Nov. 13, 2025
Morning Run: U.S. Back in Business, Epstein Vote Imminent, Senators Want $500K, Jesse Jackson Hospitalized and No More Pennies
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, Welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, November thirteenth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, not to our members of Congress, but to the seven hundred and thirty thousand folks out there, robes who have been working for the past forty three days unpaid, missing paychecks, and they kept the country going.
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Speaker 4: Yes, thank god for them.
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Speaker 2: We need them, we count on them, we rely on them, and they've been treated terribly over the past month and a few days.
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Speaker 1: Yes, seven hundred and thirty thousand federal workers considered a central happened, con essential happened, continuing to come to work and rose. They are the heroes in this. There's nobody in Washington who should take credit. We did the right thing. These folks are the heroes who whether it's tsa VA, medicare all those folks have to keep going, those things have to keep running. Air traffic controllers kept us in the air.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, yes, thank you. Yet almost six weeks, six weeks without.
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Speaker 2: Pay, that is something that most people cannot afford.
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Speaker 4: And yet they had to figure out how to do it.
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Speaker 1: You know what, you're not getting paid doing some of the most important work in the federal government in air traffic controller. You don't want I would have donated. This is one thing you want to donate. I would donate.
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Speaker 3: I don't want that person stressed out.
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Speaker 4: No, no, when safety is on the line. Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: But we thought we had to start. But just with that, yes, you all know the shutdown is over. We'd get into some of the details. With some of the stuff in there, we can't even believe what's coming. But this is a good news. Officially the government has reopened today. We'll get into all that. But also on the run this morning, there's an Epstein vote that's imminent, Diddy's release pushback. Senators want you to pay them half a mill an expensive name change to tell you about. And we have a long, long, overdue quote of the day. You'll know we do these every single day. Today is a very special one that in fact, we didn't plan on doing, but we had to include it because Robes heard it this morning and it had her in tears when she heard it. Even though Robes, you heard it fifty times before.
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Speaker 2: It right gets you every time, But every time I see this quote, and I hear it delivered by the person who said it, I lose it. It's a reminder, and yes, cannot wait to get to that. But let's begin our run with the big news. Finally, the shutdown is over. The government has reopened. Federal workers are being told to return to work today after forty three days, the longest shutdown in US history. President Trump last night signed the compromise bill to reopen the government.
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Speaker 1: And in case you're wondering, the House did vote. These were the numbers, two hundred and twenty two to two nine to approve this measure. Six Dmocrats voted with Republicans to approve the bill. Actually two Democrats voted excuse me, two Republicans voted with Democrats to oppose it. The bill does not include those healthcare subsidies roads. This was the whole point, the whole justification for the Democrats shutting down the government is that they insisted on getting these healthcare subsidies and ropes.
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Speaker 3: They are not in this bill.
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Speaker 2: That is got to feel and sound so frustrating to the folks who were so deeply affected. This bill funds the government through the end of January. Hopefully, I say, hopefully giving Congress enough time to negotiate that long term deal. And if they don't, yeah, this might be groundhog Day all over again.
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Speaker 4: At the end of January.
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Speaker 1: The government reopened today and officially the clock is ticking on the next shutdown is where.
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Speaker 4: We do you think lessons have been learned?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: They would be political lessons for them, only only what they if they see polling that says yep. This was our came to our advantage to keep hurting the American people. They will continue to do it if they think they're gaining any ground.
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Speaker 2: And the problem is twenty twenty six is in midterm election year, a very important year politically and we I'm sorry this might sound cynical. It's just from experience. This is how they vote. It determines whether or not they get re elected. Yes.
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Speaker 4: Period.
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Speaker 1: So a short time after the President's signature reopened the government. That was obviously great news, we got some more good news. The FAA is going to cap flight cancelations at six percent for now. This was I didn't expect this news so soon after, but this news came fairly immediately after.
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Speaker 2: This is huge because I was questioning why are they continuing to ramp up cancelations if the government is now officially reopened.
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Speaker 4: So this is a huge relief for a lot of folks.
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Speaker 2: The plan had been for flight cancelations to go up to eight percent today and then ten percent tomorrow, but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said they are seen a rapid decline in callouts from air traffic controllers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the six percent reduction currently in place will remain indefinitely. Don't know when that might end, but it's staying there for now. And as they put it, they are assessing whether the system can gradually return to normal operations. Still, the cancelations of their ropes. This is a good good sign for them to say, we don't have to do anymore. We can just hold This is a very positive note.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, we're vera and anyone who was worried about their Thanksgiving travel plans, and certainly understandably, so I feel like now you can kind of your shoulders can relax. They can drop not out of the woods, out of the US, but not as scary.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, now get this, folks.
