(Thursday) Morning Run: Media Ban Blocked, Trump Does Airport Pickup, 8 Suicide Attempts, American Idol Trial, Nolan Wells Announcement, Final Words, Dolly's Estate Gets Restraining Order, New Words, Taylor's Tease, & 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.

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Speaker 3: It's Thursday, or Friday Eve, September 24th. I'm Amy Robach.

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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. The Trump Ford Theater. How's that sound?

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Speaker 2: Terrible.

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Speaker 1: Does it have a better ring than Trump Kennedy Center?

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Speaker 3: None of it has a good ring to it.

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Speaker 1: The Trump Ford Theater. You know, Ford's Theater. It's where Lincoln famously was assassinated.

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Speaker 2: Yes? Yes. Um.

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Speaker 1: There are reports out that the president is denying. It's the only reason we're kind of mentioning it. But he put out a statement, Rove, that no, I am not trying to put my name on Forge Theater. That would be ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that would be ridiculous. That's ridiculous, actually. That's hilarious. Yes. Like it would be so outrageous to think he would dare do such a thing.

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Speaker 1: Yes, but MS Now is reporting this. They have their sources. This has been discussed. Floating this as a possibility of getting his name on that thing now. Don't know how serious it is, but it's been reported to the point he had to come out and call it fake news.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: That's rich. He draws the line there. He would never do that. How dare us even think that?

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Speaker 1: Who would possibly want a name on such a tragic place is what he put it.

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Speaker 3: Oh, and now the real reason emerges.

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Speaker 1: Oh, my goodness.

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Speaker 3: I've been to the Ford Theater. It's actually wonderful.

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Speaker 2: They... hold performances there all the time and it's cool to be there as a part of history i know it's a solemn part of our history but still you look up at that booth and.

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Speaker 1: Think wow how do they have it set up that's where it all happened is it like a memorial type thing is it a little you can't.

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Speaker 3: Go in there can you no but it just it's there you can see it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it's pretty cool well um yeah and we're still not done with the kennedy center we don't know what's gonna happen with that name yet but yes i thought you would get a kick out of that this morning Robes, hello, everybody. No matter where you are, we hope you are getting off to a good Friday Eve. We're going to be making a number of stops on this morning run, including in D.C. Also make a stop by an Ohio courtroom where your jaw will drop. Also making stops, the USS Abraham Lincoln in Orlando, in Texas, as well as in Jackson, Mississippi. Let's start with this, Robes. That didn't take long. This media ban, we knew what was going to happen, and sure enough, it happened last night.

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Speaker 2: Yes, as expected is the first way we'll start this sentence. As expected, a federal judge has blocked President Trump's ban on CNN, MSNOW, and Politico, and the judge has ordered that their White House access.

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Speaker 3: Be restored immediately.

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Speaker 2: The administration faced off in court yesterday against lawyers for the media outlets. with the DOJ arguing access to the White House is a.

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Speaker 3: Privilege, not a right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they actually cited particular stories that they didn't like, Rose, from these outlets, proving that there was a national security issue or it was fake news. We're not going to go through the examples, but they are a stretch, to say the least. You don't say. Okay, the judge didn't buy any of their arguments. Granted, a 14-day restraining order, so yes, that immediately lifts the We're not sure, though, Robes, how quickly CNN or The Pool reporters might be following him around again here in New York for the United Nations, which is still going on. But it's been restored as of now.

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Speaker 3: All right. Next up on the run, it's a big day for U.S. and China relations.

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Speaker 2: President Trump literally rolled out the red carpet as President Xi and his wife arrived at Andrews Air Force Base late Wednesday. And apparently this is very rare. You don't see sitting presidents greet other world leaders on the tarmac.

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Speaker 3: You wait for them to come to the White House. But President Trump and.

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Speaker 2: Melania personally greeted the first couple on the tarmac there with this. And it was like this gorgeous photo with the red carpet and But it was a big show.

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Speaker 1: Yes, another big show, another arrival ceremony. What happened today on the South Lawn for the first couple of China with nearly 500 service members from all branches of the military and military flyovers.

