July 30, 2026
(Thursday) Morning Run: Cyclospora Numbers Rise, "Weiner Wednesday" Investigation, Lindsay Clancy Trial, Jared Leto Accused, Fauci Takes the 5th, Blanche Nom In Trouble, and Best U.S. States
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Hey there everybody.
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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, July thirdy Welcome to Morning Run July thirtieth. I'm starting off great on this Friday Eve. I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 3: And I'm he the Home Suffering Path. It's gonna be a great Thursday at Deathine wasn't expecting that.
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Speaker 2: He We all needed a laugh. You're welcome.
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Speaker 3: We needed it immediately. Thank you for that. What is it I thought you were going to go. I was waiting on thurd Friday Eve to come out. Yeah, you didn't even get that out. We didn't get that far. That's your nickname for Thursday. What do Fridays have a nickname? Freaky Fridays?
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Speaker 4: Maybe? What do we call Mondays?
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Speaker 2: Well, your favorite day of the week is it Manic Monday? We call him Manic Monday. We got a case of the Mondays.
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Speaker 3: You got Taco Tuesday. But Rose just discovered there's something called wiener Wednesday. I didn't know about this. I have never heard it before, but apparently it's the thing wiener Wednesdays.
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Speaker 1: This is all news to me, brought to us by the Mayor of Saint Paul.
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Speaker 3: Yes, we will get into that story and why. Wiener Wednesday has launched an investigation of the mayor of a major American city. But we're going to be making stops all over the place. Yes, we'll make one in Minnesota, but also make a stop in Michigan, Massachusetts at a Senate committee hearing. We'll make a stop at the Federal Reserve in Hollywood as well at the gas pump. And the gas pump Robes is connected to this first story. You need to give an update once again. Another night not so quiet in the war with Iran.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: The US launched a new round of retaliatory air strikes against Iran overnight, Sentcom saying this the strikes are a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Irani and attacks on US forces based in the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: Now, the US struck a missile and drone facilities other size aimed at destroying Iran's maritime capabilities. Meanwhile, peace talks are said, this is the word they're using, Robes. Peace talks are on going, whatever that might mean. But as those talks are ongoing, what is going up right now?
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Speaker 4: Are oil and gas prices?
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Speaker 3: Oil prices surge to actually yesterday went up eight percent, got above ninety dollars a barrel again after President Trump's promise that the US would hit back at Iran last night. Meanwhile, the average cost of a gallon of gas still well above four dollars, sitting at four dollars and nine cents right now.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run, we'll keep talking money here, and the Federal Reserve voted yesterday to keep interest rates unchanged, so they're keeping them at the same levels that they've been at since January.
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Speaker 2: It was a nine to three vote.
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Speaker 1: It was notable that three members of the Reserve voted to increase those interest rates, but again they are unchanged for now.
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Speaker 4: We'll see how this goes.
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Speaker 3: This is the Trump's been wanting control of this and wants his people on this board. Rotes I didn't realize how big of a deal is. They vote unanimously all the time, like for decades. You can only find a couple of instances to have one person vote against the rest to have three.
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Speaker 4: This is essentially unheard of.
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Speaker 2: Wow, All right, Next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Cyclospora cases in the US have now topped eighteen thousand according to the CDC. They finally are catching up here with their accounting of all of this. The confirmed and suspected cases are now in at least forty five states.
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Speaker 2: That number keeps going up too.
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Speaker 3: Yes, in Michigan, of course, the epicenter of all of this, they are reporting ten thousand cases in that state alone. Health officials believe icebery letters from a tailor farms plant in Mexico and served at Taco Bell restaurants in nine states is responsible for the initial big outbreak. But robes, we have clusters and little outbreaks all over the country now, they're saying, and they don't know where this stuff is coming from and what the source of those outbreaks are. So we talking about lettuce. I don't know what the hell. We don't know what the hell to tell you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, still got a text from my daughter yesterday saying can I order this? And it was a big oldhead of iceberg lettuce, And I said, hell no.
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Speaker 4: You kind of pulled the group in the room. You say, look at what she.
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Speaker 2: Just I was like, look at what my daughter just sent me.
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Speaker 1: But look, remember here we have a number of eighteen thousand that is probably double what it actually is being reported as just because people don't go to the doctor necessarily with the symptoms. They aren't tested, they aren't documented, they aren't added to this list of numbers. But yes, microbiologists say you can double or maybe even triple that number in terms of actual cases.
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Speaker 3: And Michigan sitting at ten thousand cases now, Robes, it's worth always noting they average about forty to fifty a year.
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Speaker 2: That's insane. Cyclos case, that is insane. You know what else was insane?