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Speaker 1: Just as soon as they pass this damn bill, Congress is already trying to repeal at least part of it.
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Speaker 2: This is insane. You got to listen to this. The House is now going to vote next week on repealing a provision that some say was slipped into the bill, and nobody seems to be sure or willing to confess where it came from and who is responsible for it.
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Speaker 1: What is this provision, you ask, Well, it allows senators to sue the government and be awarded a minimum of five hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer money. Say what now, Well, let us explain.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: You remember earlier this year when it was revealed that eight Republican senators had their phone records obtained without their knowledge as part of a then DOJ attorney Jacksmiths investigated into the January sixth attacks. That was a big deal for these senators to hear that their information had been taken without their knowledge. Well, the provision and the funding bill now would allow those senators to sue and be paid a minimum robes of five hundred thousand dollars if they win their case against the government. Again, that's just the minimum amount.
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Speaker 3: They would get.
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Speaker 4: Whoo.
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Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson said this. He was shocked and angry when he found out of it at the eleventh hour, So who did.
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Speaker 1: This ropes They don't. Nobody's taking responsibility. Nobody said, well where to come in? Well, I don't know who put it in there? Well who's job?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: They're absolutely there's nobody ability. There was one outlet. They called every single office to try to find out, and everybody's like.
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Speaker 4: M wasn't me, wasn't me.
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Speaker 1: So they're arguing now Rode that they are going to vote and get that taken out now, and some are coming out and say, yeah, of course it shouldn't be in there, but nobody knows.
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Speaker 2: You know what though, It's just just when we need to start rebuilding trust again in our government and the people who we have elected to lead our government. This is just gross, like when no one, like if someone just said, okay, it was me, you know, the fact that no one's admitting it that I feel like we're dealing with children.
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Speaker 1: The argument some are standing by say well, the reason this is there, let me just put this out there, saying we want to make sure this can never happen again, So we want to make an example and make it so punitive.
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Speaker 4: And line our pockets with that money.
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Speaker 3: Well maybe I'm sure they're going to donate it.
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Speaker 2: To Jerry uh huh, but it's taxpayer dollars. We've been through enough. We've been through enough, all right, now that they're all finally back at work and the government has reopened one of their first orders of business, Jeffrey Epstein, you.
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Speaker 1: Can't make this stuff up. So Speaker Johnson said he is now going to call a vote next week on releasing the Epstein files. At this point, I don't even know what the Epstein files are. I guess just everything y'all got put it out there now. The Speaker Johnson is not doing this out of the kindness of his own heart. His hand is being forced after House members collected enough signatures to compel the Speaker to call this vote.
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Speaker 2: So news of this vote comes after yesterday's release of years old Epstein emails by the House Oversight Committee, and of course, one of the big headlines we have a whole podcast on this that we put out yesterday that Epstein wrote that Trump quote knew about the girls end quote, and he wrote in an email that Trump had spent hours at Epstein's home with Virginia Geuffrey. So we just want to put this out there. President Trump has never been accused of wrongdoing. He's always denied that he did anything criminal, and even Virginia Dufrey herself said he was always pleasant around here. So no one's suggesting that President Trump did anything with these girls.
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Speaker 4: It the suggestion is, or at least the absolute outright.
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Speaker 2: Statement is from Epstein that Trump knew what was going on in his home.
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Speaker 3: Continuing on the run here now with Diddy.
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Speaker 1: His expected release date is all over the place, robes. It's changed already now. He's only been in prison for Dick's Prison in New Jersey for about two weeks.
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Speaker 3: Been eventful two weeks.
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Speaker 4: I was gonna say lots happened in those two weeks.
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Speaker 2: Originally did He's release date was listed as May eighth, twenty twenty eight, but now it's changed to June fourth, twenty twenty eight. That's about a month later than originally listed by the Federal Bureau of Prison's inmate records. There has been no explanation given from the prison as to why there is this change in date, but it does come after there were some reported rules violations, including misuse of Ditty's phone privileges. Within like a few days of him getting there.
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Speaker 1: And that's when we know CBS obtained the records that's verifiable. That one is verified. And this was a it was a three way call. He wasn't supposed to add somebody to the call. You can only call one person.
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Speaker 4: They are your violation of prison rules. You can't.
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Speaker 2: You can only have certain people that are already on a pre approved phone list. And so if someone brings someone else in, you could bring anyone in who isn't approved to be on the phone list.
