Sept. 3, 2026
(Thursday) Morning Run: Clancy Jury Near 30hrs, NBA Record Fine, MN Active Shooter, Reward for Stolen Beer, Lionel Ritchie Back Home, Jordan’s Comeback, & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, also known as Friday Eve, September 3rd. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. You just reminded me, it does not feel like a holiday weekend coming up. Why?
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Speaker 2: Because we're working so much. Is that right?
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Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, this Lindsay Clancy trial. Yes, we're day six of deliberations, and we didn't Nobody thought we'd get to this, but it's been drawing out every day and keeping everybody kind of glued, waiting for something to happen, and some stuff has been happening.
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Speaker 2: Just not the stuff we were expecting to happen, like, oh, I don't know, a verdict?
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Speaker 1: A verdict. So, yeah, maybe that's what it feels like. I don't know. Maybe the rest of the country, we've had, I guess, we've had bad rain. We've had some flooding. I don't know. We seem like we've been focused on everything, but. relaxing as a nation right um.
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Speaker 2: So maybe that's what we can do over the next.
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Speaker 1: Couple of days okay so yes folks we do have a big holiday weekend coming up wherever you may be hope you're getting off to a good start on this friday eve we're going to be making a number of stops today in minneapolis and jackson mississippi mississippi we'll be making a stop at the oval office at the democratic republic of congo also a couple of stops in southern california but let's start robes where we have four I mean, this is the sixth week of this trial, and it is wrapping up there in Massachusetts. I've said several days. Today has to be it, baby.
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Speaker 2: Well, and it's funny. I hadn't even thought about the fact that we're up against Labor Day weekend, which makes it all the more likely that there will be some sort of resolution. If not today, certainly by tomorrow. The jury is returning, though, this morning for, can you believe it, day three. of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Jurors told the judge for a second time yesterday they are deadlocked and don't believe they will be able to come to a unanimous decision.
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Speaker 1: But after they told the judge that for the second time, he told them to go back again, but this time he gave them a special instruction. This is meant to give guidance for reaching consensus. Sent them back to continue their deliberations. They've been at it as we start this morning. How many hours, Roach?
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Speaker 2: Look, by most accounts, they say... just shy of 30 29 hours give or take a few that's where the latest count.
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Speaker 1: Is so it'll start back up this morning uh and we'll keep an eye supposed to be nine o'clock they have not been starting on time really throughout there's always some issue of some kind that delays but nine o'clock they're supposed to be back in there and he's gonna send them back at it robes if they go um i guess it followed kind of a pattern when they wrapped up it seemed like they slept on it a couple of nights and then they came in took a vote and came back pretty quickly had something to say.
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Speaker 2: So We shall see. But yesterday we also found out a lot more about the woman who was arrested for allegedly trying to take pictures of the jury. Well, it turns out there's a whole lot more to it than that. Dawn Light, yes, that is her name, made a court appearance where prosecutors revealed that Light actually had video of the jurors on her phone when she was confronted by police this week. She had put it in her deleted files, but she did not outsmart police. They found it pretty quickly. And, yes, she parked her car in a restricted parking lot behind the courthouse in an area that is off limits to the public and the press. She claimed, though, she wasn't there to take video of the jurors.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she just wanted to see Lindsay. Lindsay, who just turned the damn TV on. She said she wanted to see Lindsay and was trying to get a picture. That was not a Lindsay Clancy picture on her phone, by the way. She is facing pretty serious charge of jury intimidation. She was released, though has no criminal record as a mother, a retired nurse who'd been in the area, and the scene afterwards, Robes, was... maddening and hilarious at times.
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Speaker 2: Yeah she was running but like smiling and laughing at the same time and intermittently speaking to the press who also appeared to be laughing as they were running backpedaling as we call.
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Speaker 1: It why are you running why are you running guys were saying that to her it was a silly scene that played out but it just it this sounded robes i don't know what she was going to do with that video but by all accounts of what they described yesterday Thank goodness this was stopped. And they have put restrictions. She's not supposed to disseminate anything she might have. But, Roe, just to think, there's video. Somebody had video of these jurors.
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Speaker 2: Of the juries. And, look, she is facing, as you pointed out, serious, serious charges. So it is no laughing matter, Dawn Light. All right, next up on the run, Iran launched new attacks on U.S. targets in the region last night. This follows days of strikes by the United States, which started over the weekend and certainly represented the first fighting in that area in a month.