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Speaker 1: That State judiciary hearing yesterday. It was supposed well, sorry, I'm sorry, I skipped ahead to the other committee, and this is the Senate Judiciary Committee. We've got two Senate Committee stories here, and they're both of note. This first one was supposed to vote today on the nomination of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General. That vote has been postponed and the nomination now appears to be in serious trouble.
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Speaker 4: We'll see what happens with this one man.
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Speaker 3: But two Republicans are withholding their support for Blanche unless they get certain assurances.
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Speaker 4: What do they want?
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Speaker 3: We're talking about John Corny of Texas and Tom Tillis of North Carolina. They are taking particular issue Robes with that sweetheart, Irs deal the President struck with the Justice Department, you know.
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Speaker 1: The one that shields him and his entire family from tax audits and created that anti weaponization fund that so many folks were upset about. Well, Cornan and Tillis say they want in writing a pledge that the anti weaponization fund will not be pursued in the future.
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Speaker 3: They have to have his votes to get it out of committee, to even go to a full Senate votd Cornyn, I mean, he said the same revenge, But damn, the President campaigned against him in the primary, and this dude is out of his job. He's got nothing is holding him back.
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Speaker 1: It's a parting gift to the people. Honestly, I wish more politicians. I wish more politicians had nothing to lose or nothing to gain and actually just voted with their conscience. If senators and congress men and women did that, we would be in a much better position. But now everyone needs to get reelected.
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Speaker 4: Something to term limits. Man, there's something to.
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Speaker 1: It, certainly, all right, Now here was the aforementioned insanity. Next up on the Run, Doctor Anthony Fauci refused to answer any and all questions as in, like, what's the color of your shirt.
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Speaker 2: He invoked the Fifth.
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Speaker 1: Amendment more than a hundred times during that state hearing yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Still they kept asking him questions. What they were doing was putting on a show for the cameras. He wasn't going to answer question and they knew it. But they were just trying to get this on record, get it recorded, get themselves on cable news last night, and sure enough it worked. But they were scolding him. Robes, this is supposed to be about the origins of the COVID vaccine. There are two theories out there. Nobody can prove ropes. There is no consensus. Was it created in a lab, there was an accidental leak, or did it happen naturally in bats, transferred to other animals and then found its way into humans. People don't know. But this would have been a worthy conversation to have. But this was seen as nothing but grand standing, an attempt to get him to say anything, Robes under oath that they could say maybe ain't true, and then they could haul him off to jail.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so he took the Fifth more than a hundred times.
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Speaker 1: But now Senator Rand Paul is threatening to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, and they're actually holding a vote on that next week. They're trying to find a way to hold him accountable, to punish him for not answering questions.
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Speaker 3: What was the language obstructing a congressional investigation. They're suggesting that maybe by not answering he's doing that. Looks like that's the direction they're going to go. Let's turn now to what we were talking about. Off the top, Robes, We had no idea there was a such thing as weener Wednesday. So the mayor of Saint Paul is under investigation for sexual harassment. The allegations against the first female mayor of that city are coming from the very male police chief.
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Speaker 1: Robes all right, and this woman's name is Kaylee. Kaylee Her has been serving as mayor just since January. But in a letter dated April first, that is of note, not an April Fool's Day letter, police Chief Axel Henry said he was filing a formal complaint against the mayor. She's accused of sending inappropriate messages to him and other members of the police department.
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Speaker 2: What were those messages, Babe?
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Speaker 3: It included a meme, right, and I had never heard of this or seen it before.
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Speaker 4: Let me get the exact language.
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Speaker 3: I have to scroll down to the bottom where I was putting together the other note because I want to get the language here right Robes. The message said this quote happy wiener Wednesday, wish I was having. Then it had a hot dog emoji with you all today, and then it had an image, and with the image it said this when she wraps you up in her blanket after you gave her a good weianering. Now this is the mayor of Saint Paul sent this and the image was redacted Robes in the letter, so I don't know exactly what was supposed to show, but it looked like something was swaddled. Well said when you get wrapped after giving somebody a good.
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Speaker 2: Weaning, And I did.
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Speaker 1: I did see that that In one of the articles they were explaining that weianering is a.
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Speaker 2: Verb that references having sex.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we pathetical, obviously yes, but I was laughing that the article felt they needed.
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Speaker 2: To explain what weianering.
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Speaker 3: Actually he meant so, but the mayor is acknowledged this stuff ropes and essentially saying these were poor attempts at humor that fell short of her standard it sounds like she's acknowledging, so you sent this stuff and maybe it was a joke that wasn't taking the right way at.
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Speaker 1: This point though, like with not safe for work, bemes everywhere, I'm just curious how a woman who is and she's a she's a grown woman, she's an older woman. Oh yeah, how she doesn't understand that that's not appropriate. That blows my mind that people still don't get that you can't send messages like that to folks.
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Speaker 4: This, I mean that things could have been worse. This is not okay.