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Speaker 1: Big deal, all right, So TMZ. In addition to that, though, they reported that he was caught with homemade prison alcohol, but his reps came out publicly vehemently denied that, so that one's up in the air. But a month got added. He's been in prison for two weeks and he's already had a month added to his seat.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting because the records that CBS obtained about his phone violations specifically stated their recommendation for what the punishment should be, and that was basically ninety days without PHAM privileges and ninety days without extra commissary privileges. So it had no mention of a pushed back prison release.
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Speaker 3: Date, and the reason we say is a thing is all over the place.
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Speaker 1: As soon as he got in there, we got confirmation he was in this rehab program that can cut up to a year off your sentence, and now he got a month.
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Speaker 4: So I don't know, there's going to be a ditty update like every few days.
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Speaker 3: This is what it's supposed to get. Quiet.
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Speaker 4: It's a leaky prison. Apparently.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on the run here on this Friday e folks, we want to mention here thoughts and prayers of many this morning are with Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, civil rights icon really at this point has been hospitalized this morning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been under observation for progressive super nuclear palsy. It's a rare degenerative condition. He was diagnosed with it back in April, and he's eighty four years old. He's already been diagnosed and is deal with Parkinson's for more than a decade now. So he's battling a lot of things right now. He's at an age where that is scarier than typical. So our thoughts and prayers are certainly with him and his family.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, and stay with us here on this Thursday morning run when we come back, folks, it's a rap for those pennies, but don't throw them out. We'll explain. Also coming up, we've seen a lot of companies, even a lot of celebrities go through name changes. Nobody has had one that's about to be as expensive as the Secretary of Defenses new business cards. All right, folks, let's continue on this Thursday morning run. Calling Pete Hegseth the Secretary of War instead of the Secretary of Defense. Is ropes a really costly proposition.
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Speaker 2: That's right, NBC News is reporting it is going to potentially cost I would never have guessed.
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Speaker 4: This two that makes sense billion.
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Speaker 2: With the b dollars to go through the process of changing the name of the Defense Department officially to the War Department, as directed by President Trump via executive order.
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Speaker 1: According to NBC's sources, the cost of rewriting code for all those Pentagon websites, changing signs, badges, letterheads, as well as updating all this stuff at signage all over the world. On our basis, yes, we'll cost upwards up two billion dollars.
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Speaker 3: Part of that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think about this, but they have a lot of internal and external websites sites that we can jump on as citizens. But think of all of that internal stuff they have going on. They have to change and rewrite all this code so everything says Department of War. They said, that's tricky.
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Speaker 4: Why could that two billion dollars go to help? Who could that serve?
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Speaker 2: How much good could that money do beyond a name change?
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Speaker 1: It's it's serving our messaging, and that two billion dollars is going to send the message to everybody around the war that we don't mess around.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, all right.
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Speaker 2: A Pentagon spokesperson said they are quote aggressively implement and implementing the name change, but it's not clear if everything will get changed and just how soon those changes will take place. One note, the administration can informally refer to it as the Department of War.
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Speaker 4: To change the name officially would take an Act of Congress. So if you can't change the.
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Speaker 2: Name officially without Congress voting to approve it, how can they spend two billion dollars to change all of the signage and to change all of the internal websites and external.
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Speaker 1: It's like, my full name is Lutilius Holmes Junior. I go by TJ. Now if I in my professional career over the past twenty five years. Want to go back now and I want to change all of that stuff to my official and my real name. A change like you can do it, we will do it all the time. So we can still refer to the Defense Department as the War Department. But to actually change it officially, it can't be done unless Congress does.
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Speaker 2: But how can they change signs then if Congress hasn't approved it, that's not just colloquially calling it something different.
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Speaker 3: But to your point.
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Speaker 1: About my name there, I whoop up my point about my name. I chose to just call myself TJ. I didn't go to the government and go through a process and do a legal name change. I just decided to call myself TJ. You met, You've never called me anything but TJ.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So even when I'm mad at you, I don't go to your lutilius.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's kind of the thing they're doing is like that. I just I want everybody to call me this, and that's what everybody's.
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Speaker 3: Gonna call me.
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Speaker 1: My business cards, my whole it's been that, But officially I'm still the Defense Department.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's so worth two billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: You know what a lot of pennies in that two billion, and there ain't no more for him because the penny is officially over. As we wrap up this Thursday morning run, pennies are officially over after two d and thirty years. The last penny was minted yesterday, and Philadelphia administration made the decision earlier this year to end production of the one cent coin because frankly it was costing too much.