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Speaker 3: It's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Communism, huh? Communists.

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Speaker 3: We're celebrating them.

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Speaker 1: This is our biggest opponent on the world stage.

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't look like it if you look at all of the photo ops that are taking place over these three days.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we do expect to hear from both the presidents following the ceremony. Then they're going to have private talks. The three Ts, what they're going with today, Robes, trade, tech, and Taiwan. What about TikTok and tariffs? And what else can we throw in there? Exactly.

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Speaker 2: And I love this. While their husbands are meeting, Melania and the First Lady of China will be visiting the Smithsonian today. And then tonight, the Trumps will hold a big state dinner with the She's. We know that Melania Trump loves her state dinners. We learned that in her documentary. This is one of her many, many skills.

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Speaker 1: You know, I do have to say, when there are big events, I'm kind of at the edge of my seat waiting to see what she wears. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: And what's on the menu and what the decor is.

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Speaker 1: She's perfection when she steps out in the hats and the suits and the jackets and everything. I can't wait to see.

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Speaker 3: She takes her official duties seriously.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. All right, next up on the run, the Pentagon is confirming that at least eight service members attempted suicide during their record deployment on the USS Abraham Lincoln. You'll remember the Lincoln had widely reported issues. There were food and supply issues, plumbing problems, and certainly mental health problems.

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Speaker 1: Remember how dismissive they were of the concerns of families? Dismissive. Fake news. They even sent a higher-up out there to the ship and said, yeah, he went out there. Everything is all good. Roves, come on. You remember, yes, you're talking about the mental health. They were reporting, the family members, that there were suicide attempts.

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Speaker 3: Trying to jump off the ship.

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Speaker 1: Out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of war. The administration dismissed all those families at the time, but now the Navy secretary has confirmed those eight suicide attempts connected to the USS Roves. Abraham Lincoln's strike group, including two attempts robes, they say happened during active fighting with Iran. Wow. They did not say that there were no confirmed, there were no successful suicide attempts involved. The USS Abraham Lincoln is still making its way. I think it stopped in Guam last, and I think this is the last stretch before it finally gets back to San Diego.

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Speaker 3: My goodness, that will be a reunion.

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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, it was an unbelievable day of testimony in the American Idol murder trial. We were literally glued to our television screen. Caleb Flint, who competed on season 12 of American Idol, is accused of killing his wife in February of this year. Police say he shot her while she was sleeping, then staged the house to make it look like someone had broken in and killed her.

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Speaker 1: So his motive, according to prosecutors, was that he was having an affair and wanted to be with the other woman. That other woman was on the stand yesterday. This was highly anticipated. No doubt the star witness in this case. Her name is Aaliyah Botner. Am I saying her first name right? It's spelled a little different. Yeah, it's Aaliyah, yes. Aaliyah Botner. She says she was 20 years old. She was a 20-year-old intern at their church when she first met Flynn. Later, it did become a sexual, a physical, a personal relationship. She gave some damning testimony yesterday about how Flynn would say he wanted his wife dead. And Robes, he repeated this over and over and over again.

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Speaker 3: This is awful.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, Ashley's family was in the courtroom and they had some shots of them crying. As they're listening to her read text messages where they refer to Ashley as douche. They don't even call her by her name. But the amount of hatred he expressed towards his wife was remarkable to the point where if anyone were on the other side of it, if you were the mistress hoping to be with him, wouldn't that be a massive red.

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Speaker 3: Flag that he could hate his wife so much?

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Speaker 1: And the other part of that, and she had to admit on the stand. She chimed in in some of this language about the wife.

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Speaker 3: I hate her and I know it hurts you.

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Speaker 2: Kill douche. You know I hate her. You know I can't stand her. You know I hate douche and want nothing to do with her.

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Speaker 3: I hate her. I hate douche more than anything. Kill her. When she said, what can I do? He said, kill her.

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Speaker 2: I mean, It is– I mean, and look, we only got to not even halfway through because we're talking 100,000-plus text messages. He had– the prosecutor had the mistress reading from these large, like, binders of text, and I think we only got up to number 11 of 34. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: And she'll be back on the stand today.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, when she was asked how she feels about him now by the prosecutor, she said.