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Speaker 1: Iran claims the most recent U.S. strikes hit a wedding party, killing two women and two children. The U.S. responded to that saying, of course, they do not target civilians, but they are looking into that matter. Robes, this is disturbing that we wake up every day and now we hear about new strikes, new strikes, new strikes after we went a month with Iran. None of that. But according to the president, no talks are ongoing. So oil prices are hovering a little higher. Gas prices are ticking up at this moment.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, police got into a shootout with the suspect at a high rise in downtown Minnesota. This was such a frightening.
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Speaker 1: Minneapolis. My apologies. That was Minneapolis.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Minneapolis. And I should have caught that. But yes, this was a frightening and disturbing scene. So we know this morning three people are dead. Several others are injured, including three police officers, and the shooter, the suspected shooter, is also among the dead.
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Speaker 1: They do not, according to police, know how the shooter died. They're looking into that, so don't know if he was self-inflicted or if police actually got him. It essentially is the question. Police were called to this high-rise apartment building. Said officers followed the sound of gunshots, eventually got into a gunfight with the suspect. Two officers were shot. Another had unspecified injuries, but all three are expected to make full recoveries. Police aren't saying a motive, but local affiliates are reporting Robes, who this person is and was known to police and someone who was just evicted from the building and was supposed to be getting out very, very soon.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's a confusing scene because there was apparently some haze that police were encountering some substance in the air that actually affected some officers as well. So they're not even really sure what the scene was like inside or how this all unfolded. But certainly we expect some more answers today. But next up on the run, this one caught your eye, babe, yesterday. You were freaking out. You gave some perspective to the situation. But the NBA has issued the largest fine in league history to the Los Angeles Clippers. That fine, $ 30 million.
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Speaker 1: This is awful. Awful for the league. Awful for this team. But they came down hard on the Clippers after a year-long investigation into allegations that the team was getting around salary cap rules. by promising star Kawhi Leonard money outside of his NBA contract. I guess that is the best way to put it, but, ropes, there are rules in the NBA. Every team has to, you can spend the same amount of money. It's called a salary cap. If you go over that, you get penalized. So you can only pay your players so much money. So they brought him to the team, gave him a contract to pay him this money. But they wanted to give him more to sweeten the deal. So they went to outside companies. and said, hey, we'll put you in touch with these companies, and you can have partnerships and brand partnerships, and they will give you some more endorsement money. So you're getting a bigger package, even though it's not officially coming from us. Robes, that is flat-out cheating. That is the worst kind of cheating for this league. You cannot... Have that. This is as bad as it gets.
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Speaker 2: So in addition to the Clippers being fined $ 30 million, the owner, Steve Ballmer, is suspended from all team activities for a full year, and the team is losing five first-round draft picks. That is crazy.
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Speaker 1: This team is going to be at the bottom of the league for a while. Five first-round picks. That's how you build your team, getting the first-round pick, getting the best players. They came down. They dropped a hammer on these folks.
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Speaker 2: And we were, I was actually asking you yesterday, what about the actual player, Kawhi Leonard? And you said TBD. Well, we now know he too is being fined $ 700, 000.
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Speaker 1: They could have avoided his contract. They didn't do worse. He gave some apologies, said I learned some lessons, blah, blah, blah. But this is a bad one for the league, Robes. Continuing on the run here now, disturbing update yesterday from health officials about the ongoing Ebola outbreak. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, they have now confirmed nearly 6,200 cases. And get this, just over 3,000 are deaths.
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Speaker 2: That's a 50% death rate. That is so frightening. And this is now the worst outbreak in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo and one of the fastest moving deaths. It was declared a global emergency in May, but it's believed that it might have been spreading for weeks before it was identified, and that is why health officials say they cannot catch up. I also read that the African Centers for Disease Control, they believe the numbers that we just gave you, 6,200 cases, over 3,000 deaths, they say you could probably triple those numbers. That's the actual number that they're dealing with right now. Triple the official count.
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Speaker 1: They say they're so behind in this thing. And these are war-torn regions, so you can't get a lot ofâ well, they were burning down medical tents and whatnot. And you got workers on the move. And then kids are not going to be going back to school, or supposed to, Robes. They're wondering how that's going to have an impact. So it doesn't look like this thing is slowing down anytime soon. Continuing on the run here now, Robes, I really, really needed this news.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you did.