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Speaker 2: I support this, uh I do. It's annoying to have to even like deal with pennies. Mass production of pennies ceased months ago, by the way, but yesterday they minted the final five. They will not go into circulation. They're gonna be auctioned off instead. And by the way, do not throw away your pennies because they're still legal tender.
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Speaker 4: And will remain so.
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Speaker 2: And there are three hundred billion pennies still in circulation. I actually had to look up how much that is.
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Speaker 4: Can you do the math? I'm terrible with this kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: You I just need to.
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Speaker 1: Take two zeros off of thirty three hundred billion, so three billion.
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Speaker 2: It's thirty million, that's according to AI. My my whatever, it's thirty million dollars. I cannot deal with all those zeros. It'd be lovely to have to, but I don't deal with all those zeros.
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Speaker 3: But is this an issue or not?
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Speaker 1: But it could have a financial implication here because people are gonna use a lot of people still use cash, use coins.
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Speaker 3: You go to a store, Oh yeah, are you around? No pennies?
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Speaker 2: There?
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Speaker 3: Up around it?
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Speaker 4: You people? So I can I haven't used cash like pennies.
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Speaker 2: When if you actually pulled a penny out of your pocket and put it down for tender, like legal tender to actually pay for something I cannot remember.
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Speaker 3: You see a penny on the ground, you can pick.
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Speaker 4: It up all day long. You'll have good luck.
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Speaker 3: Was the last time you do that? You just walk past a penny somebody?
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Speaker 2: I actually feel guilty when I do it that maybe that's gonna give me bad luck.
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Speaker 4: So sometimes I've picked it up.
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Speaker 3: Please pick up your.
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Speaker 1: Pennies, folks, they are they're gonna be rarities soon enough. Before we let you go, h something. We always like to leave you with something where you consider as you go about your day. It is our quote of the day, and this one is the one we talked about off the Top that had robes. Hey, look, I'll admit it had me in tears ever since every time time I hear it as well. But the context for it, it's from Tony Todd, star of Candy Man and also star of the Final Destination movies and the Final Final Destination that came out this summer.
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Speaker 3: He played a role.
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Speaker 1: He had been sick with cancer for a long long time, but they brought him back to be a part of this movie and you could tell he was much thinner, his voice was different, but he delivers just a golden final moment for himself and Final Destination. And this is the quote that sticks with us.
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Speaker 2: I intend to enjoy the time I have left, and I suggest you do the same.
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Speaker 4: Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know when and.
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Speaker 1: The reason that's powerful words without the story, but knowing those words were delivered by an iconic actor who's been in some iconic roles and this was his final moment in film, and that is the message he left us with. And then he passed away, of course earlier this year, and is just an incredible moment. And if you haven't seen the movie, if you don't want to see the movie. It's on HBO Max. Fast forward to that part. I just listened. It's five minutes that he's in there.
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Speaker 4: The cool thing is the story.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, it's a horror movie and it's all about you know, death is coming for you. So he's telling this to kids who are trying to cheat death basically, and he said death is coming for all of us. Is what he started out with, and it's just a reminder for anyone who is battling something, who has lost someone. This is a powerful quote. And to hear him deliver it with such it was, yes, with his iconic voice, but also with such purity and love and meaning, and it was so deeply personal.
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Speaker 4: He wasn't just delivering a line in a movie.
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Speaker 2: He was speaking truth, and he was speaking from his heart and what he was actually living and dealing with, and that's what makes it so powerful.
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Speaker 1: So, folks, we incur, really really really. You don't have to be a horror movie fan, but I It is called Final Destination Bloodlines. It's the most recent Final Destination movie. It's on HBO Max. If you don't want to, Yes, we love the movie, watch the whole thing, but fast forward to that part. And just listen to Tony Todd. But again, I intend to enjoy the time I have left, and I suggest you do the same. Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know when. Thank you, Tony Todd. I wanted to reserve and not take this moment to be offended once again at the Academy for leaving him out of the end memorial.
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Speaker 2: I know we were just saying that if you know, they loved him out, but if, man, if they had just ended it with that line, because how cool? Who do you know who has been able to deliver a line like that within months of dying and have it live on in a film like that for all to see.
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Speaker 4: I mean, how special is that? Thank you, Tony Todd.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and thank you all for running with us as always for now, I am TJ. Holmes, a man of my still wiping away tears partner Amy Roeboch. We will talk to y'all real since mhmm mm hmmmmm
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Good morning everyone, Welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, November thirteenth. I'm Amy Robots and I'm TJ.
