn't know that.
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Speaker 2: Got it from Bush and got it from Obama. I by but two. That was really really impressive. I'm sorry that stopped me in my tracks as I was doing that research. Now. On the same day that Charlie Kirk was being recognized, the White House also announced it had revoked the visas of six foreigners for comments they made about Kirk's death. Their social media posts, according to the White House, included content that was deemed to mock Charlie Kirk's death.
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Speaker 1: So the administration said the six were from Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, and South Africa, and the State Department said in a statement that the President will defend our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws. Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed. Didn't that stick out to you that we are now defending our culture?
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Speaker 3: Wow?
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Speaker 2: We don't agree what it is.
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Speaker 3: Right, that's the problem there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the language is everything. And to say that we're going to I don't know, man, we can't agree on that. We'll continue here on the run. President Trump, well, he threatened to have next year's scheduled World Cup games removed from Boston. Now the city and in particular New England Patriots Stadium there in Foxborough. It's going to be used as one of several sites for the World Cup next year, which is going to take place in the US, Mexico and Canada and several cities.
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Speaker 1: Yes, everyone's so excited about this, right, we're oh so excited. All right. Well, the President was asked yesterday about recent classes in Boston between police and protesters and if that could have any impact on the upcoming World Games there. Trump responded with this, we could take them away. I love the people of Boston, and I know the games are sold out, but your mayor is not good.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So can he do this? Will he do this? Well, he was told he couldn't put National Guard troops on the streets of DC and Memphis, and well they're there. So he actually does not have the authority to do this to change the locations of the games. FIFA has contracts with the individual cities. The federal government has nothing to do with this. However, the President did somewhat acknowledge that and said, this is what he do. He just called up the head of FIFA, a guy who likes and respects, and tell him needed to move these games. Said he wouldn't like it, but he do it. That was the threat. I just called him and tell him to do it, and I'm President Trump. He'll do it, Okay.
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Speaker 1: I mean at this point, I don't really feel comfortable calling him on his bluff because I don't think it's a bluff actually, all right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Two executions were carried out in the United States last night, the thirty sixth and thirty seventh in the country this year so far. And we say so far because yes, another one is scheduled for this evening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Last night, though, a first was convicted double murderer Samuel Smithers. He was pronounced dead around six point fifteen in Florida after receiving a lethal injection. Florida continues its record pace of executions this year. Smithers was the fourteenth person executed in the state this year, the previous high the record high for them in a year was eight before.
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Speaker 1: This, and about an hour after that, in Missouri, Lance Shockley was declared dead after also receiving a lethal injection. Shockley had maintained his innocence to the very end and was even asking the courts to allow new DNA testing of evidence in his case. Shockley was convicted in the two thousand and five murder of a Missouri state trooper. We did get some details about his execution. His last meal interesting three packs of oatmeal, peanut butter, water, and two sports drinks.
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Speaker 2: What was the other I don't have it in front of me. It was fried chicken, fried.
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Speaker 1: Fish and ice cream ice cream and apple pie fie ice cream.
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Speaker 2: So it's again that was We talked about this kind of weird, morbid details, but that's always something they put out. What the person's last meal was. Now, the final statement from Shockley, he didn't have any final words, but he had a statement again his final words that were put out after his death, and it was a Bible verse John sixteen twenty two. So also, you have sorrow now, but I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. Why, don't know, but that's what he wanted to put out. Mississippi is scheduled to execute Charles Ray Crawford tonight. He was convicted of kidnap rapement murder of a twenty year old woman. And then we have another one schedule for Friday in Arizona and again ropes. We've been talking about this. In a week's time. We had six on the books. One has been stayed, but it just folks like, what is in the world is going on? And yeah, there's been an uptick.
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Speaker 3: And we did a whole podcast on it.
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Speaker 1: So if you'd like to check that out, if you're interested, as we have been in this uptick in executions and specifically last night's executions.
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Speaker 3: We did put out a podcast. You can find it.
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Speaker 1: I believe it's the one right before this morning run if you're so inclined. Well, next up on the Run, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court and must now pay.
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Speaker 3: The one point four billion.
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Speaker 1: Dollars in damages he owes to Sandy Hook families. The Justices offered no explanation for their denial of Jones's appeal.
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Speaker 2: An attorney for the Sandy Hook families reacted to the Supreme Court's decision by saying the justices properly rejected Jones's latest desperate attempt to avoid accountability for the harm he has cost. Three years ago, a Connecticut jury and judge handed down what is believed to be the largest judgment ever in a US libel case after Jones called the twenty twelve mass shooting that killed twenty children and six adults a hoax.