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Speaker 3: I suppose that if anybody was offended by it, that's fine, But they say ropes. This wasn't just the police chief that was sended that God had several members and when he realized it was going around other folks who wanted to stop.
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Speaker 4: And this is why he's getting involved.
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Speaker 3: And now the city has hired an outside law firm to investigate.
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Speaker 2: But yes, Weiener Gabe, Wow, we've already had one of those.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this is this is yes, this is Minneapolis' version is just two yeah, wienergate two.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, things.
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Speaker 1: Got really emotional in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial yesterday.
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Speaker 2: This is going on in Massachusetts.
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Speaker 1: The judge in the case actually had to call for a recess. Lindsay Clancy is on trial for strangling her three young children. She has claimed mental illness and postpartum psychosis are to blame for her actions. So she's pleaded not guilty, even though she's fully admitted to killing her three children.
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Speaker 3: And the first witness we've seen in the case has been her ex husband. He's been on the stand for the first two days of full testimony. He wrapped his testimony yesterday, Bobara counting the day he found his children dead and robes. We didn't hear it because there is a rule this stuff isn't supposed to be released to the public. But they did play in the courtroom the nine to one one call. They say, this go seven plus minutes. But it's when he got to the house, find his wife having jumped out the window, attempt at suicide, and then he goes looking for the children, and that whole scenario ropes plays out in a nine to one one call.
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Speaker 4: After that, the judge we heard him.
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Speaker 3: He had to say something to the jury and just they had to all take a beat.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and look, Lindsay Clancy could be seeing sobbing. She was crying uncontrollably at the devent's table when this nine one one call was played out in court. She even had turned her head because the jurors also saw those bands that she used to strangle her children, those exercise bands, and so yes. The judge acknowledged that some jurors who became visibly upset at the hearing. He said, you know, he was trying to explain to them, there's a difference between an emotional reaction and evidence you have to consider. And it's difficult, but you have to separate the two. And the audio was not released publicly because Patrick himself, Patrick Clancy, actually put a file to petition before the actual trial began, saying he didn't want his children's clothing, he didn't want autopsy photos, he didn't want the nine one one call broadcast to the public.
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Speaker 2: And that's understandable.
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Speaker 3: The description they this is the guy, folks, that he finds his wife and doesn't know where his kids are. He's on the phone with nine one one the whole time you hear him. He goes downstairs. When this man discovers three babies with bands around their neck and on cont you hear it, ye, he's screaming.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's excruciating. Apparently.
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Speaker 3: So oh that was yesterday. In court resumes today, they're back in sessions.
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Speaker 1: They're back in session today, yes, and then next up on the run, Oscar winner Jared Leto strongly denying sexual misconduct allegations being made against him by multiple women, and some of them say they were teenagers when the alleged sexual abuse happened. Ten women have come forward as part of a BBC documentary Jared Leto, Hollywood's Dark Secret. He was actually released yesterday, and four of those women claim they were in their teens when they had encounters with Leto, including one who said she was seventeen and Leto was thirty four when they had sex, and in California she is under the age of consent that would be statutory rape.
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Speaker 2: However, this happened in.
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Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen, I believe, and it wasn't until twenty seventeen that California changed its laws, where at least it retroactively went back to twenty seventeen, meaning there was no statute of limitation anything that happened before then.
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Speaker 2: It was I think six years is the statute of limentation.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like from the allegations here, all of them are outside that when they don't have any avenue to go to criminally correct the allegations. Now, but someone else says she was sixteen when she was groomed by Leto sent her at sexually explicit messages. This was young lady who said she was actually asked to sign non disclosure agreements she never did do, but says she was sixteen at the time.
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Speaker 1: Woo, all right, and Leto did have a response to all of these new allegations. He said, shortly and substinctly, I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Friday Eve morning run. When we come back, schools have come up with a new high tech way to possibly stop school shootings, and we got the new list of the best and worst states to live in.
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Speaker 4: My home state got some work to do.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to your Thursday or Friday Eve as we like to call it, morning run.
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Speaker 2: And next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: This is really an interesting, fascinating stories several schools across three states are employing a new tactic to stop a school shooter within seconds, fast moving drones that are equipped with pepper spray and strobe lights and alarms that can even ram a shooter at six steve miles per hour.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, these are schools in Colorado, Florida, and Georgia. Starting this fall, they're going to be the first to add the drones. The developers say can locate an active shooter in a matter of seconds, within fifteen seconds. They say the drones would also be able to enter rooms ahead of police officers. Obviously, that could save lives. Officers are shot nearly half of all mass shootings. The cost of these robes, it seems it's a little high. But still, if they can get that cost down, why wouldn't everybody.