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Speaker 3: Holmes.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, not to our members of Congress, but to the seven hundred and thirty thousand folks out there, robes who have been working for the past forty three days unpaid, missing paychecks, and they kept the country going.
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Speaker 4: Yes, thank god for them.
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Speaker 2: We need them, we count on them, we rely on them, and they've been treated terribly over the past month and a few days.
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Speaker 1: Yes, seven hundred and thirty thousand federal workers considered a central happened, con essential happened, continuing to come to work and rose. They are the heroes in this. There's nobody in Washington who should take credit. We did the right thing. These folks are the heroes who whether it's tsa VA, medicare all those folks have to keep going, those things have to keep running. Air traffic controllers kept us in the air.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, yes, thank you. Yet almost six weeks, six weeks without.
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Speaker 2: Pay, that is something that most people cannot afford.
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Speaker 4: And yet they had to figure out how to do it.
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Speaker 1: You know what, you're not getting paid doing some of the most important work in the federal government in air traffic controller. You don't want I would have donated. This is one thing you want to donate. I would donate.
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Speaker 3: I don't want that person stressed out.
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Speaker 4: No, no, when safety is on the line. Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: But we thought we had to start. But just with that, yes, you all know the shutdown is over. We'd get into some of the details. With some of the stuff in there, we can't even believe what's coming. But this is a good news. Officially the government has reopened today. We'll get into all that. But also on the run this morning, there's an Epstein vote that's imminent, Diddy's release pushback. Senators want you to pay them half a mill an expensive name change to tell you about. And we have a long, long, overdue quote of the day. You'll know we do these every single day. Today is a very special one that in fact, we didn't plan on doing, but we had to include it because Robes heard it this morning and it had her in tears when she heard it. Even though Robes, you heard it fifty times before.
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Speaker 2: It right gets you every time, But every time I see this quote, and I hear it delivered by the person who said it, I lose it. It's a reminder, and yes, cannot wait to get to that. But let's begin our run with the big news. Finally, the shutdown is over. The government has reopened. Federal workers are being told to return to work today after forty three days, the longest shutdown in US history. President Trump last night signed the compromise bill to reopen the government.
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Speaker 1: And in case you're wondering, the House did vote. These were the numbers, two hundred and twenty two to two nine to approve this measure. Six Dmocrats voted with Republicans to approve the bill. Actually two Democrats voted excuse me, two Republicans voted with Democrats to oppose it. The bill does not include those healthcare subsidies roads. This was the whole point, the whole justification for the Democrats shutting down the government is that they insisted on getting these healthcare subsidies and ropes.
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Speaker 3: They are not in this bill.
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Speaker 2: That is got to feel and sound so frustrating to the folks who were so deeply affected. This bill funds the government through the end of January. Hopefully, I say, hopefully giving Congress enough time to negotiate that long term deal. And if they don't, yeah, this might be groundhog Day all over again.
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Speaker 4: At the end of January.
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Speaker 1: The government reopened today and officially the clock is ticking on the next shutdown is where.
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Speaker 4: We do you think lessons have been learned?
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: They would be political lessons for them, only only what they if they see polling that says yep. This was our came to our advantage to keep hurting the American people. They will continue to do it if they think they're gaining any ground.
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Speaker 2: And the problem is twenty twenty six is in midterm election year, a very important year politically and we I'm sorry this might sound cynical. It's just from experience. This is how they vote. It determines whether or not they get re elected. Yes.
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Speaker 4: Period.
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Speaker 1: So a short time after the President's signature reopened the government. That was obviously great news, we got some more good news. The FAA is going to cap flight cancelations at six percent for now. This was I didn't expect this news so soon after, but this news came fairly immediately after.
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Speaker 2: This is huge because I was questioning why are they continuing to ramp up cancelations if the government is now officially reopened.
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Speaker 4: So this is a huge relief for a lot of folks.
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Speaker 2: The plan had been for flight cancelations to go up to eight percent today and then ten percent tomorrow, but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said they are seen a rapid decline in callouts from air traffic controllers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the six percent reduction currently in place will remain indefinitely. Don't know when that might end, but it's staying there for now. And as they put it, they are assessing whether the system can gradually return to normal operations. Still, the cancelations of their ropes. This is a good good sign for them to say, we don't have to do anymore. We can just hold This is a very positive note.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes, we're vera and anyone who was worried about their Thanksgiving travel plans, and certainly understandably, so I feel like now you can kind of your shoulders can relax. They can drop not out of the woods, out of the US, but not as scary.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, now get this, folks.
