Oct. 22, 2026
(Thursday) Morning Run: Elderly Killer, VP Says “Stop Whining,” Legal Loss for Clancy, Arrest in NY Road Rage Killing, FL Mayor Arrested, Body Cam Footage in MS, Trump Hitting Record Lows, NFLer Dismissed Over Gun, Positive Popedate & 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, October 22nd. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. If you notice, she was a little dragging a little there. She was slowing things down as she was talking about the date. She was literally typing in the date as we were starting here.
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Speaker 2: It's the thing that I need to know when I first begin Morning Run, and oftentimes it's a scramble because... I don't know what the date is.
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Speaker 1: You can't keep the date straight. This happens is the most important thing to do every day. You see me freak out in all of our episodes, right? We should tape it sometime and let people see. But in all of our podcast episodes, I start them. I say, welcome. It is, oh, what day is it?
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Speaker 2: And I.
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Speaker 1: Calling the fool, freak out.
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Speaker 2: It's funny. We're so focused on getting the stories right and getting everything else together that the most obvious thing to know, we forget.
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Speaker 1: We forget. So today is October 22nd. Hello to you all. We are creeping ever so close to Halloween. Hope you're enjoying your Halloween movie fest. Some people aren't horror movie fans, but this is at least one month. People will dab.
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Speaker 2: Yes, every weekend we're actually giving, we focused it in genres, or I should say sub-genres of horror movies. So every weekend leading up to Halloween. So I guess this is the last weekend. But if you want to go through our feed and check back.
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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday over the past two weekends, we have wonderful horror movie recommendations that are off the beaten path. Not the main big time or mainstream ones, but some gems that maybe you never heard of. So trust us, you'll like them.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we're very excited about it. I think Saturday we're focused on sci-fi horror. And I think this is my favorite one so far because we really have some deep cuts that are so good that we're going to give you on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: All right. But on this Thursday, this one is going to take us to Rome, to Toombs County, Georgia, to Senatobia, Mississippi, to Cape Cod, to Nashville, to Cincinnati. To Kissimmee, Florida. We need to look up what that story was years ago. For whatever reason, I always knew how to spell this because there was some big story happening, and I could always spell K-I-S-S-I. It says I-M-M-E-E. It's two of everything. Two S's. Two S's, two M's, two E's. I don't know why I always remember that.
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Speaker 2: You were thinking maybe it was from Hanging Chads?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: All the way back from 2001?
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Speaker 1: There's some big story in why I know Kissimmee, Florida. But anyway.
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Speaker 2: I was thinking maybe it was Walt Disney World.
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Speaker 1: No, it wasn't there for sure.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was near there. We're going to make a stop there. As well for a story they are not proud that's coming out of there right now. But we do need to start actually with two stories here off the top rope, two significant updates to two very big stories that the country has been watching for months now.
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Speaker 2: That's right. We have a major update on the Lindsay Clancy case. The judge in that case has denied the defense's request. to question the holdout juror. Remember, the juror, Michael Desronville, was the only juror who wanted to convict Clancy for the murders of her three kids. That hung jury ended 11 to 1, and the trial ended in a mistrial after nearly 40 hours of deliberations.
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Speaker 1: So you'll remember the defense wanted the judge to investigate the juror, Desronville, for possibly using his cell phone during deliberations, as well as possible discrepancies on his jury questionnaire. The judge said no to all of that. We weren't expecting to get these answers until November 2nd when they have another hearing in the case, but he went ahead and put this out there already. There will not be a hearing. Desromble, this is done, at least the juror part of it. So now they got some other things to work out, including we might get a possible trial date, new trial date.
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Speaker 2: All right. There's a lot on the line there for Lindsay Clancy coming up, but next up on the run, we are getting our first look at that video footage of of the police shooting of one-year-old Cohen Wiley. Earlier this week, you may remember the Mississippi Attorney General announced that the officer was justified when he fired on a vehicle in Senatobia Walmart parking lot back in June.
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Speaker 1: Police were responding to a shoplifting call at the Walmart that chased Cohen's mom and her friend to the car. Now, Robes, as the story was described, I didn't realize they were all, the officers, appeared to be inside the Walmart. And they all came running out. So they gave chase to this family. This newly released body cam video and surveillance video, it didn't appear, Robes. It came from, it was an official release from the prosecutor's office or the police. Somebody got their hands on it, but they got all of it. And, Robes, it tells a story.