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Speaker 4: Have this in the school?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the cost is twenty thousand dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: But some I appreciated this perspective. If you hire a school security officer, which many of these schools do, to try and combat any potential would be school shooter, they say that twenty thousand dollars a year is a lot less than hiring a security officer.
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Speaker 3: To have both no way they're going to get rid of a live officer and a school, right, And just say, we've worked with drones a lot over the time, and I know it's expensive with the usually the drone operator. But how much are drones these days?
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Speaker 2: I don't know that.
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Speaker 1: But and look, the only real debate they want to see if these are kind of the the pilot programs and several school districts within these states are going to be using them. But if they work, if it seems as if it's effective, then they are hoping that these will go all across the country.
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Speaker 2: But there are concerns.
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Speaker 1: There have already been some town hall meetings because some parents are concerned that kids could get hurt with the pepper spray. How do they know that it's just going to target the school shooters. So there's just concerns about you know, I would think anytime you've got a robotic type of weaponry to go against a school shooter, could it somehow malfunction and end up hurting or affecting unintended targets.
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Speaker 3: But you say, it's not supposed to be a fatal device. It's not supposed to be a lethal device, right, It's not supposed to.
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Speaker 2: Kill the exactly, it's just yeah, disabled the shooter. Basically, I got a we got.
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Speaker 3: A thirteen year old in public school in New York. First thought of mine was, yeah, I prefer the pepper spray to a bullet. Yeah, it's my first thought of mind. That's exactly not right, I get it. But but yeah, I'm very curious about this.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think it sounds like a really interesting idea. And hey, we need some help out there. So we'll see what happens with that program. But for the final leg of our run, what are the best and worst states to live in? Well? US News has released it's twenty twenty six overall Best State rankings, and states were ranked on eight categories. They are education, healthcare, economy, infrastructure, opportunity, fiscal stability, natural environment, and crime and correction.
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Speaker 3: Okay, natural environment, that might be the only one we scored well in in Arkansas. No, those categories aren't. Aren't the best for US economy. You know, Tyson and Walmart they help do well for US abe hot tacks there.
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Speaker 4: We appreciate it. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So topping the list, the number one best state to live in, according to US News is Utah, followed by South Dakota, Minnesota.
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Speaker 4: Paul, it's nice I hear.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, North Dakota and Nebraska. Well there's a theme there. They're all in, you know, a certain area of the country.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they don't have a lot of big city headaches and a bunch of those cities.
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Speaker 4: Isn't Utah? Haven't they been at the top of the list for what they are.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is a absolutely gorgeous state, there's no question about it.
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Speaker 4: The bottom of the list, though, the very bottom. Is this in the right order here?
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Speaker 2: Yes, that is the.
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Speaker 3: Louisiana bottom Yes, Louisiana. After that Alaska really yeah, after that, you got Mississippi, New Mexico, Michigan. Those are your bottom five. But just outside the bottom five that Ropes thought was worth adding to the list Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted you to see that. But you know what, those are both of our birth states, Arkansas and Michigan. The bottom six right, going to shit since we left apparently, yeah.
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Speaker 2: They need us back.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, they actually had a point based ranking. And by the way, something's way more heavily than others, like education and healthcare. They put way above natural environment, like I think natural environment was the least all that was considered. So yeah, they did want to point out that all those categories weren't equally considered, some had more weight than others. And in addition to the point based system, they also surveyed more than fifty six thousand people across the United States to get an idea of how people spoke of their states. So, and by the way, I just checked, New York came in twenty three, so we were like right smack dab in the middle, which I guess actually was better than I thought.
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Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, we got a big city, we got a lot of problems, but it is for the whole state though. It is for the whole state.
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Speaker 1: That probably helped booy us up because we have a lot of natural beauty in our state certainly. But yeah, just interesting. If you want to check it out. US News has all the rankings to see where your state fell. All right, on this Friday Eve, we have your quote of the day. I thought this was appropriate. We had we had a lot going on in our world yesterday. It was does that stressful?
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Speaker 4: It was just one of them things.
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Speaker 1: This quote spoke to me and for anyone else who might have had an unexpectedly tough day yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I hope this helps. The things that feel overwhelming now will just be stories you tell later.
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Speaker 3: We're going to tell this one later. We're going to tell it as a public service to make sure you never rent to this home.
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Speaker 4: That's what we're gonna do. Yes, this is a story.
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Speaker 3: It's a story we we be telling, and every time we retell it, we won't be laughing.
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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I think given a little space, a little time, we will.
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Speaker 4: Be laughing too soon. Right now, though it's too soon.
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Speaker 1: Just remember, for perspective's sake, this wonderful quote once again, for you. The things that feel overwhelming now will just be stories you tell later. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us.
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Speaker 4: I'm made robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. Run with you soon,
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Hey there everybody.