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Speaker 1: Just as soon as they pass this damn bill, Congress is already trying to repeal at least part of it.
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Speaker 2: This is insane. You got to listen to this. The House is now going to vote next week on repealing a provision that some say was slipped into the bill, and nobody seems to be sure or willing to confess where it came from and who is responsible for it.
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Speaker 1: What is this provision, you ask, Well, it allows senators to sue the government and be awarded a minimum of five hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer money. Say what now, Well, let us explain.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: You remember earlier this year when it was revealed that eight Republican senators had their phone records obtained without their knowledge as part of a then DOJ attorney Jacksmiths investigated into the January sixth attacks. That was a big deal for these senators to hear that their information had been taken without their knowledge. Well, the provision and the funding bill now would allow those senators to sue and be paid a minimum robes of five hundred thousand dollars if they win their case against the government. Again, that's just the minimum amount.
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Speaker 3: They would get.
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Speaker 4: Whoo.
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Speaker 2: Speaker Johnson said this. He was shocked and angry when he found out of it at the eleventh hour, So who did.
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Speaker 1: This ropes They don't. Nobody's taking responsibility. Nobody said, well where to come in? Well, I don't know who put it in there? Well who's job?
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: They're absolutely there's nobody ability. There was one outlet. They called every single office to try to find out, and everybody's like.
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Speaker 4: M wasn't me, wasn't me.
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Speaker 1: So they're arguing now Rode that they are going to vote and get that taken out now, and some are coming out and say, yeah, of course it shouldn't be in there, but nobody knows.
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Speaker 2: You know what though, It's just just when we need to start rebuilding trust again in our government and the people who we have elected to lead our government. This is just gross, like when no one, like if someone just said, okay, it was me, you know, the fact that no one's admitting it that I feel like we're dealing with children.
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Speaker 1: The argument some are standing by say well, the reason this is there, let me just put this out there, saying we want to make sure this can never happen again, So we want to make an example and make it so punitive.
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Speaker 4: And line our pockets with that money.
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Speaker 3: Well maybe I'm sure they're going to donate it.
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Speaker 2: To Jerry uh huh, but it's taxpayer dollars. We've been through enough. We've been through enough, all right, now that they're all finally back at work and the government has reopened one of their first orders of business, Jeffrey Epstein, you.
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Speaker 1: Can't make this stuff up. So Speaker Johnson said he is now going to call a vote next week on releasing the Epstein files. At this point, I don't even know what the Epstein files are. I guess just everything y'all got put it out there now. The Speaker Johnson is not doing this out of the kindness of his own heart. His hand is being forced after House members collected enough signatures to compel the Speaker to call this vote.
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Speaker 2: So news of this vote comes after yesterday's release of years old Epstein emails by the House Oversight Committee, and of course, one of the big headlines we have a whole podcast on this that we put out yesterday that Epstein wrote that Trump quote knew about the girls end quote, and he wrote in an email that Trump had spent hours at Epstein's home with Virginia Geuffrey. So we just want to put this out there. President Trump has never been accused of wrongdoing. He's always denied that he did anything criminal, and even Virginia Dufrey herself said he was always pleasant around here. So no one's suggesting that President Trump did anything with these girls.
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Speaker 4: It the suggestion is, or at least the absolute outright.
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Speaker 2: Statement is from Epstein that Trump knew what was going on in his home.
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Speaker 3: Continuing on the run here now with Diddy.
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Speaker 1: His expected release date is all over the place, robes. It's changed already now. He's only been in prison for Dick's Prison in New Jersey for about two weeks.
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Speaker 3: Been eventful two weeks.
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Speaker 4: I was gonna say lots happened in those two weeks.
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Speaker 2: Originally did He's release date was listed as May eighth, twenty twenty eight, but now it's changed to June fourth, twenty twenty eight. That's about a month later than originally listed by the Federal Bureau of Prison's inmate records. There has been no explanation given from the prison as to why there is this change in date, but it does come after there were some reported rules violations, including misuse of Ditty's phone privileges. Within like a few days of him getting there.
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Speaker 1: And that's when we know CBS obtained the records that's verifiable. That one is verified. And this was a it was a three way call. He wasn't supposed to add somebody to the call. You can only call one person.
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Speaker 4: They are your violation of prison rules. You can't.
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Speaker 2: You can only have certain people that are already on a pre approved phone list. And so if someone brings someone else in, you could bring anyone in who isn't approved to be on the phone list.