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Speaker 2: It does. Yes. As you pointed out, they're all there at the self-checkout, which is where even the mom and the friends said they were at the self-checkout. And then it appears someone comes in to tell the police they're out in the parking lot. You saw that, right? So they're kind of pointing officers in the right direction. And then you see five officers run into the parking lot, and the car is backing out quickly. And you can hear the officers telling the car to stop, and they all have their guns drawn.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and when she, whoever was driving, the friend was driving and backs out, hits another car. This was a rushed, and you look at it, you think there's a getaway going on.
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Speaker 2: There's a getaway.
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Speaker 1: Period. And absolutely drives towards an officer to the point he puts his hand, I mean, to avoid the vehicle. It's that close. It looked like the car was coming at him. This tells a much different story than I guess has been out there. Robes, this is why. Body cam video, this stuff is so important. This video doesn't lie.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't lie. And look, it's actually shocking to me that... the district attorney's office wouldn't have released this immediately because it would have put all of this controversy to rest because look, both things were true. We saw in Ben Crump's press conference that the bullet was entered more from the side of the vehicle, which made it seem like the officers fired on a vehicle that had already passed him. That makes sense. But when you see how it happened, yes, it was towards the side, but it was happening so fast that And the vehicle was coming towards him. So, look, just to that point, I am so shocked that they wouldn't have released this footage earlier.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they had a reason with the investigation, wanted to keep the integrity. Who knows? But this does tell a different story. Where this whole case goes now, we don't know. But the statement, the brief one from the attorney general this week said that, quote, she found the use of force justified. Cohen's mother and friend have maintained that they were not shoplifters.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, Vice President J.D. Vance has chimed in on that controversial and widely condemned attack at in the Ohio governor's race. His message was basically stop whining.
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Speaker 1: I was a little surprised at this. But yes, the vice president was on the campaign trail. He was in Cincinnati yesterday when as far as applauding. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, he told a crowd, quote, the media and the Democrats of the state of Iowa are obsessed because guess what? Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar. I didn't see anything in his messages that acknowledged the background and what the whole controversy is about. He continued saying, my message, ladies and gentlemen, is very simple. Whatever you think about any of the TV advertisements, focus on the substance and focus on the facts.
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Speaker 2: That's so unfair. That is so unfair. You know, we're going to put out this incendiary, disgusting video, but don't pay attention to that. Pay attention to the facts. What is... To me, that is really disingenuous and really difficult to process. Later, Vance told reporters, I have to admit that I'm a little disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America. The ad, which has so far only appeared online, featured Acton's birth mother. And in it, she calls Acton a liar who needs to seek help. Acton has been estranged from that very birth mother since she was 12. And yes, why was she estranged from her birth mother? Because her birth mother's husband was arrested and charged with raping Acton. Acton's birth mother and stepfather left the area. They fled the area. and never showed up to face charges. And Acton and her brother were both removed from her mother's home because of the abuse. And she had not seen or spoken to her mother since she faced her and her stepfather in a courtroom in 1978. I just want to say that J.D. Vance knows better.
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Speaker 1: He's a sharp dude. He's a smart guy, but he does a party line. It's just I don't know. Everything, decency, common sense, even intelligence. Politics trumps it all when it comes to a midterm and elections.
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Speaker 2: It's really sad.
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Speaker 1: He knows better.
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Speaker 2: He does know better.
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Speaker 1: We know he does.
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Speaker 2: He's a Catholic. He's a father.
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Speaker 1: He knows. Come on. I wonder how much capital he is using up for 2028 right now, because this is, some would argue, a sinking ship in the midterms, at least. And he's going out there and support him. That's tough. We'll see. We'll see. But that was his response. And the ad of Ramaswamy continues to double and triple and quadruple down on it, and they're putting $ 4 million to get it on TV.
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Speaker 2: All right. Not only did we do nothing wrong, we're going to expand its reach. Next up on the run, President Trump's approval ratings are in the dumps right now, less than two weeks before the midterms.
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Speaker 1: I was putting it kindly. I was trying to find the right way to put it.
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Speaker 2: He is literally at record lows in two weeks. new polls. 34%, according to the New York Times, CNN University poll, and at 32%, according to the CNN SSRS polls.