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Speaker 1: It is Thursday, July thirdy Welcome to Morning Run July thirtieth. I'm starting off great on this Friday Eve. I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 3: And I'm he the Home Suffering Path. It's gonna be a great Thursday at Deathine wasn't expecting that.
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Speaker 2: He We all needed a laugh. You're welcome.
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Speaker 3: We needed it immediately. Thank you for that. What is it I thought you were going to go. I was waiting on thurd Friday Eve to come out. Yeah, you didn't even get that out. We didn't get that far. That's your nickname for Thursday. What do Fridays have a nickname? Freaky Fridays?
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Speaker 4: Maybe? What do we call Mondays?
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Speaker 2: Well, your favorite day of the week is it Manic Monday? We call him Manic Monday. We got a case of the Mondays.
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Speaker 3: You got Taco Tuesday. But Rose just discovered there's something called wiener Wednesday. I didn't know about this. I have never heard it before, but apparently it's the thing wiener Wednesdays.
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Speaker 1: This is all news to me, brought to us by the Mayor of Saint Paul.
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Speaker 3: Yes, we will get into that story and why. Wiener Wednesday has launched an investigation of the mayor of a major American city. But we're going to be making stops all over the place. Yes, we'll make one in Minnesota, but also make a stop in Michigan, Massachusetts at a Senate committee hearing. We'll make a stop at the Federal Reserve in Hollywood as well at the gas pump. And the gas pump Robes is connected to this first story. You need to give an update once again. Another night not so quiet in the war with Iran.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: The US launched a new round of retaliatory air strikes against Iran overnight, Sentcom saying this the strikes are a powerful response to yesterday's attempted Irani and attacks on US forces based in the Middle East.
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Speaker 3: Now, the US struck a missile and drone facilities other size aimed at destroying Iran's maritime capabilities. Meanwhile, peace talks are said, this is the word they're using, Robes. Peace talks are on going, whatever that might mean. But as those talks are ongoing, what is going up right now?
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Speaker 4: Are oil and gas prices?
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Speaker 3: Oil prices surge to actually yesterday went up eight percent, got above ninety dollars a barrel again after President Trump's promise that the US would hit back at Iran last night. Meanwhile, the average cost of a gallon of gas still well above four dollars, sitting at four dollars and nine cents right now.
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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run, we'll keep talking money here, and the Federal Reserve voted yesterday to keep interest rates unchanged, so they're keeping them at the same levels that they've been at since January.
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Speaker 2: It was a nine to three vote.
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Speaker 1: It was notable that three members of the Reserve voted to increase those interest rates, but again they are unchanged for now.
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Speaker 4: We'll see how this goes.
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Speaker 3: This is the Trump's been wanting control of this and wants his people on this board. Rotes I didn't realize how big of a deal is. They vote unanimously all the time, like for decades. You can only find a couple of instances to have one person vote against the rest to have three.
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Speaker 4: This is essentially unheard of.
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Speaker 2: Wow, All right, Next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: Cyclospora cases in the US have now topped eighteen thousand according to the CDC. They finally are catching up here with their accounting of all of this. The confirmed and suspected cases are now in at least forty five states.
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Speaker 2: That number keeps going up too.
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Speaker 3: Yes, in Michigan, of course, the epicenter of all of this, they are reporting ten thousand cases in that state alone. Health officials believe icebery letters from a tailor farms plant in Mexico and served at Taco Bell restaurants in nine states is responsible for the initial big outbreak. But robes, we have clusters and little outbreaks all over the country now, they're saying, and they don't know where this stuff is coming from and what the source of those outbreaks are. So we talking about lettuce. I don't know what the hell. We don't know what the hell to tell you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, still got a text from my daughter yesterday saying can I order this? And it was a big oldhead of iceberg lettuce, And I said, hell no.
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Speaker 4: You kind of pulled the group in the room. You say, look at what she.
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Speaker 2: Just I was like, look at what my daughter just sent me.
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Speaker 1: But look, remember here we have a number of eighteen thousand that is probably double what it actually is being reported as just because people don't go to the doctor necessarily with the symptoms. They aren't tested, they aren't documented, they aren't added to this list of numbers. But yes, microbiologists say you can double or maybe even triple that number in terms of actual cases.
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Speaker 3: And Michigan sitting at ten thousand cases now, Robes, it's worth always noting they average about forty to fifty a year.
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Speaker 2: That's insane. Cyclos case, that is insane. You know what else was insane?
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Speaker 1: That State judiciary hearing yesterday. It was supposed well, sorry, I'm sorry, I skipped ahead to the other committee, and this is the Senate Judiciary Committee. We've got two Senate Committee stories here, and they're both of note. This first one was supposed to vote today on the nomination of Todd Blanche to be Attorney General. That vote has been postponed and the nomination now appears to be in serious trouble.