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Speaker 1: Over and over and over and over again, so much so that family members, I mean, can you imagine what they've already been through. This was one of the most atrocious, horrific attacks here on US soil. They were harassed, they received threats of death and violence, rape by Jones's followers after the tragedy they were already suffering through. It's just unimaginable. Jones's lawyers argued he should be afforded First Amendment considerations because of his large audience of viewers and listeners, saying the judgment is a financial death penalty by FIAT imposed on a media defendant whose broadcast reached millions.
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Speaker 2: All right well. Jroones criticized the Supreme Court's ruling, saying his critics were trying to silence him, and asked his listeners for help to keep his Info Wars on the air. With prayers and financial support. Jones and his business have declared bankruptcy and the families have not received a dime that jury award. We'll stay with us here on this Wednesday morning ron when we come back, Oh brown sugar Baby. Yes, Dangelo, he was a pion near an absolute legend in a particular genre of music. We are remembering and listening to him this morning. Also Instagram going PG thirteen on us and yes, President Trump has a point. That is a bad picture.
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Speaker 1: Continuing now on our Wednesday morning run and Wow, what a pioneer, truly a pioneer.
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Speaker 3: Grammy winning legendary artist.
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Speaker 1: Singer D'Angelo has died at the age of fifty one. His family confirmed his death yesterday. He had been battling pancreatic cancer.
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Speaker 2: This is the way they put it in the statement, the shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life. Helliboy to start it. I actually didn't realize his full name, Michael D'Angelo Archer, they referred to that, but they said, after a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael Angelou Archer, known to his fans around the world as Dangelo, has been called home departing this life. They talked about how they're sad, but they talked about his legacy of extraordinarily moving music that he leaves behind. He did ask for, They did ask for privacy, roads, but I thought this was interesting. But we invite you all to join us, like we ask for privacy, but quote, we invite you all to join us in mourning his passing while also celebrating the gift of song that he left for the world. And again it's for some Again. We talked to some folks on our staffs, younger folks. They're like, yeah, I didn't know the name. I said, oh, I know that song. Of course, I know that song. I know that song. And a lot of people lump him in if you know Erica Badoo, yes, Angie Stone Maxwell. Those folks came him along at a time where he was making this particular sound, neo soul, mainstream, and he kind of led the way. So, yes, he's a pioneer and a legend in this You only put out I think three or four albums in his career, but they were legendary genre shaping albums, and he is just he is just a.
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Speaker 3: Pioneer quality over quantity, right.
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Speaker 1: He won four Grammys, including twice for R and B Album of the Year. That's important to note. Wow, that is a huge deal. First album was Brown Sugar in nineteen ninety five, and it shot to a new level of frenzy'd stardom with how does it Feel That video you said, you know, the one where he's naked.
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Speaker 2: Folks went crazy. It was a simply shot. I can't remember the director, but all it is is him standing there, muscular, well lit, and the camera just goes around and up and down his body and it teases right before it gets deprivated. That is just he's just standing there the whole time, and he was pissed. Later it became he became a sex symbol, and he didn't want to be. He was an artist. He didn't want to be up there being sexy and being that thing. But it made him a superstar.
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Speaker 1: I loved to the point where he didn't put out a ton of albums because he could. After he won Grammys, everyone I'm sure was clamoring for more music and he wanted to do it his way. And wow, that tribute from the family really got me.
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Speaker 3: Like that, Yeah, it was so.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful and yes, so we've been playing that music. And again, if you're not familiar, just go to Spotify, go to Dangelo and just start playing the songs from the top, and I assure you you will love his music. So we talked to Jewel not long ago, right, And I always say, whoever was playing the music when you were in high school college? His first album came out the year I graduated high school.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, that has an impact.
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Speaker 2: Dangel is gonna be with me? Well, you want to continue on this Wednesday morning run? Now PG thirteen not just for the movies. Now, yes, we're usually talking about movies, but now Instagram is using PG thirteen movie guidelines to restrict what kids can see on the app.
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Speaker 3: I thought you had to be thirteen to be on the app.
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Speaker 2: They have a teen setting, a teen account setting that had particular restrictions. What they're doing now they say they're adding another level to where we are basing what we're doing on what they do for the movies and what kind of content that a thirteen year old should be exposed to.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Meta, the parent company of Instagram, announced this all yesterday that it is implementing these new guidelines for those teen accounts. TJ just described as part of the new safety setting, Instagram will hide content or won't suggest content with profanity or anything about drugs, sex, and alcohol.
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Speaker 3: I think that's great. That's the right moment.
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Speaker 2: Now the kids can still look the stuff up and find it. But those fees that there's curated.
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Speaker 3: Content, yeah, will be suggested. That's great.