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Speaker 1: Those are bad numbers. Both of those are lowest ever for him. And the New York Times is reporting that the 34% number he had is the lowest of any president heading into a midterm since Truman in 1946.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, this is a This is a tough story. A retired NYPD detective has been charged with murder in a road rage incident on an iconic New York bridge. Police say Victor Romero shot Karan Irvine on the George Washington Bridge yesterday. What happened?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, police here say that Irvine's car swerved into Romero's lane. And surveillance video they have then shows Romero speeding to catch up to Irvine, passing him, firing once into his vehicle. Irvine was hit in the shoulder, crashed in the median, later died at the hospital. They do say Robes' 62-year-old Romero voluntarily came in for questioning after police were able to track him down based on the registration of the Range Rover that he was driving.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have surveillance cameras over there. I just can't imagine you're that upset. Also, you're a police officer, a retired police officer, but still you've spent your life in service and protecting others.
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Speaker 1: We've seen it.
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Speaker 2: Someone pisses you off on a bridge, and then you endanger the lives of everyone who's driving because Irvine... Fired one shot. Oh, my God. Irvine then crashes, and this is terrible. And by the way, Irvine is a husband.
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Speaker 2: A father, he's a family man. Like, this is awful.
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Speaker 1: That story is take a beat, folks. You get that mad. Somebody swerved into your lane. What was going on with him? It wasn't about that. It was about what else is going on in his life that you get that mad.
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Speaker 2: Irvine's a con ed worker. Wasn't he driving home from work? It's just awful to think. I mean, that's just, you know, anytime people get upset, even honk their horn, it's just... Don't react. You just don't know who's behind the wheel and what they may have in their vehicle.
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Speaker 1: I said to you and the girls all the time, always assume that person is crazier and will go farther than you will. So just take a beat, folks. Continuing on the run here now, let's head down to Florida, where a mayor there was arrested yesterday on accusations of stealing COVID money. This is Kissimmee, Florida, Mayor Jackie Espinoza. Charged with grand theft and fraud for allegedly robes, taking $ 50, 000 from a COVID-19 business relief fund that her own office helped set up. Yeah. Innocent until proven guilty. All right.
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Speaker 2: According to prosecutors, three businesses owned and operated by Espinoza or her immediate family members received $ 50, 000 from the grant program. Espinoza's attorney says she maintains her innocence and will challenge the charges in court She's served as mayor since 2024, and her term goes until 2028. So we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: The law down there allows an arrested or indicted, whatever, mayor to continue to serve. So she's still going to be mayor of the town. The prosecutors say this is so clear and so cut and dry. She says she's innocent. But they say the day the program went active, her family were the first ones to sign up for it on day one.
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Speaker 2: Did they say what they spent the money on?
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Speaker 1: No, not at all.
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Speaker 2: I need to know. All right, next up on the run, an elderly woman has been arrested in Georgia for allegedly shooting and killing her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. The suspect is 76-year-old Grace Edge.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about this one later.
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Speaker 2: My goodness. Police got a 911 call after a shooting on Monday afternoon in Toombs County. It's in the southeast part of the state. Police say she shot her ex-husband, who is 75-year-old Wallace Truman Edge... and his 40-year-old girlfriend, Pamela Cook, and both of them died. Another woman was also shot, but her injuries are described as non-life-threatening. Edge has been charged with murder and aggravated assault. A 76-year-old woman shooting her 75-year-old ex-husband and his 40-year-old girlfriend.
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Speaker 1: This is so incredibly rare that you have a murder suspect this age. It is so rare in this country. Robes, we're going to get in and we're going to talk about this story a little more, including, yes, elderly offenders, murderers in this country. Just how rare something like this is. And, Robes, the situation here in the background, the backstory. Robes, he killed him. They've been divorced for 10 years, according to police.
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Speaker 2: What?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: This wasn't a recent thing. Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: There's so much to this story. Look for this one on the feed in a little bit. But on this morning run, stay here when we come back. A really, really, really good looking guy, at least according to him. is going to be in court today facing some really, really, really serious charges. Also coming up, an NFL player brought a gun to the facility. That's a major no-no. He's now an ex-NFL player. And we got a Pope date.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to your... Oh, I haven't said it yet. Friday Eve Morning Run. The look-smaxing influencer known as Clavicular, scheduled to be arraigned on rape charges today in Massachusetts. His actual name is Braden Peters, and he's accused of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family home in Cape Cod in May of last year while his mom and grandma were in the house. And Peters is known for promoting his sometimes extreme measures to maximize his beauty. We're talking breaking bones to try and reshape his face, that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: What's the other stuff? Injections and something else. Weird stuff they do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all sorts of strange. You can actually go to looks maxing camps to try and, yeah, there's all of these bizarre ways to change the way you look. And it's all about getting women, right?