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Speaker 4: We'll see what happens with this one man.
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Speaker 3: But two Republicans are withholding their support for Blanche unless they get certain assurances.
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Speaker 4: What do they want?
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Speaker 3: We're talking about John Corny of Texas and Tom Tillis of North Carolina. They are taking particular issue Robes with that sweetheart, Irs deal the President struck with the Justice Department, you know.
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Speaker 1: The one that shields him and his entire family from tax audits and created that anti weaponization fund that so many folks were upset about. Well, Cornan and Tillis say they want in writing a pledge that the anti weaponization fund will not be pursued in the future.
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Speaker 3: They have to have his votes to get it out of committee, to even go to a full Senate votd Cornyn, I mean, he said the same revenge, But damn, the President campaigned against him in the primary, and this dude is out of his job. He's got nothing is holding him back.
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Speaker 1: It's a parting gift to the people. Honestly, I wish more politicians. I wish more politicians had nothing to lose or nothing to gain and actually just voted with their conscience. If senators and congress men and women did that, we would be in a much better position. But now everyone needs to get reelected.
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Speaker 4: Something to term limits. Man, there's something to.
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Speaker 1: It, certainly, all right, Now here was the aforementioned insanity. Next up on the Run, Doctor Anthony Fauci refused to answer any and all questions as in, like, what's the color of your shirt.
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Speaker 2: He invoked the Fifth.
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Speaker 1: Amendment more than a hundred times during that state hearing yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Still they kept asking him questions. What they were doing was putting on a show for the cameras. He wasn't going to answer question and they knew it. But they were just trying to get this on record, get it recorded, get themselves on cable news last night, and sure enough it worked. But they were scolding him. Robes, this is supposed to be about the origins of the COVID vaccine. There are two theories out there. Nobody can prove ropes. There is no consensus. Was it created in a lab, there was an accidental leak, or did it happen naturally in bats, transferred to other animals and then found its way into humans. People don't know. But this would have been a worthy conversation to have. But this was seen as nothing but grand standing, an attempt to get him to say anything, Robes under oath that they could say maybe ain't true, and then they could haul him off to jail.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so he took the Fifth more than a hundred times.
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Speaker 1: But now Senator Rand Paul is threatening to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress, and they're actually holding a vote on that next week. They're trying to find a way to hold him accountable, to punish him for not answering questions.
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Speaker 3: What was the language obstructing a congressional investigation. They're suggesting that maybe by not answering he's doing that. Looks like that's the direction they're going to go. Let's turn now to what we were talking about. Off the top, Robes, We had no idea there was a such thing as weener Wednesday. So the mayor of Saint Paul is under investigation for sexual harassment. The allegations against the first female mayor of that city are coming from the very male police chief.
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Speaker 1: Robes all right, and this woman's name is Kaylee. Kaylee Her has been serving as mayor just since January. But in a letter dated April first, that is of note, not an April Fool's Day letter, police Chief Axel Henry said he was filing a formal complaint against the mayor. She's accused of sending inappropriate messages to him and other members of the police department.
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Speaker 2: What were those messages, Babe?
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Speaker 3: It included a meme, right, and I had never heard of this or seen it before.
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Speaker 4: Let me get the exact language.
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Speaker 3: I have to scroll down to the bottom where I was putting together the other note because I want to get the language here right Robes. The message said this quote happy wiener Wednesday, wish I was having. Then it had a hot dog emoji with you all today, and then it had an image, and with the image it said this when she wraps you up in her blanket after you gave her a good weianering. Now this is the mayor of Saint Paul sent this and the image was redacted Robes in the letter, so I don't know exactly what was supposed to show, but it looked like something was swaddled. Well said when you get wrapped after giving somebody a good.
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Speaker 2: Weaning, And I did.
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Speaker 1: I did see that that In one of the articles they were explaining that weianering is a.
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Speaker 2: Verb that references having sex.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we pathetical, obviously yes, but I was laughing that the article felt they needed.
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Speaker 2: To explain what weianering.
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Speaker 3: Actually he meant so, but the mayor is acknowledged this stuff ropes and essentially saying these were poor attempts at humor that fell short of her standard it sounds like she's acknowledging, so you sent this stuff and maybe it was a joke that wasn't taking the right way at.
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Speaker 1: This point though, like with not safe for work, bemes everywhere, I'm just curious how a woman who is and she's a she's a grown woman, she's an older woman. Oh yeah, how she doesn't understand that that's not appropriate. That blows my mind that people still don't get that you can't send messages like that to folks.
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Speaker 4: This, I mean that things could have been worse. This is not okay.
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Speaker 3: I suppose that if anybody was offended by it, that's fine, But they say ropes. This wasn't just the police chief that was sended that God had several members and when he realized it was going around other folks who wanted to stop.