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Speaker 1: You were worried. Robes, I was not feeling good. yesterday, but we got word Lionel Richie is at least home. Robes, I was, because we weren't getting solid updates, and we were hearing you just went in for precautions, and then day after day, he's still in the hospital, so this is good to hear.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we heard first mild dehydration, and then we started hearing cardiac issues, and that's a big difference, so The legendary singer had checked himself into a hospital after his concert over the weekend in St. Louis. He actually had to sit down while he was singing all night long. And official updates, as you mentioned, babe, have been few and far between. But now, yes, we are hearing from multiple outlets that he has made it back home and is recovering. And, you know, when you're of a certain age, you just, anytime you hear about hospitalization, that can go from bad to worse very quickly.
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Speaker 1: He's 77, right? Yeah. Yeah. He just looks so good and he's so active all the time that we don't register. Yes, this is a 77-year-old guy who is really, really active and wearing really, really tight leather pants.
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Speaker 2: I knew you were going to get that in there.
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Speaker 1: He looks great.
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Speaker 2: I was waiting for it. You're like, that leather doesn't breathe.
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Speaker 1: He needs to.
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Speaker 2: Wear some more cotton.
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Speaker 1: Zara makes some wide leg stuff. That's awesome. Stop. All right, folks. Well, stay with us on this Friday Eve run. We've got some pretty exciting news about who might be making a comeback at the Olympics. Also, some sad news. One of the absolute greatest jazz singers of all time has passed away at the age of 70. Also coming up, the president has finally chimed in on what he thinks about Harry and Meghan leaving the U.S., and somebody wants their $ 70, 000 worth of beer back, and they're willing to pay $ 20, 000 for it.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, on your Thursday or Friday Eve morning run. And next up, Jordan Childs has decided to keep going for gold. While she still fights for the bronze, by the way, she still is trying to get that bronze medal officially in her hands.
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Speaker 1: Did you know? I didn't realize. That's still going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't get any resolution.
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Speaker 1: That bronze medal from 2024 Paris that they were fighting back and forth. The Romanian young lady, she was back?
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Speaker 2: That's just.
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Speaker 1: Because of a scoring error and all that?
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Speaker 2: What's the delay? That's what I don't get.
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Speaker 1: Like, make a decision. It keeps going to different courts and who has jurisdiction and this one wins and then that one says no. It's that kind of just legal mess. What a mess. Anyway, she's still fighting for that bronze. This is cool, Robe. She's going to be back for the Olympics in 2028. She hopes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was cute the way she put it. She put it up on Instagram, LA2028, why not? So that's pretty exciting. Yes, she won team gold in Paris, and we'll maybe find out about the bronze when she's fighting for gold.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be funny? She finally gets the bronze around the time. I love it. I love it. She's one of the biggest personalities. The talent is off the charts. But she has good energy. She does. I love some Jordan Childs.
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Speaker 2: We're excited about that. But next up on the run, the woman once named America's Best Singer by Time Magazine has passed away and way, way too early. She was too young for this. Jazz legend Cassandra Wilson died in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, surrounded by her loved ones, according to a statement by her rep.
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Speaker 1: She's a two-time Grammy winner. And by the way, those two Grammys were for Best Jazz Album, actually. But she was known for a unique and unmistakable voice in which she was able to bend and blend genres. Again, Rope's 70 years old. You hear that and go, what the actual hell? That's young.
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Speaker 2: That is so young.
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Speaker 1: These days, but no cause of death has been released. But the Ever by John Batiste and folks of that ilk are... the outpouring of messages for her passing. But 70 years old, again, no cause of death, but she has gotten some of the highest honors that jazz musicians can get. She is worth note.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, President Trump was asked yesterday, this is a funny question, but it elicited a An answer that is memorable. He was asked how he felt about Harry and Meghan leaving the United States and heading back to the UK.
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Speaker 1: Now, what would you think he would... I know you know the answer here now, but I'm thinking, what would I think he would say?
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Speaker 2: I would have thought he would have been more kind. I didn't realize he had such... ill feelings about the two. I'm actually a little shocked that he actually has feelings about the two.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know how he feels about King Charles.
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Speaker 2: That's true, I guess.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is, right?
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Speaker 2: But it's King Charles' son, and regardless, I think as a father, you know you are always, almost always willing to forgive just about anything because we want... a relationship with our children. So I would have thought as a parent, he would have understood this. But yes, he was asked what he thought about them leaving. And he said, I'm happy about it. And not in the good way that you would think, like what I just mentioned, like, oh, maybe they can reunite and maybe they can repair some damage.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm happy to go.