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Speaker 2: Now, did you not I didn't even know what PG thirty? I had to be reminded with PG we don't watch a lot of PG thirteen.
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Speaker 3: No, you actually avoid them at all costs.
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Speaker 1: But go ahead, what is PG thirteen? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Ask yourselves. Do you know what it officially means? Is parents strongly caution some material may be inappropriate for children under thirteen. Your urge to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre teenagers. That's what the Motion Picture Association of America says. Final leg here, we usually don't start a story like this, but Trump might have a point. President Trump is publicly complaining about his Time magazine cover photo. He does absolutely have a point. If you haven't seen this yet, even as we're talking, you can google it right quick Time magazine Trump photo on the cover, and it is not look They're not trying to make him look the best as they possibly can. That's not their job. But there's a just objectively speaking, babe, there's a better photo than this.
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Speaker 1: I think that some people are arguing that they did their best to make him look as worse as he possibly could while trying to say something flattering because they had to. So the photo was taken from a low angle and the sun creates a halo effect, but the glare makes it look like Trump has little or no hair, and everyone knows that Trump is obsessed with his hair, so to put a photo out first and foremost that basically makes it look like he doesn't have any hair. But that's not even the worst part of it. The center of the picture, where your eye goes directly to focuses on his aging, loose neck, and that's been much made fun of and ridiculed over the years. The headline and the article are positive. Here's the headline underneath this horrific photo. His triumph the leader is real needed and how Gaza heels.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't look it into it that way that people are making the connection like you all had to say something positive about him and you still found.
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Speaker 3: A way to make it negative.
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Speaker 2: To make it negative now. The President went on social media. He complained, writing Time magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the worst of all time. They disappeared my hair and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird. I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles.
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Speaker 3: Nobody does.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows you don't. Nobody you don't do that. You don't even take selfies that we don't.
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Speaker 1: I remember, like, actually, when I was pregnant, someone was trying to take a photographer trying to take a video of me walking down the stairs, and I was like, oh, hell no from down below, that's not happening.
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Speaker 2: The President finished up by saying, this is a super bad picture and deserves to be called out. What are they doing? And why, sweetheart? We look. We get a lot of news from Trump social media posts, and you take some with a grain of salt. There is very little in here I can take issue with in this entire perce.
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Speaker 1: So the Late night Comics, as you might imagine, went to town with this. California Governor Gavin Newsom also took advantage of it. A lot of people have had some fun with the picture, making fun of the picture itself and the fact that Trump is so upset about it.
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Speaker 3: But this was really bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Russia, even wide in like the country of Russia, weighed in on the photo, siding with Trump. It's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said this only unhealthy people, people obsessed with malice and hatred, Perhaps even freaks could have chosen such a photo.
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Speaker 2: I just they have a ton of pictures, They have a ton of new pictures. If you lay out, here are ten options, and you're telling me that was the best one for some reason, I don't know. It just that's tough. Just objectively, it's not you're not trying to make him look good, but you shouldn't be trying to make him look bad.
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Speaker 3: I have an issue with it.
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Speaker 1: If that was part of the motivation, which I think a lot of people believe it was.
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Speaker 3: But if we don't want to walk like, why walk into that?
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Speaker 1: Why why go there? You don't have to do that. And actually, you can disagree with a lot of what the president does. You can dislike him wholly as a person and still acknowledge what happened in the Middle East was progress, and you don't have to punish him for it with a photo. It really did feel like a way to get him, even though they had to praise him.
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Speaker 2: I just want to believe that they wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 3: I would like to argue, I want to believe that.
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Speaker 2: Time magazine would not do that. Is just very difficult. And look, you're selling a product. Don't you want the product and what's there to look as good as possible. Magazine covers are supposed to beautiful and attract you to it. I just don't I don't know, And maybe you're think it too much of it. Maybe it's not that bad. I don't know. I just cannot imagine imagine this is being the best option they had.
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Speaker 3: I agree with that.
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Speaker 1: All right, we are going to leave everyone with our quote of the day. It's a little long, but I really, really, really liked it. It's from William Arthur Ward. He is a motivational He was a motivational speaker and author. The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow, the nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare the The spice of life is to befriend, and the beauty of life.
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Speaker 3: Is to give.
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Speaker 2: What was the spice again, The.
00:25:06
Speaker 3: Spice of life is to befriend. Like this power of friendship. I love that.
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Speaker 1: But I thought it was really really beautiful and cool and I agreed with everything.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this might be the longest quote you've ever used, but no, no, I'm other just complaining about that. But it does. It takes you through. It's not one you can just recite, but it's one if you can sit down and you have it up and you can read it. It's maybe three times during the day when you're having a moment. Very helpful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I actually think this is one that I've said there are a few quotes that I would hang on the wall. This is one of them because it is a constant reminder what a gift it is just to be here. And I just loved the different ways to look at life the advent.