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Speaker 4: And this is why he's getting involved.
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Speaker 3: And now the city has hired an outside law firm to investigate.
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Speaker 2: But yes, Weiener Gabe, Wow, we've already had one of those.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know this is this is yes, this is Minneapolis' version is just two yeah, wienergate two.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, things.
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Speaker 1: Got really emotional in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial yesterday.
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Speaker 2: This is going on in Massachusetts.
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Speaker 1: The judge in the case actually had to call for a recess. Lindsay Clancy is on trial for strangling her three young children. She has claimed mental illness and postpartum psychosis are to blame for her actions. So she's pleaded not guilty, even though she's fully admitted to killing her three children.
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Speaker 3: And the first witness we've seen in the case has been her ex husband. He's been on the stand for the first two days of full testimony. He wrapped his testimony yesterday, Bobara counting the day he found his children dead and robes. We didn't hear it because there is a rule this stuff isn't supposed to be released to the public. But they did play in the courtroom the nine to one one call. They say, this go seven plus minutes. But it's when he got to the house, find his wife having jumped out the window, attempt at suicide, and then he goes looking for the children, and that whole scenario ropes plays out in a nine to one one call.
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Speaker 4: After that, the judge we heard him.
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Speaker 3: He had to say something to the jury and just they had to all take a beat.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and look, Lindsay Clancy could be seeing sobbing. She was crying uncontrollably at the devent's table when this nine one one call was played out in court. She even had turned her head because the jurors also saw those bands that she used to strangle her children, those exercise bands, and so yes. The judge acknowledged that some jurors who became visibly upset at the hearing. He said, you know, he was trying to explain to them, there's a difference between an emotional reaction and evidence you have to consider. And it's difficult, but you have to separate the two. And the audio was not released publicly because Patrick himself, Patrick Clancy, actually put a file to petition before the actual trial began, saying he didn't want his children's clothing, he didn't want autopsy photos, he didn't want the nine one one call broadcast to the public.
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Speaker 2: And that's understandable.
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Speaker 3: The description they this is the guy, folks, that he finds his wife and doesn't know where his kids are. He's on the phone with nine one one the whole time you hear him. He goes downstairs. When this man discovers three babies with bands around their neck and on cont you hear it, ye, he's screaming.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's excruciating. Apparently.
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Speaker 3: So oh that was yesterday. In court resumes today, they're back in sessions.
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Speaker 1: They're back in session today, yes, and then next up on the run, Oscar winner Jared Leto strongly denying sexual misconduct allegations being made against him by multiple women, and some of them say they were teenagers when the alleged sexual abuse happened. Ten women have come forward as part of a BBC documentary Jared Leto, Hollywood's Dark Secret. He was actually released yesterday, and four of those women claim they were in their teens when they had encounters with Leto, including one who said she was seventeen and Leto was thirty four when they had sex, and in California she is under the age of consent that would be statutory rape.
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Speaker 2: However, this happened in.
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Speaker 1: Twenty sixteen, I believe, and it wasn't until twenty seventeen that California changed its laws, where at least it retroactively went back to twenty seventeen, meaning there was no statute of limitation anything that happened before then.
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Speaker 2: It was I think six years is the statute of limentation.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like from the allegations here, all of them are outside that when they don't have any avenue to go to criminally correct the allegations. Now, but someone else says she was sixteen when she was groomed by Leto sent her at sexually explicit messages. This was young lady who said she was actually asked to sign non disclosure agreements she never did do, but says she was sixteen at the time.
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Speaker 1: Woo, all right, and Leto did have a response to all of these new allegations. He said, shortly and substinctly, I have never sexually assaulted anyone in my entire life. These claims are absolutely and categorically false.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Friday Eve morning run. When we come back, schools have come up with a new high tech way to possibly stop school shootings, and we got the new list of the best and worst states to live in.
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Speaker 4: My home state got some work to do.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to your Thursday or Friday Eve as we like to call it, morning run.
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Speaker 2: And next up on the run.
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Speaker 1: This is really an interesting, fascinating stories several schools across three states are employing a new tactic to stop a school shooter within seconds, fast moving drones that are equipped with pepper spray and strobe lights and alarms that can even ram a shooter at six steve miles per hour.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, these are schools in Colorado, Florida, and Georgia. Starting this fall, they're going to be the first to add the drones. The developers say can locate an active shooter in a matter of seconds, within fifteen seconds. They say the drones would also be able to enter rooms ahead of police officers. Obviously, that could save lives. Officers are shot nearly half of all mass shootings. The cost of these robes, it seems it's a little high. But still, if they can get that cost down, why wouldn't everybody.
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Speaker 4: Have this in the school?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the cost is twenty thousand dollars a year.