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Speaker 2: No. He said, I thought they treated the royal family with great disrespect. I didn't like it. I didn't like the way she acted. I thought she was terribly disrespectful to the queen, to King Charles. Maybe I'm different. I wouldn't have taken them back. If I were the royal family, I would not have taken him back.
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Speaker 1: Wow. I mean, okay.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's a warning to his children.
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Speaker 1: Behave, Baron.
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Speaker 2: You better kiss the ring.
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Speaker 1: Or you're out. That's tough. I mean, what is he going to say? But, yes, he has a great affinity for King Charles. He wants to be photographed next to him. He wants to be viewed as that type of thing. I'm not making that up. It's clear. Look at his social media.
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Speaker 2: We believe you. We just saw his face on a golden coin. So, yes, very king-like of him.
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Speaker 1: All right, last stop on the run here now. Pabst Blue Ribbon is offering $ 20, 000 in a reward to anybody who can help them get their beer back, Robes.
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Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. So thieves got away with 1,600 cases of beer from a distribution center in Southern California. The heists involved the suspects using forged documents. We've seen a lot of this.
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Speaker 1: And it works.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have forged documents they pull up with an official-looking truck. Then they are, you know, posing as someone, yeah, we got a beer pickup at the warehouse, got to make this delivery.
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Speaker 1: And load them up, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Load it up with the help of workers, and then ultimately just stole and drove off with $ 70, 000 worth of beer.
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Speaker 1: The CEO of Pat Blue Ribbon, he did put a, he was on social media, and this was his line, I'm sure they look cool with a garage full of PBR. But he says we want our stuff back.
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Speaker 2: And so I guess it's kind of hard to hide all of that beer. So if someone knows that someone just packed their garage full of this PBR.
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Speaker 1: Baby, what do you do with it? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: They must have like a storage unit somewhere. No, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Is there a market for it? Like how do you.
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Speaker 2: Go sell Pabst Blue Ribbon?
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Speaker 1: On a secondary market? There's a market for that beer?
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Speaker 2: It's not like it's some fine bourbon or some.
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Or is this somebody that just wants it at the house, just stocked up?
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Speaker 2: PBR, don't they prefer... No, Milwaukee's Best is the beast. I was trying to remember all the.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that one.
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Speaker 2: The beer that I drank in college.
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Speaker 1: I just remember Cold 45. The commercial from Billy Dee. Works every time. That's what he used to say.
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Speaker 2: PBR. PBR. It's a lyric in many a country music song, or at least a Jimmy Buffett song, I think, is coming to mind. Or is it Zac Brown Band? He has PBR in one of his lines. It's not what you think.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the song. Okay, go ahead. All right.
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Speaker 2: All right. Quote of the day, everyone. How about this? The magic in your childhood wasn't because you were a child. It was because you were living in the present.
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Speaker 1: Which is something only a child can do usually. No, I get that.
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Speaker 2: But we can focus on being more like that, literally smelling the roses. Appreciating the little things.
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Speaker 1: I'm not in a good way because I'm totally challenging your quote. It's supposed to be a nice thing, and I'm taking it the wrong way.
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Speaker 2: Wait, well, which way are you taking it?
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Speaker 1: Because a child can do that because they can be worry-free because they don't have any worries. They don't have any concerns.
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Speaker 2: We can choose not to worry.
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Speaker 1: But we have things that kids don't have. I'm sorry. I'm being negative. I understand. You're right. I'm being ridiculous. This is stupid to make an argument on a beautiful quote.
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Speaker 2: Well, I guess I feel like the point is, yes, we do have those things, but we can list them and compartmentalize them and still choose to be in the present and choose because worrying doesn't change things.
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Speaker 1: Not a thing.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, we know that intellectually.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: And we have to remind ourselves. So the magic in your childhood wasn't because you were a child. It was because you were living in the present.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to stay in this present moment right now. I love it.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: We just did a nice... Episode, we got it. It's going to go up on time. I'm sitting across from the woman I love. The audio seems to be working. Everything's great. I'm staying in this moment.
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Speaker 2: We got some storms outside, which is our favorite. Life is good, everyone. So thank you for running with us on this Friday Eve. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll be running with you soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Thursday, also known as Friday Eve, September 3rd. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. You just reminded me, it does not feel like a holiday weekend coming up. Why?