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Speaker 3: So should I read it one more time?
00:25:50
Speaker 1: I know it's gonna it's gonna add another thirty seconds to the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Is what the people want? Go ahead, all right.
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Speaker 1: The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life.
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Speaker 3: Is to dare. That might be my favorite one.
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Speaker 1: The spice of life is to be friend, and the beauty of life is to give. Thank you, William Arthur Ward for that beautiful, beautiful quote of the day. Maybe it's the paragraph of the day. And with that everyone, I may be roboch.
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Speaker 2: Just to make you all sleep better. We will not change the quote of the day to the paragraph of the day. Those is just the one off today. Okay, don't worry, We're going to go back to short and sweet tomorrow. DJ Holmes always appreciate Joe running with us. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone, Thanks for joining us for today's Morning Run. It's Wednesday, October fifteenth. I'm Amy Robots.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes, and I guess a lot of you all are like us, been listening to NonStop Dangelo music for the past twenty four hours or so. This was Look, we knew he had been battling cancer, but it's still sting. Fifty one years old. Dangelo a Grammy winner and a pioneer that a lot of people are actually starting to learn about. They know his music. I'll surprised how many folks didn't know who he was, but they knew of his songs.
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Speaker 1: I have been in that camp and have been listening alongside you and just yeah, what a just an amazing sound and feel smooth and it's sad all at once. It's nice to honor him, it's not nice to remember him, but it's just gutting to think that someone that talented and that incredible just had his life cut so short by this ininsidious disease.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty one years old. We'll be talking about him this morning. Also, Look, Trump has a point on this one. I know, sometimes people think, okay, he's oh, he's too much into his image and what he looks like sounds okay. This is one. I think he's got a decent gripe about this picture.
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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 1: He's upset about the Time magazine cover photo of him. And if you all haven't looked it up, please do so. And we believe you will agree with Trump. You might disagree with him on every other thing, but you will agree with him on this. It's hard to argue that that is a terrible, like almost a deliberately terrible photo.
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Speaker 3: It feels deliberate.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's a better photos. There is a better photo. All right, we'll get into that a little bit this morning. Also, just about everybody right roades handed their press credentials at the Pentagon yesterday on a story that continues. And look, the news organizations on this one got together and rejected the Pentagon.
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Speaker 1: That is the silver lining in this otherwise very dark and dire story. But I did appreciate the fact that despite being a conservative leaning organization or a liberal leaning organization, everyone actually came together and there was a joint statement among broadcasting press members, which I thought was fairly remarkable.
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Speaker 2: That lets you know how remarkable this moment is. We will get into that. And also, as always on that Apple podcast app top right corner of your screen where it says follow, click that button subscribe and we can make sure you're you always get the updates from us and you don't have to go looking for him. Do you want to let you know? Also on the run this morning, we'll be talking about what we saw at the White House yesterday with that Metal of Freedom ceremony. Also the update on the shutdown. It will be a very short update. Also, some frustration as the ceasefire is now being called tenuous. Also, the President has threatened the city of Boston gonna take something away from Boston, possibly that he has no power to do. Also, Alex Jones is pissed at the Supreme Court and he's still on the hook for what one point four billion dollars. Tom is going PG thirteen and two executions in the United States last night, another one set for today, another one set on Friday. We'll tell you what's going on.
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Speaker 1: All right, But we do begin our run overseas on this Wednesday morning, and the much celebrated ceasefire in the Middle East is now being described as fragile, as frustration and frankly even anger is growing now at the pace at which HAMAS is returning the remains of hostages. As part of the ceasefire deal, Hamas was to return all living hostages, which they did, but also the remains of the twenty eight deceased hostages.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of celebration, a lot of hope because those twenty living hostages came out right on time, reunited with their families. The remains of four were initially released earlier this week, followed yesterday by the release of the remains of four more hostages. However, now CNN and other news outlets are reporting that one set of remains was not that of an Israeli. President Trump has chimed in as well. He said we are on phase two of the peace plan. But he issued this warning for Hamas. If they don't disarm, we will disarm them. It'll happen quickly and perhaps violently. It's the good thing to remember here, Robes. Yes, the living hostages, but families want the remains of their loved ones as well, which is just as big of a deal to those families. So it's not like we can just dismiss well that just the remains. We'll get to that later. No, no, no, this is a very very important part, and this is now threatening a ceasefire that we were all celebrating just a couple days.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a huge part of most religion's faith to be able to honor and bury those who have died. And so this is, yes, a huge point of issue, and we certainly hope it gets resolved quickly. All right, Next up on the run, we are heading to the Pentagon, and the deadline has come and gone, and so is every major media outlet. Fox News joined ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, along with just about every print media outlet in ref fusing to sign the Defense Department's new press policy, which basically requires reporters to get DoD approval before releasing any even non classified information.