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Speaker 1: Big deal, all right, So TMZ. In addition to that, though, they reported that he was caught with homemade prison alcohol, but his reps came out publicly vehemently denied that, so that one's up in the air. But a month got added. He's been in prison for two weeks and he's already had a month added to his seat.
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Speaker 2: And it's interesting because the records that CBS obtained about his phone violations specifically stated their recommendation for what the punishment should be, and that was basically ninety days without PHAM privileges and ninety days without extra commissary privileges. So it had no mention of a pushed back prison release.
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Speaker 3: Date, and the reason we say is a thing is all over the place.
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Speaker 1: As soon as he got in there, we got confirmation he was in this rehab program that can cut up to a year off your sentence, and now he got a month.
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Speaker 4: So I don't know, there's going to be a ditty update like every few days.
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Speaker 3: This is what it's supposed to get. Quiet.
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Speaker 4: It's a leaky prison. Apparently.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on the run here on this Friday e folks, we want to mention here thoughts and prayers of many this morning are with Reverend Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader, civil rights icon really at this point has been hospitalized this morning.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been under observation for progressive super nuclear palsy. It's a rare degenerative condition. He was diagnosed with it back in April, and he's eighty four years old. He's already been diagnosed and is deal with Parkinson's for more than a decade now. So he's battling a lot of things right now. He's at an age where that is scarier than typical. So our thoughts and prayers are certainly with him and his family.
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Speaker 1: All right, folks, and stay with us here on this Thursday morning run when we come back, folks, it's a rap for those pennies, but don't throw them out. We'll explain. Also coming up, we've seen a lot of companies, even a lot of celebrities go through name changes. Nobody has had one that's about to be as expensive as the Secretary of Defenses new business cards. All right, folks, let's continue on this Thursday morning run. Calling Pete Hegseth the Secretary of War instead of the Secretary of Defense. Is ropes a really costly proposition.
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Speaker 2: That's right, NBC News is reporting it is going to potentially cost I would never have guessed.
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Speaker 4: This two that makes sense billion.
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Speaker 2: With the b dollars to go through the process of changing the name of the Defense Department officially to the War Department, as directed by President Trump via executive order.
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Speaker 1: According to NBC's sources, the cost of rewriting code for all those Pentagon websites, changing signs, badges, letterheads, as well as updating all this stuff at signage all over the world. On our basis, yes, we'll cost upwards up two billion dollars.
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Speaker 3: Part of that.
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Speaker 1: I didn't think about this, but they have a lot of internal and external websites sites that we can jump on as citizens. But think of all of that internal stuff they have going on. They have to change and rewrite all this code so everything says Department of War. They said, that's tricky.
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Speaker 4: Why could that two billion dollars go to help? Who could that serve?
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Speaker 2: How much good could that money do beyond a name change?
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Speaker 1: It's it's serving our messaging, and that two billion dollars is going to send the message to everybody around the war that we don't mess around.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, all right.
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Speaker 2: A Pentagon spokesperson said they are quote aggressively implement and implementing the name change, but it's not clear if everything will get changed and just how soon those changes will take place. One note, the administration can informally refer to it as the Department of War.
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Speaker 4: To change the name officially would take an Act of Congress. So if you can't change the.
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Speaker 2: Name officially without Congress voting to approve it, how can they spend two billion dollars to change all of the signage and to change all of the internal websites and external.
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Speaker 1: It's like, my full name is Lutilius Holmes Junior. I go by TJ. Now if I in my professional career over the past twenty five years. Want to go back now and I want to change all of that stuff to my official and my real name. A change like you can do it, we will do it all the time. So we can still refer to the Defense Department as the War Department. But to actually change it officially, it can't be done unless Congress does.
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Speaker 2: But how can they change signs then if Congress hasn't approved it, that's not just colloquially calling it something different.
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Speaker 3: But to your point.
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Speaker 1: About my name there, I whoop up my point about my name. I chose to just call myself TJ. I didn't go to the government and go through a process and do a legal name change. I just decided to call myself TJ. You met, You've never called me anything but TJ.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So even when I'm mad at you, I don't go to your lutilius.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's kind of the thing they're doing is like that. I just I want everybody to call me this, and that's what everybody's.
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Speaker 3: Gonna call me.
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Speaker 1: My business cards, my whole it's been that, But officially I'm still the Defense Department.
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Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's so worth two billion dollars.
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Speaker 1: You know what a lot of pennies in that two billion, and there ain't no more for him because the penny is officially over. As we wrap up this Thursday morning run, pennies are officially over after two d and thirty years. The last penny was minted yesterday, and Philadelphia administration made the decision earlier this year to end production of the one cent coin because frankly it was costing too much.