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Speaker 3: I hate him.

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Speaker 1: And he asked her why. She flat out said, because I believe he killed his wife.

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Speaker 3: That was the... Oh, my God. And there was no objection from the defense.

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Speaker 1: Not once during the testimony, was it?

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Speaker 3: Speculation, speculative.

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Speaker 2: I could have raised an objection at this point, and there was nothing from the defense.

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Speaker 3: It was wild. Well, I mean, the cross-examination is going to be something... What do you say to her? I don't know. But we're going to have a full, full, full wrap-up on.

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Speaker 2: Because you all, you have to wait for this next episode, because we will go through so many of.

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Speaker 3: These text messages. We just, like... Just the tip.

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Speaker 2: Of the iceberg.

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Speaker 1: What do you cross-examine her about? You kind of just want her to, no, we have nothing. Get her out of here, please.

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Speaker 3: Possibly.

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Speaker 1: Just let her go.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Continuing here on this Friday Eve run. Going to be a big day or expecting potentially robes. Some big and new information in the Nolan Wells investigation. His family has scheduled an event today, let's call it an event, in which they plan to release data from Nolan Wells' cell phone. It's going to be live streamed for everybody to see in Orlando around 1130 Eastern Time today. But Ben Crump, who is representing the Wells family, says they have discovered information from his cell phone that could be critical to this investigation.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the grand jury investigating Wells' death earlier this week declined to bring criminal charges saying there was insufficient evidence to show Wells died by anyone's hand. Instead, the grand jury said Wells likely died by drowning and that was backed up by two separate forensic scientists, one of them the official medical examiner of the state of Mississippi, both coming to that same conclusion.

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Speaker 1: All right, continuing on the run now, we will stay in Mississippi where another person has been arrested in connection to the death Police say they have arrested 25-year-old Ernest Lloyd Jr. on murder charges, 51-year-old.

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Speaker 3: Jarkay, is that how you say his name?

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Speaker 1: Call him Jarquez.

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Speaker 3: Jarquez.

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Speaker 2: 51-year-old Jarquez Ratliff was arrested two weeks ago in connection with her death. And police say they are still expecting to make at least one more arrest. It's of note that both Lloyd and Ratliff are both black men. We don't have a motive. We don't know their connection to Tasia Fortune. Her family once again said they don't know this man. That name is not familiar. And they said that about Ratliff as well. So there are a lot of blanks to fill in here.

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Speaker 1: And one of those blanks is another arrest. They said they have another arrest warrant. What is their connection to this?

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Speaker 2: And hopefully they will explain what their connection was to her and how this all took place.

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Speaker 1: And again, a 29-year-old mother of four connected to these guys. We shall see. Continuing on the run here now, Texas executed 41-year-old Kershawn Ramey last night. He was the second of two men to die by lethal injection for the 2005 triple murder case. of a neighbor, his roommate, and the roommate's boyfriend. This was in an armed robbery, or at least was supposed to be, Robes. They were looking for drugs, and it turned into a triple homicide.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so Ramey had this to say before he was pronounced dead at 6.34 p.m.

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Speaker 3: Central Time. To the brothers on Texas Death Row that grew up.

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Speaker 2: With me, that poured into me, and showed what it means to be a man, because I came in young and didn't understand what manhood was to you brothers.

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Speaker 3: I greatly appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: He was 20 years old at the time of the murders. And those victims, by the way, always want to say their names. 38-year-old Celso Lopez, 18-year-old Tiffany Peacock, and 24-year-old Samuel Roberts. Ramey was the sixth inmate put to death in the state of Texas and the 28th in the United States this year.

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Speaker 1: You know what? More last words, final words than we're used to hearing. And I mean, I know, folks, he's a monster and he should die. I know people feel that. I don't know, there was something authentic in a thank you to, I mean, he was, for the most part, a kid when he goes into prison. He's been there for 20 years to a lot of, I mean, those are your formative years becoming an adult, quite frankly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he lived more of his life behind bars than he did free.