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Speaker 2: Yeah News organization's police put out a joint statement yesterday saying today we join virtually every other news organization in declining to agree to the Pentagon's new requirements, which would wish restrict journalist's ability to keep the nation and the world informed of important national security issues. The policy is without precedent and threatens core journalistic protection. Now, as of Tuesday's five o'clock deadline, only one news organization had signed on to the policy. One America News that is a conservative and certainly more so MAGA friendly organization.
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Speaker 1: It's described as Yes, So they are the only ones, as far as we can see, who have agreed to this new policy. Fox's decision to join the other networks, we should point out is notable considering the Trump friendly views of many of its hosts, and especially considering the man behind the new rules. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as you might remember, is a former Box News anchor, and we want to read you something The Atlantic posted on x that pretty much sums up the gravity of the situation. Starting Wednesday, for the first time since the Pentagon opened in nineteen forty three, there will be likely no major news outlets accredited to cover the department, the one spending nearly one trillion dollars of taxpayer money.
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Speaker 2: Look, but they're standing by the decision. Over there at the Pentagon Press Association over there did asks for them to reconsider the new rules, and Hegseth defended them alongside President Trump, saying it's common sense stuff. Mister President. We're trying to make sure national security is respected, and we're proud of the policy. Given their staying, I can't imagine this changing during his administration. I don't think they're going to rethink it.
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Speaker 1: Chris, I agree with you, and it is unprecedented and it is frightening.
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Speaker 3: All right. Next up on the.
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Speaker 1: Run, an update on the government shutdown. And as we mentioned it the top, this is going to be short and sweet because there's not a lot to say. Today is now day fifteen of the shutdown. And oh, by the way, the Senate voted yesterday on a funding bill to reopen the government.
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Speaker 2: It was a close one, No, it wasn't. It's the same damn bill They've been voted on what seven times before? They've done it, so, as expected, it failed an eighth time yesterday. No votes are scheduled for today. No sign of this thing ending anytime soon. If it goes throughout the end of the week at least robes, this will be the third longest shutdown in history, and by mid next week it will be the second longest government shut down in US history.
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Speaker 3: Hmm. I wonder if we'll get there, all right?
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Charlie Kirk posthumously received the president Medal of Freedom yesterday at a Rose Garden ceremony.
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Speaker 3: His wife, Erica Kirk, accepted.
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Speaker 1: On his behalf on what would have been his thirty second birthday.
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Speaker 2: This was in the Rose Garden. Wasn't this the inaugural event? Yes, well, the revamped Rose Guard.
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Speaker 1: The President tauted that as he began.
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Speaker 3: His speech, I have to say, looks nice. It does look really look nice.
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Speaker 1: He knows a thing or two about architecture and building things and making deals.
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Speaker 2: He wants to remind you. The Presidential Medal of Freedom will remind you as the highest civilian honor award in the US, and recognized his individuals for a lifetime of achievement in public service, the arts and whatnot. Usually we see a group of them. I think they're going to do it later in November. But this was the first one he's done, and he got his own moment. Charlie Kirk did, I wrote, he wrote, you know, I do some deep dives on this stuff, and I go too deep. So for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, there have been two people that have gotten it twice. One of them was Colon Powell.
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Speaker 3: Didn't know that.
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Speaker 2: Got it from Bush and got it from Obama. I by but two. That was really really impressive. I'm sorry that stopped me in my tracks as I was doing that research. Now. On the same day that Charlie Kirk was being recognized, the White House also announced it had revoked the visas of six foreigners for comments they made about Kirk's death. Their social media posts, according to the White House, included content that was deemed to mock Charlie Kirk's death.
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Speaker 1: So the administration said the six were from Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, and South Africa, and the State Department said in a statement that the President will defend our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws. Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed. Didn't that stick out to you that we are now defending our culture?
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Speaker 3: Wow?
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Speaker 2: We don't agree what it is.
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Speaker 3: Right, that's the problem there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the language is everything. And to say that we're going to I don't know, man, we can't agree on that. We'll continue here on the run. President Trump, well, he threatened to have next year's scheduled World Cup games removed from Boston. Now the city and in particular New England Patriots Stadium there in Foxborough. It's going to be used as one of several sites for the World Cup next year, which is going to take place in the US, Mexico and Canada and several cities.