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Speaker 1: Why don't we just do what women do and just take the surgical route?
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Speaker 2: It feels like it'd be less painful, but maybe it's cheaper to do it yourself.
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Speaker 1: Injection here. Tighten this up a little bit there. Change the jawline a little bit there.
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Speaker 2: It's gross.
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Speaker 1: Okay, he's denying all the charges against him. He's claiming, yes, that the sex was consensual. Continuing on the run here now. Kind of a still bizarre and unfortunate story. Could have gotten worse, I suppose, though, but an NFL player brought a gun to his team's practice facility, and that player has now been dismissed from the team. Robes, the original incident took place last Thursday, and yeah, this was in Nashville.
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Speaker 2: The Tennessee Titans say defensive lineman Jordan Elliott went to his car in the player parking lot to retrieve a gun after an altercation with a teammate. It's unclear right now how that incident escalated to a point that Elliott needed to go get his gun, but the team went on to say that it was a call for help more than a criminal act.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Well, yeah, that was, it's bizarre. And everybody's talking about this is, this is a mental health issue and crisis. They said, guys go at it in practice all the time. This was run of the mill, no big deal, but it got to a point where they told him to take a beat and get out of practice, step off. And he goes out to the, to the parking lot to get a gun. And they said another teammate saw him and just intervened and said, yo, man, what are you doing? But still, that was enough. The league has a strict firearm policy.
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Speaker 2: Obviously.
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Speaker 1: Team personnel. You're not allowed to bring a gun anywhere at a league facility, anywhere that league activity is going on. You're not allowed to have a gun. But he is a seven-year pro, Rose. He's played in every game. He is a significant player. And just what happens to him now, what happens next.
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Speaker 2: But that's a liability. And thank God someone saw what he was doing and stopped him. Who knows? If it was a mental health break, it's frightening to think about what could have happened.
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Speaker 1: We hear that. And the thing that I take a pause on, Robes, the way they have come out and spoken about how wonderful of a guy he is, this makes no sense.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Great husband, great father. I mean, they are going over the top and effusive in their praise of this is a good man. And we don't know what happened.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We'll hear more about that.
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Speaker 2: Okay. All right. Next up on the run, and actually the final leg of our run, we'll end on a positive note.
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Speaker 1: This is great.
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Speaker 2: This is actually so wonderful because we were all waiting to hear what may be next for Pope Leo. Well, we have an update, and it's a good one. The Vatican says the pontiff will need no further treatment for his diagnosed lung cancer. That's pretty remarkable. And that means it didn't spread.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that means they went in there and they got it and it's done. So yeah, 71-year-old had those nodules removed from his lung last week. Testing then confirmed that it was cancer. But follow-up testing, they say, confirmed that the disease was localized. As you said, their robes and their words, quote, no further treatment is necessary. What will this mean for follow-ups and something to keep an eye on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he'll have to get blood tests, I'm sure, and maybe even get scans. Like they'll do a PET scan maybe. Just lung cancer is typically and can be an aggressive form. He had the most common and maybe they did catch it early enough. The good news is I'm sure they tested his lymph nodes. And I mean, that's essentially what you do initially to see if it has spread beyond the lungs. And look, one of the places that metastasized cancers go to that can eventually become fatal is the lungs or the brain. So if it was localized and they were able to remove it all, that's fantastic.
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Speaker 1: He's out there already. He's already had an audience with people. He's been out again. It's cool. Same smile. That dude is... I'm liking this guy.
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Speaker 2: I do too. All right. And we will end with our quote of the day on this Friday Eve. Life does not get better when bad things stop. It gets better when you stop giving bad things more time than they earn.
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Speaker 1: Boom. Say it again, Rob. Say it again. Good one today. You nailed it. You should have saved it for Friday. This is such a good one.
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Speaker 2: Life does not get better when bad things stop. It gets better when you stop giving bad things more time than they earned.
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Speaker 1: It is that simple as anything. Bad things, quote unquote bad things, they're happening all the time. It's happening right now. My foot hurts. The AC was on the fritz. All kinds, everything bad. Stuff bad. And that's just little stuff around the house. Big things happen to you. And Robes is just a part Yeah, I think.
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Speaker 2: You just have to say, all right, plenty of things are going to go wrong today, but I am not going to give it any more time than it deserves. Period. All right, and with that, everyone, we hope you have a wonderful day, and we always appreciate you running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run 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, October 22nd. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. If you notice, she was a little dragging a little there. She was slowing things down as she was talking about the date. She was literally typing in the date as we were starting here.