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Speaker 1: Sad all around. All right, well, stay with us here on this Friday Eve run. When we come back, Dolly Parton's estate has been granted a restraining order. Because they are in fear of her nephew. We will explain what happened there. Also, turns out Taylor Swift was just teasing us. And Robach has some new words she wants to pass along to you.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to your Thursday morning run. And Dolly Parton's estate has officially been granted a temporary restraining order against the country legend's nephew. We told you about this story yesterday, this nasty fight that is brewing between Parton's estate and her nephew, Brian Seaver. And we all know who Brian Seaver is because, yes, when Dolly died on August 25th, the announcement was made in a video message by Seaver.

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Speaker 3: He had served as her head of security for more than 20 years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but he was fired just in the weeks after she died. Fired by the estate she set up to handle her legacy after her death. Now, the estate was asking for the restraining order against him, claiming he had threatened to smear his aunt and even made physical threats against employees. They actually called it a campaign of threats and claimed Seavers promised to destroy the entire brand. The estate also said he's demanding money and threatened to start a podcast about to tarnish his aunt's reputation.

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Speaker 3: Woo, all right.

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Speaker 2: A hearing is scheduled for October 7th, but for now, Seaver and his employees must stay away from part and properties and not interfere with any business relationships. involving Dolly Parton. Seaver's been giving statements to many different media outlets.

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Speaker 3: Trying to act like, well, this is just how I talk. Dolly called me her killer. I'm the killer.

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Speaker 2: I wasn't making threats. This is just us doing our thing. It doesn't really read when you look at the text how he's trying to explain the tone as being, you know, just how we talk.

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Speaker 1: Well, the judge didn't buy it either and essentially said stay away from everything. You remember that letter, the termination letter?

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: That was strongly worded.

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Speaker 3: Very strongly worded.

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Speaker 1: They use the language, do not set foot on.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 3: Say a thousand feet from.

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Speaker 2: Yes. Next up on the run, Taylor Swift apparently was just teasing Swifties yesterday when she announced she'll be releasing a new single this week.

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Speaker 3: As usual, there was a lot more to that announcement. She knows exactly what she's doing because it won't just be one song, Swifties. It'll be four new songs.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if she's like this in her relationship. Like she leaves, what do they call them, Easter eggs?

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Speaker 3: Easter eggs, yeah. Breadcrumbing, Easter egg hunting.

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Speaker 1: Why don't she does that around the house with Travis?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Right?

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Speaker 1: Because this is what she does now. I don't, if she makes one announcement, I just sit around and wait. Yeah, there's more. I'll just wait for it. I'm not going to get excited about this because there's going to be the next thing and the next thing and the next thing. And yes, not going to be just one song. It's going to be Four songs that are being released. And Robes, not just four songs put out randomly. They're going to be attached to the Life of a Showgirl album, that record album. So there are four new tracks, 13 through 16, going to be added to that. So kind of an extended LP. But this is her first music as a married woman, so I am curious.

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Speaker 3: All right, we will look for it. Now, for the final leg of your run.

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Speaker 1: I haven't looked at this yet.

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Speaker 2: More than a dozen words used across the Caribbean officially became part of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Speaker 3: I thought this was cool.

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Speaker 2: They just wanted to include some words that are often used and exchanged in Bermuda and across the Caribbean.

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Speaker 3: We love the Caribbean. I've not heard of any of these words.

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Speaker 2: Bimpert.

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Speaker 3: You know what a bimpert is?

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Speaker 1: Can you use it in a sentence?

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Speaker 2: Um... Trump sometimes acts like such a bimpert when he makes decisions to try and put his name on.

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Speaker 3: Buildings.

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Speaker 1: So Bembert is a petulant child?

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Speaker 3: A stupid or foolish person.

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Speaker 1: Oh, okay. I thought mine was insulting.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: No, come on.

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Speaker 3: Horner Man.

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Speaker 1: Who's what?

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Speaker 3: Horner Man.

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Speaker 1: Horner? I don't know what that is.