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Speaker 1: Yes, everyone's so excited about this, right, we're oh so excited. All right. Well, the President was asked yesterday about recent classes in Boston between police and protesters and if that could have any impact on the upcoming World Games there. Trump responded with this, we could take them away. I love the people of Boston, and I know the games are sold out, but your mayor is not good.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So can he do this? Will he do this? Well, he was told he couldn't put National Guard troops on the streets of DC and Memphis, and well they're there. So he actually does not have the authority to do this to change the locations of the games. FIFA has contracts with the individual cities. The federal government has nothing to do with this. However, the President did somewhat acknowledge that and said, this is what he do. He just called up the head of FIFA, a guy who likes and respects, and tell him needed to move these games. Said he wouldn't like it, but he do it. That was the threat. I just called him and tell him to do it, and I'm President Trump. He'll do it, Okay.
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Speaker 1: I mean at this point, I don't really feel comfortable calling him on his bluff because I don't think it's a bluff actually, all right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Two executions were carried out in the United States last night, the thirty sixth and thirty seventh in the country this year so far. And we say so far because yes, another one is scheduled for this evening.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Last night, though, a first was convicted double murderer Samuel Smithers. He was pronounced dead around six point fifteen in Florida after receiving a lethal injection. Florida continues its record pace of executions this year. Smithers was the fourteenth person executed in the state this year, the previous high the record high for them in a year was eight before.
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Speaker 1: This, and about an hour after that, in Missouri, Lance Shockley was declared dead after also receiving a lethal injection. Shockley had maintained his innocence to the very end and was even asking the courts to allow new DNA testing of evidence in his case. Shockley was convicted in the two thousand and five murder of a Missouri state trooper. We did get some details about his execution. His last meal interesting three packs of oatmeal, peanut butter, water, and two sports drinks.
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Speaker 2: What was the other I don't have it in front of me. It was fried chicken, fried.
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Speaker 1: Fish and ice cream ice cream and apple pie fie ice cream.
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Speaker 2: So it's again that was We talked about this kind of weird, morbid details, but that's always something they put out. What the person's last meal was. Now, the final statement from Shockley, he didn't have any final words, but he had a statement again his final words that were put out after his death, and it was a Bible verse John sixteen twenty two. So also, you have sorrow now, but I'll see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you. Why, don't know, but that's what he wanted to put out. Mississippi is scheduled to execute Charles Ray Crawford tonight. He was convicted of kidnap rapement murder of a twenty year old woman. And then we have another one schedule for Friday in Arizona and again ropes. We've been talking about this. In a week's time. We had six on the books. One has been stayed, but it just folks like, what is in the world is going on? And yeah, there's been an uptick.
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Speaker 3: And we did a whole podcast on it.
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Speaker 1: So if you'd like to check that out, if you're interested, as we have been in this uptick in executions and specifically last night's executions.
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Speaker 3: We did put out a podcast. You can find it.
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Speaker 1: I believe it's the one right before this morning run if you're so inclined. Well, next up on the Run, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost his appeal to the Supreme Court and must now pay.
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Speaker 3: The one point four billion.
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Speaker 1: Dollars in damages he owes to Sandy Hook families. The Justices offered no explanation for their denial of Jones's appeal.
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Speaker 2: An attorney for the Sandy Hook families reacted to the Supreme Court's decision by saying the justices properly rejected Jones's latest desperate attempt to avoid accountability for the harm he has cost. Three years ago, a Connecticut jury and judge handed down what is believed to be the largest judgment ever in a US libel case after Jones called the twenty twelve mass shooting that killed twenty children and six adults a hoax.
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Speaker 1: Over and over and over and over again, so much so that family members, I mean, can you imagine what they've already been through. This was one of the most atrocious, horrific attacks here on US soil. They were harassed, they received threats of death and violence, rape by Jones's followers after the tragedy they were already suffering through. It's just unimaginable. Jones's lawyers argued he should be afforded First Amendment considerations because of his large audience of viewers and listeners, saying the judgment is a financial death penalty by FIAT imposed on a media defendant whose broadcast reached millions.
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Speaker 2: All right well. Jroones criticized the Supreme Court's ruling, saying his critics were trying to silence him, and asked his listeners for help to keep his Info Wars on the air. With prayers and financial support. Jones and his business have declared bankruptcy and the families have not received a dime that jury award. We'll stay with us here on this Wednesday morning ron when we come back, Oh brown sugar Baby. Yes, Dangelo, he was a pion near an absolute legend in a particular genre of music. We are remembering and listening to him this morning. Also Instagram going PG thirteen on us and yes, President Trump has a point. That is a bad picture.
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Speaker 1: Continuing now on our Wednesday morning run and Wow, what a pioneer, truly a pioneer.
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Speaker 3: Grammy winning legendary artist.