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Speaker 2: Because we're working so much. Is that right?
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Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, this Lindsay Clancy trial. Yes, we're day six of deliberations, and we didn't Nobody thought we'd get to this, but it's been drawing out every day and keeping everybody kind of glued, waiting for something to happen, and some stuff has been happening.
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Speaker 2: Just not the stuff we were expecting to happen, like, oh, I don't know, a verdict?
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Speaker 1: A verdict. So, yeah, maybe that's what it feels like. I don't know. Maybe the rest of the country, we've had, I guess, we've had bad rain. We've had some flooding. I don't know. We seem like we've been focused on everything, but. relaxing as a nation right um.
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Speaker 2: So maybe that's what we can do over the next.
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Speaker 1: Couple of days okay so yes folks we do have a big holiday weekend coming up wherever you may be hope you're getting off to a good start on this friday eve we're going to be making a number of stops today in minneapolis and jackson mississippi mississippi we'll be making a stop at the oval office at the democratic republic of congo also a couple of stops in southern california but let's start robes where we have four I mean, this is the sixth week of this trial, and it is wrapping up there in Massachusetts. I've said several days. Today has to be it, baby.
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Speaker 2: Well, and it's funny. I hadn't even thought about the fact that we're up against Labor Day weekend, which makes it all the more likely that there will be some sort of resolution. If not today, certainly by tomorrow. The jury is returning, though, this morning for, can you believe it, day three. of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Jurors told the judge for a second time yesterday they are deadlocked and don't believe they will be able to come to a unanimous decision.
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Speaker 1: But after they told the judge that for the second time, he told them to go back again, but this time he gave them a special instruction. This is meant to give guidance for reaching consensus. Sent them back to continue their deliberations. They've been at it as we start this morning. How many hours, Roach?
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Speaker 2: Look, by most accounts, they say... just shy of 30 29 hours give or take a few that's where the latest count.
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Speaker 1: Is so it'll start back up this morning uh and we'll keep an eye supposed to be nine o'clock they have not been starting on time really throughout there's always some issue of some kind that delays but nine o'clock they're supposed to be back in there and he's gonna send them back at it robes if they go um i guess it followed kind of a pattern when they wrapped up it seemed like they slept on it a couple of nights and then they came in took a vote and came back pretty quickly had something to say.
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Speaker 2: So We shall see. But yesterday we also found out a lot more about the woman who was arrested for allegedly trying to take pictures of the jury. Well, it turns out there's a whole lot more to it than that. Dawn Light, yes, that is her name, made a court appearance where prosecutors revealed that Light actually had video of the jurors on her phone when she was confronted by police this week. She had put it in her deleted files, but she did not outsmart police. They found it pretty quickly. And, yes, she parked her car in a restricted parking lot behind the courthouse in an area that is off limits to the public and the press. She claimed, though, she wasn't there to take video of the jurors.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she just wanted to see Lindsay. Lindsay, who just turned the damn TV on. She said she wanted to see Lindsay and was trying to get a picture. That was not a Lindsay Clancy picture on her phone, by the way. She is facing pretty serious charge of jury intimidation. She was released, though has no criminal record as a mother, a retired nurse who'd been in the area, and the scene afterwards, Robes, was... maddening and hilarious at times.
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Speaker 2: Yeah she was running but like smiling and laughing at the same time and intermittently speaking to the press who also appeared to be laughing as they were running backpedaling as we call.
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Speaker 1: It why are you running why are you running guys were saying that to her it was a silly scene that played out but it just it this sounded robes i don't know what she was going to do with that video but by all accounts of what they described yesterday Thank goodness this was stopped. And they have put restrictions. She's not supposed to disseminate anything she might have. But, Roe, just to think, there's video. Somebody had video of these jurors.
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Speaker 2: Of the juries. And, look, she is facing, as you pointed out, serious, serious charges. So it is no laughing matter, Dawn Light. All right, next up on the run, Iran launched new attacks on U.S. targets in the region last night. This follows days of strikes by the United States, which started over the weekend and certainly represented the first fighting in that area in a month.
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Speaker 1: Iran claims the most recent U.S. strikes hit a wedding party, killing two women and two children. The U.S. responded to that saying, of course, they do not target civilians, but they are looking into that matter. Robes, this is disturbing that we wake up every day and now we hear about new strikes, new strikes, new strikes after we went a month with Iran. None of that. But according to the president, no talks are ongoing. So oil prices are hovering a little higher. Gas prices are ticking up at this moment.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, police got into a shootout with the suspect at a high rise in downtown Minnesota. This was such a frightening.