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Speaker 2: It's the thing that I need to know when I first begin Morning Run, and oftentimes it's a scramble because... I don't know what the date is.
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Speaker 1: You can't keep the date straight. This happens is the most important thing to do every day. You see me freak out in all of our episodes, right? We should tape it sometime and let people see. But in all of our podcast episodes, I start them. I say, welcome. It is, oh, what day is it?
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Speaker 2: And I.
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Speaker 1: Calling the fool, freak out.
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Speaker 2: It's funny. We're so focused on getting the stories right and getting everything else together that the most obvious thing to know, we forget.
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Speaker 1: We forget. So today is October 22nd. Hello to you all. We are creeping ever so close to Halloween. Hope you're enjoying your Halloween movie fest. Some people aren't horror movie fans, but this is at least one month. People will dab.
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Speaker 2: Yes, every weekend we're actually giving, we focused it in genres, or I should say sub-genres of horror movies. So every weekend leading up to Halloween. So I guess this is the last weekend. But if you want to go through our feed and check back.
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Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday over the past two weekends, we have wonderful horror movie recommendations that are off the beaten path. Not the main big time or mainstream ones, but some gems that maybe you never heard of. So trust us, you'll like them.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we're very excited about it. I think Saturday we're focused on sci-fi horror. And I think this is my favorite one so far because we really have some deep cuts that are so good that we're going to give you on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: All right. But on this Thursday, this one is going to take us to Rome, to Toombs County, Georgia, to Senatobia, Mississippi, to Cape Cod, to Nashville, to Cincinnati. To Kissimmee, Florida. We need to look up what that story was years ago. For whatever reason, I always knew how to spell this because there was some big story happening, and I could always spell K-I-S-S-I. It says I-M-M-E-E. It's two of everything. Two S's. Two S's, two M's, two E's. I don't know why I always remember that.
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Speaker 2: You were thinking maybe it was from Hanging Chads?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: All the way back from 2001?
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Speaker 1: There's some big story in why I know Kissimmee, Florida. But anyway.
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Speaker 2: I was thinking maybe it was Walt Disney World.
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Speaker 1: No, it wasn't there for sure.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was near there. We're going to make a stop there. As well for a story they are not proud that's coming out of there right now. But we do need to start actually with two stories here off the top rope, two significant updates to two very big stories that the country has been watching for months now.
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Speaker 2: That's right. We have a major update on the Lindsay Clancy case. The judge in that case has denied the defense's request. to question the holdout juror. Remember, the juror, Michael Desronville, was the only juror who wanted to convict Clancy for the murders of her three kids. That hung jury ended 11 to 1, and the trial ended in a mistrial after nearly 40 hours of deliberations.
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Speaker 1: So you'll remember the defense wanted the judge to investigate the juror, Desronville, for possibly using his cell phone during deliberations, as well as possible discrepancies on his jury questionnaire. The judge said no to all of that. We weren't expecting to get these answers until November 2nd when they have another hearing in the case, but he went ahead and put this out there already. There will not be a hearing. Desromble, this is done, at least the juror part of it. So now they got some other things to work out, including we might get a possible trial date, new trial date.
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Speaker 2: All right. There's a lot on the line there for Lindsay Clancy coming up, but next up on the run, we are getting our first look at that video footage of of the police shooting of one-year-old Cohen Wiley. Earlier this week, you may remember the Mississippi Attorney General announced that the officer was justified when he fired on a vehicle in Senatobia Walmart parking lot back in June.
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Speaker 1: Police were responding to a shoplifting call at the Walmart that chased Cohen's mom and her friend to the car. Now, Robes, as the story was described, I didn't realize they were all, the officers, appeared to be inside the Walmart. And they all came running out. So they gave chase to this family. This newly released body cam video and surveillance video, it didn't appear, Robes. It came from, it was an official release from the prosecutor's office or the police. Somebody got their hands on it, but they got all of it. And, Robes, it tells a story.
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Speaker 2: It does. Yes. As you pointed out, they're all there at the self-checkout, which is where even the mom and the friends said they were at the self-checkout. And then it appears someone comes in to tell the police they're out in the parking lot. You saw that, right? So they're kind of pointing officers in the right direction. And then you see five officers run into the parking lot, and the car is backing out quickly. And you can hear the officers telling the car to stop, and they all have their guns drawn.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and when she, whoever was driving, the friend was driving and backs out, hits another car. This was a rushed, and you look at it, you think there's a getaway going on.