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Speaker 1: But some I appreciated this perspective. If you hire a school security officer, which many of these schools do, to try and combat any potential would be school shooter, they say that twenty thousand dollars a year is a lot less than hiring a security officer.
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Speaker 3: To have both no way they're going to get rid of a live officer and a school, right, And just say, we've worked with drones a lot over the time, and I know it's expensive with the usually the drone operator. But how much are drones these days?
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Speaker 2: I don't know that.
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Speaker 1: But and look, the only real debate they want to see if these are kind of the the pilot programs and several school districts within these states are going to be using them. But if they work, if it seems as if it's effective, then they are hoping that these will go all across the country.
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Speaker 2: But there are concerns.
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Speaker 1: There have already been some town hall meetings because some parents are concerned that kids could get hurt with the pepper spray. How do they know that it's just going to target the school shooters. So there's just concerns about you know, I would think anytime you've got a robotic type of weaponry to go against a school shooter, could it somehow malfunction and end up hurting or affecting unintended targets.
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Speaker 3: But you say, it's not supposed to be a fatal device. It's not supposed to be a lethal device, right, It's not supposed to.
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Speaker 2: Kill the exactly, it's just yeah, disabled the shooter. Basically, I got a we got.
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Speaker 3: A thirteen year old in public school in New York. First thought of mine was, yeah, I prefer the pepper spray to a bullet. Yeah, it's my first thought of mind. That's exactly not right, I get it. But but yeah, I'm very curious about this.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think it sounds like a really interesting idea. And hey, we need some help out there. So we'll see what happens with that program. But for the final leg of our run, what are the best and worst states to live in? Well? US News has released it's twenty twenty six overall Best State rankings, and states were ranked on eight categories. They are education, healthcare, economy, infrastructure, opportunity, fiscal stability, natural environment, and crime and correction.
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Speaker 3: Okay, natural environment, that might be the only one we scored well in in Arkansas. No, those categories aren't. Aren't the best for US economy. You know, Tyson and Walmart they help do well for US abe hot tacks there.
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Speaker 4: We appreciate it. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So topping the list, the number one best state to live in, according to US News is Utah, followed by South Dakota, Minnesota.
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Speaker 4: Paul, it's nice I hear.
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, North Dakota and Nebraska. Well there's a theme there. They're all in, you know, a certain area of the country.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and they don't have a lot of big city headaches and a bunch of those cities.
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Speaker 4: Isn't Utah? Haven't they been at the top of the list for what they are.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is a absolutely gorgeous state, there's no question about it.
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Speaker 4: The bottom of the list, though, the very bottom. Is this in the right order here?
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Speaker 2: Yes, that is the.
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Speaker 3: Louisiana bottom Yes, Louisiana. After that Alaska really yeah, after that, you got Mississippi, New Mexico, Michigan. Those are your bottom five. But just outside the bottom five that Ropes thought was worth adding to the list Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted you to see that. But you know what, those are both of our birth states, Arkansas and Michigan. The bottom six right, going to shit since we left apparently, yeah.
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Speaker 2: They need us back.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, they actually had a point based ranking. And by the way, something's way more heavily than others, like education and healthcare. They put way above natural environment, like I think natural environment was the least all that was considered. So yeah, they did want to point out that all those categories weren't equally considered, some had more weight than others. And in addition to the point based system, they also surveyed more than fifty six thousand people across the United States to get an idea of how people spoke of their states. So, and by the way, I just checked, New York came in twenty three, so we were like right smack dab in the middle, which I guess actually was better than I thought.
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Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, we got a big city, we got a lot of problems, but it is for the whole state though. It is for the whole state.
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Speaker 1: That probably helped booy us up because we have a lot of natural beauty in our state certainly. But yeah, just interesting. If you want to check it out. US News has all the rankings to see where your state fell. All right, on this Friday Eve, we have your quote of the day. I thought this was appropriate. We had we had a lot going on in our world yesterday. It was does that stressful?
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Speaker 4: It was just one of them things.
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Speaker 1: This quote spoke to me and for anyone else who might have had an unexpectedly tough day yesterday.
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Speaker 2: I hope this helps. The things that feel overwhelming now will just be stories you tell later.
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Speaker 3: We're going to tell this one later. We're going to tell it as a public service to make sure you never rent to this home.
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Speaker 4: That's what we're gonna do. Yes, this is a story.
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Speaker 3: It's a story we we be telling, and every time we retell it, we won't be laughing.
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Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I think given a little space, a little time, we will.
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Speaker 4: Be laughing too soon. Right now, though it's too soon.
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Speaker 1: Just remember, for perspective's sake, this wonderful quote once again, for you. The things that feel overwhelming now will just be stories you tell later. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us.
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Speaker 4: I'm made robots and I'm TJ. Holmes. Run with you soon,