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Speaker 1: Singer D'Angelo has died at the age of fifty one. His family confirmed his death yesterday. He had been battling pancreatic cancer.
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Speaker 2: This is the way they put it in the statement, the shining star of our family has dimmed his light for us in this life. Helliboy to start it. I actually didn't realize his full name, Michael D'Angelo Archer, they referred to that, but they said, after a prolonged and courageous battle with cancer, we are heartbroken to announce that Michael Angelou Archer, known to his fans around the world as Dangelo, has been called home departing this life. They talked about how they're sad, but they talked about his legacy of extraordinarily moving music that he leaves behind. He did ask for, They did ask for privacy, roads, but I thought this was interesting. But we invite you all to join us, like we ask for privacy, but quote, we invite you all to join us in mourning his passing while also celebrating the gift of song that he left for the world. And again it's for some Again. We talked to some folks on our staffs, younger folks. They're like, yeah, I didn't know the name. I said, oh, I know that song. Of course, I know that song. I know that song. And a lot of people lump him in if you know Erica Badoo, yes, Angie Stone Maxwell. Those folks came him along at a time where he was making this particular sound, neo soul, mainstream, and he kind of led the way. So, yes, he's a pioneer and a legend in this You only put out I think three or four albums in his career, but they were legendary genre shaping albums, and he is just he is just a.
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Speaker 3: Pioneer quality over quantity, right.
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Speaker 1: He won four Grammys, including twice for R and B Album of the Year. That's important to note. Wow, that is a huge deal. First album was Brown Sugar in nineteen ninety five, and it shot to a new level of frenzy'd stardom with how does it Feel That video you said, you know, the one where he's naked.
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Speaker 2: Folks went crazy. It was a simply shot. I can't remember the director, but all it is is him standing there, muscular, well lit, and the camera just goes around and up and down his body and it teases right before it gets deprivated. That is just he's just standing there the whole time, and he was pissed. Later it became he became a sex symbol, and he didn't want to be. He was an artist. He didn't want to be up there being sexy and being that thing. But it made him a superstar.
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Speaker 1: I loved to the point where he didn't put out a ton of albums because he could. After he won Grammys, everyone I'm sure was clamoring for more music and he wanted to do it his way. And wow, that tribute from the family really got me.
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Speaker 3: Like that, Yeah, it was so.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful and yes, so we've been playing that music. And again, if you're not familiar, just go to Spotify, go to Dangelo and just start playing the songs from the top, and I assure you you will love his music. So we talked to Jewel not long ago, right, And I always say, whoever was playing the music when you were in high school college? His first album came out the year I graduated high school.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah, that has an impact.
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Speaker 2: Dangel is gonna be with me? Well, you want to continue on this Wednesday morning run? Now PG thirteen not just for the movies. Now, yes, we're usually talking about movies, but now Instagram is using PG thirteen movie guidelines to restrict what kids can see on the app.
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Speaker 3: I thought you had to be thirteen to be on the app.
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Speaker 2: They have a teen setting, a teen account setting that had particular restrictions. What they're doing now they say they're adding another level to where we are basing what we're doing on what they do for the movies and what kind of content that a thirteen year old should be exposed to.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Meta, the parent company of Instagram, announced this all yesterday that it is implementing these new guidelines for those teen accounts. TJ just described as part of the new safety setting, Instagram will hide content or won't suggest content with profanity or anything about drugs, sex, and alcohol.
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Speaker 3: I think that's great. That's the right moment.
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Speaker 2: Now the kids can still look the stuff up and find it. But those fees that there's curated.
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Speaker 3: Content, yeah, will be suggested. That's great.
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Speaker 2: Now, did you not I didn't even know what PG thirty? I had to be reminded with PG we don't watch a lot of PG thirteen.
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Speaker 3: No, you actually avoid them at all costs.
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Speaker 1: But go ahead, what is PG thirteen? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Ask yourselves. Do you know what it officially means? Is parents strongly caution some material may be inappropriate for children under thirteen. Your urge to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre teenagers. That's what the Motion Picture Association of America says. Final leg here, we usually don't start a story like this, but Trump might have a point. President Trump is publicly complaining about his Time magazine cover photo. He does absolutely have a point. If you haven't seen this yet, even as we're talking, you can google it right quick Time magazine Trump photo on the cover, and it is not look They're not trying to make him look the best as they possibly can. That's not their job. But there's a just objectively speaking, babe, there's a better photo than this.