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Speaker 3: Well, a lot of U.S. congressmen have been accused of this.

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Speaker 1: You said Horner, not Horny?

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Speaker 3: Horner Man. But yes, it does all read though.

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Speaker 2: It's A word used in Trinidad and Tobago to describe an unfaithful man or a man.

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Speaker 3: Having a relationship with someone else's partner.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 3: Horner man.

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Speaker 1: Horny man. Okay.

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Speaker 3: He's a horner man.

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Speaker 1: We're saying the same thing.

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Speaker 3: How about a jebles?

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Speaker 1: How do you spell that?

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Speaker 3: J-A-B-L-E-S-S-E.

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Speaker 1: I could be saying it wrong. Jeblesse.

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Speaker 3: Jeblesse. Okay. With our love of horror movies, you'd think we'd know what this is.

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Speaker 1: Oh, no.

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Speaker 2: But apparently, this is a malevolent, shape-shifting female spirit with one cloven hoof, which is said to assume the form of a beautiful woman.

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Speaker 3: Okay, what island do they use that one on? I didn't see.

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Speaker 1: Let's not go there.

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Speaker 2: And we love some shadish when we go to our Mexican restaurants.

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Speaker 1: Spell shadish for me.

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Speaker 3: S-H-A-D-E-E-S-H.

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Speaker 1: Shadish, no, I don't know it.

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Speaker 3: It's the Bermudian word for chorizo. And here, I'll end with this one.

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Speaker 2: Do you know what a douen is?

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Speaker 1: A who? A douen. Spell douen for me.

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Speaker 3: D-O-U-E-N.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 2: It's said to be the spirit of a child who died before it could be baptized.

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Speaker 1: Jesus.

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Speaker 2: And it's believed to lure children into the forest by calling their names. It's short in stature with backward pointing feet. How freaking scary is that?

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Speaker 1: That's the last one?

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: We're ending on that one?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's about to be October, and I thought we could all get into the Halloween spirit.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a happy thing.

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Speaker 3: I should have ended with Shadish.

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Speaker 1: Oh, my God. There were two spirits in there. I know. I don't like that.

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Speaker 3: Well, yes, you know, they are. You do.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like that whole culture where you do have a strong belief in the supernatural. Yes.

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Speaker 3: All right. All right. How about this? Quote of the day on this Friday Eve. I love this quote.

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Speaker 2: Watch how quickly your energy shifts when you decide to let everyone else be who they are and that you are a victim of nothing.

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Speaker 1: That's what I call sitting at home alone. That's when I'm, yeah, I relate to that. Really? Yeah, that's peace to me because there's nobody around. There's nobody to judge. There's nobody to think about.

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Speaker 3: It's not about being alone in ice. yourself.

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Speaker 2: It's about when you're in the middle of everything and people are pissing you off, you decide to just let everybody do who they are.

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Speaker 1: You can't let me have my experience here?

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Speaker 3: But it's not about shutting yourself out from the world.

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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I remove myself from all those people. You all go about your business. Be who you are. Knock yourselves out. I'm going to sit over here and not Think about who you are.

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Speaker 3: I don't think this is a quote that encourages hermiting.

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Speaker 1: You can't let me have my experience? Can I?

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Speaker 2: Oh, wow.

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Speaker 3: I'm supposed to let you do what you want to do.

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Speaker 1: There it is. And it all comes around, doesn't it?

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Speaker 3: Watch how quickly your energy shifts. I just shifted.

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Speaker 2: When you decide to let everyone else be who they are and that you are a victim of nothing.

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Speaker 1: There it is.

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Speaker 3: I do love it, though.

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Speaker 2: When you start realizing what your brain starts doing, you're like, wait, I'm trying to make myself a victim right now.

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Speaker 3: Stop it right now.

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Speaker 1: Look at what happened to me. Yes, stop doing that.

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Speaker 2: No. And you end up in such a better place when you can make that choice. All right.

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Speaker 3: It happened in real time, everybody. And thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.

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Speaker 1: And I'm the hermit. We'll run soon.