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Speaker 2: There's a getaway.
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Speaker 1: Period. And absolutely drives towards an officer to the point he puts his hand, I mean, to avoid the vehicle. It's that close. It looked like the car was coming at him. This tells a much different story than I guess has been out there. Robes, this is why. Body cam video, this stuff is so important. This video doesn't lie.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't lie. And look, it's actually shocking to me that... the district attorney's office wouldn't have released this immediately because it would have put all of this controversy to rest because look, both things were true. We saw in Ben Crump's press conference that the bullet was entered more from the side of the vehicle, which made it seem like the officers fired on a vehicle that had already passed him. That makes sense. But when you see how it happened, yes, it was towards the side, but it was happening so fast that And the vehicle was coming towards him. So, look, just to that point, I am so shocked that they wouldn't have released this footage earlier.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they had a reason with the investigation, wanted to keep the integrity. Who knows? But this does tell a different story. Where this whole case goes now, we don't know. But the statement, the brief one from the attorney general this week said that, quote, she found the use of force justified. Cohen's mother and friend have maintained that they were not shoplifters.
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Speaker 2: All right. Next up on the run, Vice President J.D. Vance has chimed in on that controversial and widely condemned attack at in the Ohio governor's race. His message was basically stop whining.
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Speaker 1: I was a little surprised at this. But yes, the vice president was on the campaign trail. He was in Cincinnati yesterday when as far as applauding. Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, he told a crowd, quote, the media and the Democrats of the state of Iowa are obsessed because guess what? Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial which calls it like it is and calls Amy Acton a liar. I didn't see anything in his messages that acknowledged the background and what the whole controversy is about. He continued saying, my message, ladies and gentlemen, is very simple. Whatever you think about any of the TV advertisements, focus on the substance and focus on the facts.
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Speaker 2: That's so unfair. That is so unfair. You know, we're going to put out this incendiary, disgusting video, but don't pay attention to that. Pay attention to the facts. What is... To me, that is really disingenuous and really difficult to process. Later, Vance told reporters, I have to admit that I'm a little disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America. The ad, which has so far only appeared online, featured Acton's birth mother. And in it, she calls Acton a liar who needs to seek help. Acton has been estranged from that very birth mother since she was 12. And yes, why was she estranged from her birth mother? Because her birth mother's husband was arrested and charged with raping Acton. Acton's birth mother and stepfather left the area. They fled the area. and never showed up to face charges. And Acton and her brother were both removed from her mother's home because of the abuse. And she had not seen or spoken to her mother since she faced her and her stepfather in a courtroom in 1978. I just want to say that J.D. Vance knows better.
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Speaker 1: He's a sharp dude. He's a smart guy, but he does a party line. It's just I don't know. Everything, decency, common sense, even intelligence. Politics trumps it all when it comes to a midterm and elections.
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Speaker 2: It's really sad.
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Speaker 1: He knows better.
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Speaker 2: He does know better.
00:09:17
Speaker 1: We know he does.
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Speaker 2: He's a Catholic. He's a father.
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Speaker 1: He knows. Come on. I wonder how much capital he is using up for 2028 right now, because this is, some would argue, a sinking ship in the midterms, at least. And he's going out there and support him. That's tough. We'll see. We'll see. But that was his response. And the ad of Ramaswamy continues to double and triple and quadruple down on it, and they're putting $ 4 million to get it on TV.
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Speaker 2: All right. Not only did we do nothing wrong, we're going to expand its reach. Next up on the run, President Trump's approval ratings are in the dumps right now, less than two weeks before the midterms.
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Speaker 1: I was putting it kindly. I was trying to find the right way to put it.
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Speaker 2: He is literally at record lows in two weeks. new polls. 34%, according to the New York Times, CNN University poll, and at 32%, according to the CNN SSRS polls.
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Speaker 1: Those are bad numbers. Both of those are lowest ever for him. And the New York Times is reporting that the 34% number he had is the lowest of any president heading into a midterm since Truman in 1946.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, this is a This is a tough story. A retired NYPD detective has been charged with murder in a road rage incident on an iconic New York bridge. Police say Victor Romero shot Karan Irvine on the George Washington Bridge yesterday. What happened?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, police here say that Irvine's car swerved into Romero's lane. And surveillance video they have then shows Romero speeding to catch up to Irvine, passing him, firing once into his vehicle. Irvine was hit in the shoulder, crashed in the median, later died at the hospital. They do say Robes' 62-year-old Romero voluntarily came in for questioning after police were able to track him down based on the registration of the Range Rover that he was driving.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they have surveillance cameras over there. I just can't imagine you're that upset. Also, you're a police officer, a retired police officer, but still you've spent your life in service and protecting others.