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Speaker 2: I support this, uh I do. It's annoying to have to even like deal with pennies. Mass production of pennies ceased months ago, by the way, but yesterday they minted the final five. They will not go into circulation. They're gonna be auctioned off instead. And by the way, do not throw away your pennies because they're still legal tender.
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Speaker 4: And will remain so.
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Speaker 2: And there are three hundred billion pennies still in circulation. I actually had to look up how much that is.
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Speaker 4: Can you do the math? I'm terrible with this kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: You I just need to.
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Speaker 1: Take two zeros off of thirty three hundred billion, so three billion.
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Speaker 2: It's thirty million, that's according to AI. My my whatever, it's thirty million dollars. I cannot deal with all those zeros. It'd be lovely to have to, but I don't deal with all those zeros.
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Speaker 3: But is this an issue or not?
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Speaker 1: But it could have a financial implication here because people are gonna use a lot of people still use cash, use coins.
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Speaker 3: You go to a store, Oh yeah, are you around? No pennies?
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Speaker 2: There?
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Speaker 3: Up around it?
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Speaker 4: You people? So I can I haven't used cash like pennies.
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Speaker 2: When if you actually pulled a penny out of your pocket and put it down for tender, like legal tender to actually pay for something I cannot remember.
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Speaker 3: You see a penny on the ground, you can pick.
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Speaker 4: It up all day long. You'll have good luck.
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Speaker 3: Was the last time you do that? You just walk past a penny somebody?
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Speaker 2: I actually feel guilty when I do it that maybe that's gonna give me bad luck.
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Speaker 4: So sometimes I've picked it up.
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Speaker 3: Please pick up your.
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Speaker 1: Pennies, folks, they are they're gonna be rarities soon enough. Before we let you go, h something. We always like to leave you with something where you consider as you go about your day. It is our quote of the day, and this one is the one we talked about off the Top that had robes. Hey, look, I'll admit it had me in tears ever since every time time I hear it as well. But the context for it, it's from Tony Todd, star of Candy Man and also star of the Final Destination movies and the Final Final Destination that came out this summer.
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Speaker 3: He played a role.
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Speaker 1: He had been sick with cancer for a long long time, but they brought him back to be a part of this movie and you could tell he was much thinner, his voice was different, but he delivers just a golden final moment for himself and Final Destination. And this is the quote that sticks with us.
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Speaker 2: I intend to enjoy the time I have left, and I suggest you do the same.
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Speaker 4: Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know when and.
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Speaker 1: The reason that's powerful words without the story, but knowing those words were delivered by an iconic actor who's been in some iconic roles and this was his final moment in film, and that is the message he left us with. And then he passed away, of course earlier this year, and is just an incredible moment. And if you haven't seen the movie, if you don't want to see the movie. It's on HBO Max. Fast forward to that part. I just listened. It's five minutes that he's in there.
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Speaker 4: The cool thing is the story.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, it's a horror movie and it's all about you know, death is coming for you. So he's telling this to kids who are trying to cheat death basically, and he said death is coming for all of us. Is what he started out with, and it's just a reminder for anyone who is battling something, who has lost someone. This is a powerful quote. And to hear him deliver it with such it was, yes, with his iconic voice, but also with such purity and love and meaning, and it was so deeply personal.
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Speaker 4: He wasn't just delivering a line in a movie.
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Speaker 2: He was speaking truth, and he was speaking from his heart and what he was actually living and dealing with, and that's what makes it so powerful.
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Speaker 1: So, folks, we incur, really really really. You don't have to be a horror movie fan, but I It is called Final Destination Bloodlines. It's the most recent Final Destination movie. It's on HBO Max. If you don't want to, Yes, we love the movie, watch the whole thing, but fast forward to that part. And just listen to Tony Todd. But again, I intend to enjoy the time I have left, and I suggest you do the same. Life is precious. Enjoy every single second. You never know when. Thank you, Tony Todd. I wanted to reserve and not take this moment to be offended once again at the Academy for leaving him out of the end memorial.
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Speaker 2: I know we were just saying that if you know, they loved him out, but if, man, if they had just ended it with that line, because how cool? Who do you know who has been able to deliver a line like that within months of dying and have it live on in a film like that for all to see.
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Speaker 4: I mean, how special is that? Thank you, Tony Todd.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and thank you all for running with us as always for now, I am TJ. Holmes, a man of my still wiping away tears partner Amy Roeboch. We will talk to y'all real since mhmm mm hmmmmm