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Speaker 1: Minneapolis. My apologies. That was Minneapolis.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Minneapolis. And I should have caught that. But yes, this was a frightening and disturbing scene. So we know this morning three people are dead. Several others are injured, including three police officers, and the shooter, the suspected shooter, is also among the dead.
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Speaker 1: They do not, according to police, know how the shooter died. They're looking into that, so don't know if he was self-inflicted or if police actually got him. It essentially is the question. Police were called to this high-rise apartment building. Said officers followed the sound of gunshots, eventually got into a gunfight with the suspect. Two officers were shot. Another had unspecified injuries, but all three are expected to make full recoveries. Police aren't saying a motive, but local affiliates are reporting Robes, who this person is and was known to police and someone who was just evicted from the building and was supposed to be getting out very, very soon.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's a confusing scene because there was apparently some haze that police were encountering some substance in the air that actually affected some officers as well. So they're not even really sure what the scene was like inside or how this all unfolded. But certainly we expect some more answers today. But next up on the run, this one caught your eye, babe, yesterday. You were freaking out. You gave some perspective to the situation. But the NBA has issued the largest fine in league history to the Los Angeles Clippers. That fine, $ 30 million.
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Speaker 1: This is awful. Awful for the league. Awful for this team. But they came down hard on the Clippers after a year-long investigation into allegations that the team was getting around salary cap rules. by promising star Kawhi Leonard money outside of his NBA contract. I guess that is the best way to put it, but, ropes, there are rules in the NBA. Every team has to, you can spend the same amount of money. It's called a salary cap. If you go over that, you get penalized. So you can only pay your players so much money. So they brought him to the team, gave him a contract to pay him this money. But they wanted to give him more to sweeten the deal. So they went to outside companies. and said, hey, we'll put you in touch with these companies, and you can have partnerships and brand partnerships, and they will give you some more endorsement money. So you're getting a bigger package, even though it's not officially coming from us. Robes, that is flat-out cheating. That is the worst kind of cheating for this league. You cannot... Have that. This is as bad as it gets.
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Speaker 2: So in addition to the Clippers being fined $ 30 million, the owner, Steve Ballmer, is suspended from all team activities for a full year, and the team is losing five first-round draft picks. That is crazy.
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Speaker 1: This team is going to be at the bottom of the league for a while. Five first-round picks. That's how you build your team, getting the first-round pick, getting the best players. They came down. They dropped a hammer on these folks.
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Speaker 2: And we were, I was actually asking you yesterday, what about the actual player, Kawhi Leonard? And you said TBD. Well, we now know he too is being fined $ 700, 000.
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Speaker 1: They could have avoided his contract. They didn't do worse. He gave some apologies, said I learned some lessons, blah, blah, blah. But this is a bad one for the league, Robes. Continuing on the run here now, disturbing update yesterday from health officials about the ongoing Ebola outbreak. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, they have now confirmed nearly 6,200 cases. And get this, just over 3,000 are deaths.
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Speaker 2: That's a 50% death rate. That is so frightening. And this is now the worst outbreak in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo and one of the fastest moving deaths. It was declared a global emergency in May, but it's believed that it might have been spreading for weeks before it was identified, and that is why health officials say they cannot catch up. I also read that the African Centers for Disease Control, they believe the numbers that we just gave you, 6,200 cases, over 3,000 deaths, they say you could probably triple those numbers. That's the actual number that they're dealing with right now. Triple the official count.
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Speaker 1: They say they're so behind in this thing. And these are war-torn regions, so you can't get a lot ofâ well, they were burning down medical tents and whatnot. And you got workers on the move. And then kids are not going to be going back to school, or supposed to, Robes. They're wondering how that's going to have an impact. So it doesn't look like this thing is slowing down anytime soon. Continuing on the run here now, Robes, I really, really needed this news.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you did.