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Speaker 1: We've seen it.
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Speaker 2: Someone pisses you off on a bridge, and then you endanger the lives of everyone who's driving because Irvine... Fired one shot. Oh, my God. Irvine then crashes, and this is terrible. And by the way, Irvine is a husband.
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Speaker 2: A father, he's a family man. Like, this is awful.
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Speaker 1: That story is take a beat, folks. You get that mad. Somebody swerved into your lane. What was going on with him? It wasn't about that. It was about what else is going on in his life that you get that mad.
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Speaker 2: Irvine's a con ed worker. Wasn't he driving home from work? It's just awful to think. I mean, that's just, you know, anytime people get upset, even honk their horn, it's just... Don't react. You just don't know who's behind the wheel and what they may have in their vehicle.
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Speaker 1: I said to you and the girls all the time, always assume that person is crazier and will go farther than you will. So just take a beat, folks. Continuing on the run here now, let's head down to Florida, where a mayor there was arrested yesterday on accusations of stealing COVID money. This is Kissimmee, Florida, Mayor Jackie Espinoza. Charged with grand theft and fraud for allegedly robes, taking $ 50, 000 from a COVID-19 business relief fund that her own office helped set up. Yeah. Innocent until proven guilty. All right.
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Speaker 2: According to prosecutors, three businesses owned and operated by Espinoza or her immediate family members received $ 50, 000 from the grant program. Espinoza's attorney says she maintains her innocence and will challenge the charges in court She's served as mayor since 2024, and her term goes until 2028. So we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 1: The law down there allows an arrested or indicted, whatever, mayor to continue to serve. So she's still going to be mayor of the town. The prosecutors say this is so clear and so cut and dry. She says she's innocent. But they say the day the program went active, her family were the first ones to sign up for it on day one.
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Speaker 2: Did they say what they spent the money on?
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Speaker 1: No, not at all.
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Speaker 2: I need to know. All right, next up on the run, an elderly woman has been arrested in Georgia for allegedly shooting and killing her ex-husband and his new girlfriend. The suspect is 76-year-old Grace Edge.
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Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about this one later.
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Speaker 2: My goodness. Police got a 911 call after a shooting on Monday afternoon in Toombs County. It's in the southeast part of the state. Police say she shot her ex-husband, who is 75-year-old Wallace Truman Edge... and his 40-year-old girlfriend, Pamela Cook, and both of them died. Another woman was also shot, but her injuries are described as non-life-threatening. Edge has been charged with murder and aggravated assault. A 76-year-old woman shooting her 75-year-old ex-husband and his 40-year-old girlfriend.
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Speaker 1: This is so incredibly rare that you have a murder suspect this age. It is so rare in this country. Robes, we're going to get in and we're going to talk about this story a little more, including, yes, elderly offenders, murderers in this country. Just how rare something like this is. And, Robes, the situation here in the background, the backstory. Robes, he killed him. They've been divorced for 10 years, according to police.
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Speaker 2: What?
00:14:48
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:14:49
Speaker 2: This wasn't a recent thing. Oh, my goodness.
00:14:53
Speaker 1: There's so much to this story. Look for this one on the feed in a little bit. But on this morning run, stay here when we come back. A really, really, really good looking guy, at least according to him. is going to be in court today facing some really, really, really serious charges. Also coming up, an NFL player brought a gun to the facility. That's a major no-no. He's now an ex-NFL player. And we got a Pope date.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to your... Oh, I haven't said it yet. Friday Eve Morning Run. The look-smaxing influencer known as Clavicular, scheduled to be arraigned on rape charges today in Massachusetts. His actual name is Braden Peters, and he's accused of raping a 17-year-old girl at his family home in Cape Cod in May of last year while his mom and grandma were in the house. And Peters is known for promoting his sometimes extreme measures to maximize his beauty. We're talking breaking bones to try and reshape his face, that kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: What's the other stuff? Injections and something else. Weird stuff they do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all sorts of strange. You can actually go to looks maxing camps to try and, yeah, there's all of these bizarre ways to change the way you look. And it's all about getting women, right?
00:16:24
Speaker 1: Why don't we just do what women do and just take the surgical route?