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Speaker 1: I think that some people are arguing that they did their best to make him look as worse as he possibly could while trying to say something flattering because they had to. So the photo was taken from a low angle and the sun creates a halo effect, but the glare makes it look like Trump has little or no hair, and everyone knows that Trump is obsessed with his hair, so to put a photo out first and foremost that basically makes it look like he doesn't have any hair. But that's not even the worst part of it. The center of the picture, where your eye goes directly to focuses on his aging, loose neck, and that's been much made fun of and ridiculed over the years. The headline and the article are positive. Here's the headline underneath this horrific photo. His triumph the leader is real needed and how Gaza heels.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I didn't look it into it that way that people are making the connection like you all had to say something positive about him and you still found.
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Speaker 3: A way to make it negative.
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Speaker 2: To make it negative now. The President went on social media. He complained, writing Time magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the worst of all time. They disappeared my hair and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird. I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles.
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Speaker 3: Nobody does.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows you don't. Nobody you don't do that. You don't even take selfies that we don't.
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Speaker 1: I remember, like, actually, when I was pregnant, someone was trying to take a photographer trying to take a video of me walking down the stairs, and I was like, oh, hell no from down below, that's not happening.
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Speaker 2: The President finished up by saying, this is a super bad picture and deserves to be called out. What are they doing? And why, sweetheart? We look. We get a lot of news from Trump social media posts, and you take some with a grain of salt. There is very little in here I can take issue with in this entire perce.
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Speaker 1: So the Late night Comics, as you might imagine, went to town with this. California Governor Gavin Newsom also took advantage of it. A lot of people have had some fun with the picture, making fun of the picture itself and the fact that Trump is so upset about it.
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Speaker 3: But this was really bizarre.
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Speaker 1: Russia, even wide in like the country of Russia, weighed in on the photo, siding with Trump. It's Foreign Ministry spokesperson said this only unhealthy people, people obsessed with malice and hatred, Perhaps even freaks could have chosen such a photo.
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Speaker 2: I just they have a ton of pictures, They have a ton of new pictures. If you lay out, here are ten options, and you're telling me that was the best one for some reason, I don't know. It just that's tough. Just objectively, it's not you're not trying to make him look good, but you shouldn't be trying to make him look bad.
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Speaker 3: I have an issue with it.
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Speaker 1: If that was part of the motivation, which I think a lot of people believe it was.
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Speaker 3: But if we don't want to walk like, why walk into that?
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Speaker 1: Why why go there? You don't have to do that. And actually, you can disagree with a lot of what the president does. You can dislike him wholly as a person and still acknowledge what happened in the Middle East was progress, and you don't have to punish him for it with a photo. It really did feel like a way to get him, even though they had to praise him.
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Speaker 2: I just want to believe that they wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 3: I would like to argue, I want to believe that.
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Speaker 2: Time magazine would not do that. Is just very difficult. And look, you're selling a product. Don't you want the product and what's there to look as good as possible. Magazine covers are supposed to beautiful and attract you to it. I just don't I don't know, And maybe you're think it too much of it. Maybe it's not that bad. I don't know. I just cannot imagine imagine this is being the best option they had.
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Speaker 3: I agree with that.
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Speaker 1: All right, we are going to leave everyone with our quote of the day. It's a little long, but I really, really, really liked it. It's from William Arthur Ward. He is a motivational He was a motivational speaker and author. The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow, the nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare the The spice of life is to befriend, and the beauty of life.
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Speaker 3: Is to give.
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Speaker 2: What was the spice again, The.
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Speaker 3: Spice of life is to befriend. Like this power of friendship. I love that.
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Speaker 1: But I thought it was really really beautiful and cool and I agreed with everything.
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Speaker 2: Yes, this might be the longest quote you've ever used, but no, no, I'm other just complaining about that. But it does. It takes you through. It's not one you can just recite, but it's one if you can sit down and you have it up and you can read it. It's maybe three times during the day when you're having a moment. Very helpful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I actually think this is one that I've said there are a few quotes that I would hang on the wall. This is one of them because it is a constant reminder what a gift it is just to be here. And I just loved the different ways to look at life the advent.
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Speaker 3: So should I read it one more time?
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Speaker 1: I know it's gonna it's gonna add another thirty seconds to the podcast.
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Speaker 2: Is what the people want? Go ahead, all right.
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Speaker 1: The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life.
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Speaker 3: Is to dare. That might be my favorite one.
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Speaker 1: The spice of life is to be friend, and the beauty of life is to give. Thank you, William Arthur Ward for that beautiful, beautiful quote of the day. Maybe it's the paragraph of the day. And with that everyone, I may be roboch.
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Speaker 2: Just to make you all sleep better. We will not change the quote of the day to the paragraph of the day. Those is just the one off today. Okay, don't worry, We're going to go back to short and sweet tomorrow. DJ Holmes always appreciate Joe running with us. Talk to you soon.