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Speaker 1: You were worried. Robes, I was not feeling good. yesterday, but we got word Lionel Richie is at least home. Robes, I was, because we weren't getting solid updates, and we were hearing you just went in for precautions, and then day after day, he's still in the hospital, so this is good to hear.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we heard first mild dehydration, and then we started hearing cardiac issues, and that's a big difference, so The legendary singer had checked himself into a hospital after his concert over the weekend in St. Louis. He actually had to sit down while he was singing all night long. And official updates, as you mentioned, babe, have been few and far between. But now, yes, we are hearing from multiple outlets that he has made it back home and is recovering. And, you know, when you're of a certain age, you just, anytime you hear about hospitalization, that can go from bad to worse very quickly.
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Speaker 1: He's 77, right? Yeah. Yeah. He just looks so good and he's so active all the time that we don't register. Yes, this is a 77-year-old guy who is really, really active and wearing really, really tight leather pants.
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Speaker 2: I knew you were going to get that in there.
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Speaker 1: He looks great.
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Speaker 2: I was waiting for it. You're like, that leather doesn't breathe.
00:11:04
Speaker 1: He needs to.
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Speaker 2: Wear some more cotton.
00:11:06
Speaker 1: Zara makes some wide leg stuff. That's awesome. Stop. All right, folks. Well, stay with us on this Friday Eve run. We've got some pretty exciting news about who might be making a comeback at the Olympics. Also, some sad news. One of the absolute greatest jazz singers of all time has passed away at the age of 70. Also coming up, the president has finally chimed in on what he thinks about Harry and Meghan leaving the U.S., and somebody wants their $ 70, 000 worth of beer back, and they're willing to pay $ 20, 000 for it.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everyone, on your Thursday or Friday Eve morning run. And next up, Jordan Childs has decided to keep going for gold. While she still fights for the bronze, by the way, she still is trying to get that bronze medal officially in her hands.
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Speaker 1: Did you know? I didn't realize. That's still going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we didn't get any resolution.
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Speaker 1: That bronze medal from 2024 Paris that they were fighting back and forth. The Romanian young lady, she was back?
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Speaker 2: That's just.
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Speaker 1: Because of a scoring error and all that?
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Speaker 2: What's the delay? That's what I don't get.
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Speaker 1: Like, make a decision. It keeps going to different courts and who has jurisdiction and this one wins and then that one says no. It's that kind of just legal mess. What a mess. Anyway, she's still fighting for that bronze. This is cool, Robe. She's going to be back for the Olympics in 2028. She hopes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it was cute the way she put it. She put it up on Instagram, LA2028, why not? So that's pretty exciting. Yes, she won team gold in Paris, and we'll maybe find out about the bronze when she's fighting for gold.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be funny? She finally gets the bronze around the time. I love it. I love it. She's one of the biggest personalities. The talent is off the charts. But she has good energy. She does. I love some Jordan Childs.
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Speaker 2: We're excited about that. But next up on the run, the woman once named America's Best Singer by Time Magazine has passed away and way, way too early. She was too young for this. Jazz legend Cassandra Wilson died in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, surrounded by her loved ones, according to a statement by her rep.
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Speaker 1: She's a two-time Grammy winner. And by the way, those two Grammys were for Best Jazz Album, actually. But she was known for a unique and unmistakable voice in which she was able to bend and blend genres. Again, Rope's 70 years old. You hear that and go, what the actual hell? That's young.
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Speaker 2: That is so young.
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Speaker 1: These days, but no cause of death has been released. But the Ever by John Batiste and folks of that ilk are... the outpouring of messages for her passing. But 70 years old, again, no cause of death, but she has gotten some of the highest honors that jazz musicians can get. She is worth note.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, President Trump was asked yesterday, this is a funny question, but it elicited a An answer that is memorable. He was asked how he felt about Harry and Meghan leaving the United States and heading back to the UK.
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Speaker 1: Now, what would you think he would... I know you know the answer here now, but I'm thinking, what would I think he would say?
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Speaker 2: I would have thought he would have been more kind. I didn't realize he had such... ill feelings about the two. I'm actually a little shocked that he actually has feelings about the two.
00:14:27
Speaker 1: Well, you know how he feels about King Charles.
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Speaker 2: That's true, I guess.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is, right?
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Speaker 2: But it's King Charles' son, and regardless, I think as a father, you know you are always, almost always willing to forgive just about anything because we want... a relationship with our children. So I would have thought as a parent, he would have understood this. But yes, he was asked what he thought about them leaving. And he said, I'm happy about it. And not in the good way that you would think, like what I just mentioned, like, oh, maybe they can reunite and maybe they can repair some damage.
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Speaker 1: No, I'm happy to go.