00:16:27
Speaker 2: It feels like it'd be less painful, but maybe it's cheaper to do it yourself.
00:16:31
Speaker 1: Injection here. Tighten this up a little bit there. Change the jawline a little bit there.
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Speaker 2: It's gross.
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Speaker 1: Okay, he's denying all the charges against him. He's claiming, yes, that the sex was consensual. Continuing on the run here now. Kind of a still bizarre and unfortunate story. Could have gotten worse, I suppose, though, but an NFL player brought a gun to his team's practice facility, and that player has now been dismissed from the team. Robes, the original incident took place last Thursday, and yeah, this was in Nashville.
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Speaker 2: The Tennessee Titans say defensive lineman Jordan Elliott went to his car in the player parking lot to retrieve a gun after an altercation with a teammate. It's unclear right now how that incident escalated to a point that Elliott needed to go get his gun, but the team went on to say that it was a call for help more than a criminal act.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Well, yeah, that was, it's bizarre. And everybody's talking about this is, this is a mental health issue and crisis. They said, guys go at it in practice all the time. This was run of the mill, no big deal, but it got to a point where they told him to take a beat and get out of practice, step off. And he goes out to the, to the parking lot to get a gun. And they said another teammate saw him and just intervened and said, yo, man, what are you doing? But still, that was enough. The league has a strict firearm policy.
00:17:56
Speaker 2: Obviously.
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Speaker 1: Team personnel. You're not allowed to bring a gun anywhere at a league facility, anywhere that league activity is going on. You're not allowed to have a gun. But he is a seven-year pro, Rose. He's played in every game. He is a significant player. And just what happens to him now, what happens next.
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Speaker 2: But that's a liability. And thank God someone saw what he was doing and stopped him. Who knows? If it was a mental health break, it's frightening to think about what could have happened.
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Speaker 1: We hear that. And the thing that I take a pause on, Robes, the way they have come out and spoken about how wonderful of a guy he is, this makes no sense.
00:18:29
Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Great husband, great father. I mean, they are going over the top and effusive in their praise of this is a good man. And we don't know what happened.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy?
00:18:40
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:18:40
Speaker 1: We'll hear more about that.
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Speaker 2: Okay. All right. Next up on the run, and actually the final leg of our run, we'll end on a positive note.
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Speaker 1: This is great.
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Speaker 2: This is actually so wonderful because we were all waiting to hear what may be next for Pope Leo. Well, we have an update, and it's a good one. The Vatican says the pontiff will need no further treatment for his diagnosed lung cancer. That's pretty remarkable. And that means it didn't spread.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that means they went in there and they got it and it's done. So yeah, 71-year-old had those nodules removed from his lung last week. Testing then confirmed that it was cancer. But follow-up testing, they say, confirmed that the disease was localized. As you said, their robes and their words, quote, no further treatment is necessary. What will this mean for follow-ups and something to keep an eye on.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he'll have to get blood tests, I'm sure, and maybe even get scans. Like they'll do a PET scan maybe. Just lung cancer is typically and can be an aggressive form. He had the most common and maybe they did catch it early enough. The good news is I'm sure they tested his lymph nodes. And I mean, that's essentially what you do initially to see if it has spread beyond the lungs. And look, one of the places that metastasized cancers go to that can eventually become fatal is the lungs or the brain. So if it was localized and they were able to remove it all, that's fantastic.
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Speaker 1: He's out there already. He's already had an audience with people. He's been out again. It's cool. Same smile. That dude is... I'm liking this guy.
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Speaker 2: I do too. All right. And we will end with our quote of the day on this Friday Eve. Life does not get better when bad things stop. It gets better when you stop giving bad things more time than they earn.
00:20:21
Speaker 1: Boom. Say it again, Rob. Say it again. Good one today. You nailed it. You should have saved it for Friday. This is such a good one.
00:20:27
Speaker 2: Life does not get better when bad things stop. It gets better when you stop giving bad things more time than they earned.
00:20:35
Speaker 1: It is that simple as anything. Bad things, quote unquote bad things, they're happening all the time. It's happening right now. My foot hurts. The AC was on the fritz. All kinds, everything bad. Stuff bad. And that's just little stuff around the house. Big things happen to you. And Robes is just a part Yeah, I think.
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Speaker 2: You just have to say, all right, plenty of things are going to go wrong today, but I am not going to give it any more time than it deserves. Period. All right, and with that, everyone, we hope you have a wonderful day, and we always appreciate you running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.