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Speaker 2: No. He said, I thought they treated the royal family with great disrespect. I didn't like it. I didn't like the way she acted. I thought she was terribly disrespectful to the queen, to King Charles. Maybe I'm different. I wouldn't have taken them back. If I were the royal family, I would not have taken him back.
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Speaker 1: Wow. I mean, okay.
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Speaker 2: I guess that's a warning to his children.
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Speaker 1: Behave, Baron.
00:15:28
Speaker 2: You better kiss the ring.
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Speaker 1: Or you're out. That's tough. I mean, what is he going to say? But, yes, he has a great affinity for King Charles. He wants to be photographed next to him. He wants to be viewed as that type of thing. I'm not making that up. It's clear. Look at his social media.
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Speaker 2: We believe you. We just saw his face on a golden coin. So, yes, very king-like of him.
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Speaker 1: All right, last stop on the run here now. Pabst Blue Ribbon is offering $ 20, 000 in a reward to anybody who can help them get their beer back, Robes.
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Speaker 2: This is ridiculous. So thieves got away with 1,600 cases of beer from a distribution center in Southern California. The heists involved the suspects using forged documents. We've seen a lot of this.
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Speaker 1: And it works.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have forged documents they pull up with an official-looking truck. Then they are, you know, posing as someone, yeah, we got a beer pickup at the warehouse, got to make this delivery.
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Speaker 1: And load them up, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Load it up with the help of workers, and then ultimately just stole and drove off with $ 70, 000 worth of beer.
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Speaker 1: The CEO of Pat Blue Ribbon, he did put a, he was on social media, and this was his line, I'm sure they look cool with a garage full of PBR. But he says we want our stuff back.
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Speaker 2: And so I guess it's kind of hard to hide all of that beer. So if someone knows that someone just packed their garage full of this PBR.
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Speaker 1: Baby, what do you do with it? I don't know.
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Speaker 2: They must have like a storage unit somewhere. No, no, no.
00:17:03
Speaker 1: Is there a market for it? Like how do you.
00:17:05
Speaker 2: Go sell Pabst Blue Ribbon?
00:17:09
Speaker 1: On a secondary market? There's a market for that beer?
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Speaker 2: It's not like it's some fine bourbon or some.
00:17:14
Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Or is this somebody that just wants it at the house, just stocked up?
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Speaker 2: PBR, don't they prefer... No, Milwaukee's Best is the beast. I was trying to remember all the.
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that one.
00:17:26
Speaker 2: The beer that I drank in college.
00:17:28
Speaker 1: I just remember Cold 45. The commercial from Billy Dee. Works every time. That's what he used to say.
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Speaker 2: PBR. PBR. It's a lyric in many a country music song, or at least a Jimmy Buffett song, I think, is coming to mind. Or is it Zac Brown Band? He has PBR in one of his lines. It's not what you think.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the song. Okay, go ahead. All right.
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Speaker 2: All right. Quote of the day, everyone. How about this? The magic in your childhood wasn't because you were a child. It was because you were living in the present.
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Speaker 1: Which is something only a child can do usually. No, I get that.
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Speaker 2: But we can focus on being more like that, literally smelling the roses. Appreciating the little things.
00:18:11
Speaker 1: I'm not in a good way because I'm totally challenging your quote. It's supposed to be a nice thing, and I'm taking it the wrong way.
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Speaker 2: Wait, well, which way are you taking it?
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Speaker 1: Because a child can do that because they can be worry-free because they don't have any worries. They don't have any concerns.
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Speaker 2: We can choose not to worry.
00:18:24
Speaker 1: But we have things that kids don't have. I'm sorry. I'm being negative. I understand. You're right. I'm being ridiculous. This is stupid to make an argument on a beautiful quote.
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Speaker 2: Well, I guess I feel like the point is, yes, we do have those things, but we can list them and compartmentalize them and still choose to be in the present and choose because worrying doesn't change things.
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Speaker 1: Not a thing.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, we know that intellectually.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: And we have to remind ourselves. So the magic in your childhood wasn't because you were a child. It was because you were living in the present.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to stay in this present moment right now. I love it.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 1: We just did a nice... Episode, we got it. It's going to go up on time. I'm sitting across from the woman I love. The audio seems to be working. Everything's great. I'm staying in this moment.
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Speaker 2: We got some storms outside, which is our favorite. Life is good, everyone. So thank you for running with us on this Friday Eve. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll be running with you soon.