Nov. 5, 2026
(THURSDAY) "Morning Run": Trump Prefers Ballroom Talk, Races Too Close To Call, Pete Hegseth Gets Blamed, Stocks Soar, Gunman Crashes Citibank, Midnight Execution in IN, 2 More Executions Today, Bob + Bob at Vatican, & MORE!
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00:00:11
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Thursday morning run. Yes, it's Friday Eve, November 5th. I'm Amy Robach.
00:00:18
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. How you doing this morning, mama? You good on this Thursday, this Friday Eve?
00:00:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what? We're getting some badly needed rain here in New York City, and I know this sounds crazy, but I'm kind of excited about it.
00:00:30
Speaker 2: We got a rainy day today? Yeah. You know, I'm looking forward to that. I don't know what's going on. I think it's the news. I said to you recently, I need to take a beat. We have another story of familicide this morning to pass along. And the stories, it's just so heavy from the Lindsay Clancy. Like, just something about it. I've said to you plenty of times here lately, babe, I just, I'm waiting for something to go wrong. Like, I'm so scared of something going wrong. And you said, wow, your life must be really going well.
00:01:01
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, that is one way to look at it, but it is true. When you're talking about some of these headlines, it is important to kind of take a beat and get some perspective because it does feel overwhelmingly heavy sometimes. I think a lot of people get news exhaustion, and especially I think maybe the midterm is being over now when there was so much mudslinging and so much divisiveness and so much negativity that on top of violence and all of that, it becomes too much sometimes.
00:01:28
Speaker 2: The runners. The runners. The randomness of this young lady being attacked here in New York running, 28, dead, half a mile from home. Parents, find her. The young lady that died in the marathon that I'm literally running past. Well, there's just, I don't know what's going on. I've said to you plenty, and you keep telling me, man, things must be going well because you're scared to lose it all for some reason. But I just want to stop and appreciate, and man, appreciate everything and everybody right now because, man, life is just... precious.
00:01:58
Speaker 1: It is.
00:01:58
Speaker 2: You just don't know. But with that, start to this Friday Eve, everybody. Welcome. We got a bunch of stops to make this morning, man. We are all over the place. We're going to be making a stop at the Pentagon, the White House ballroom construction site. We'll make a stop by Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Also, we'll swing by Wall Street to Tampa. We'll head up Indiana, Alabama, as well as the Vatican. And what's the name of the city or whatever in the Gilded Age is New York, right? It's based in New York. So we're going to go back to New York in what year was all that?
00:02:32
Speaker 1: It's like the 1920s, like the Roaring Twenties, that kind of era.
00:02:35
Speaker 2: We're swinging by New York in the Gilded Age this morning and Robes will walk us through that. But let's start. Let's give you an update. Yes, Election Day was on Tuesday, but Robes, some things still need to be decided.
00:02:46
Speaker 1: That is true. Yes, we know the answer to the big question that was on Election Day, will Democrats take back control of Congress? The answer was a resounding hell yes, we are. But the question remains, just how big will that majority be? Because the votes are still being tallied. Some races are still being decided across the country. But here is where things officially stand this morning.
00:03:07
Speaker 2: Democrats have secured at least 240 seats in Congress. Remember, they hold 214 seats currently. So right now, before everything is even decided, they have gone from 214 to 240 and are expected to pick up some more in the Senate. Democrats have secured at least 54 seats in the Senate. And remember, they have just 47 in the current Congress. That is a big flip.
00:03:33
Speaker 1: That's right. And Democrats have two more chances to improve those numbers even more in the Senate because there are still two races to be decided. In Alaska, Democrat Mary Paltola holds a tiny lead over the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, 48.2%. versus 47.9%. That is less than 500 votes that separate those two.
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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to, I think I got about three quarters of the vote in. They're still waiting for 75%, excuse me, 25% of the votes still out there. I think they sent out 70, 80,000 votes outstanding. So this thing could flip And then in Mississippi, the incumbent Republican, Cindy Hyde-Smith. This is not one that was on the Republicans' board for being possibly in danger. But Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican incumbent in Mississippi, is behind by about 1,200 votes. Democrat Scott Colon, this is a 49 to 48.9 percent contest.
00:04:29
Speaker 1: Woo!
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Speaker 2: Right now, that one, most of this vote is in, like 96%, so very few votes are still outstanding.
00:04:38
Speaker 1: It is wild to think, though, with all of the elections and all the concern about tight margins and voter fraud and all of these, nothing was even close. We only have a couple tight races. That's pretty remarkable. All right, next up on the run, the finger-pointing and the blame game started immediately on election night, and there's plenty of it to go around. Some are blaming tariffs or the poor quality of Republican candidates or gas prices, and some are just blaming President Trump. But there is a new target that has emerged.
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Speaker 2: Did you see this one coming?
00:05:09
Speaker 1: No.
00:05:10
Speaker 2: Pete Hexeth. Pete Hegseth, yes, the gas prices and things you point to, Robes, all come from the war in Iran. It's unpopular, sure, but certainly with the gas prices, diesel prices, it's unpopular. So why is Pete Hegseth getting the blame? Because he's seen as one of the chief architects and one of the people whispering in the president's ear, we need to do this, we got to go do this, we can do this, this will be easy. Right. They're saying he's the one that's been guiding this guy and telling him it's not going to be an issue.
00:05:38
Speaker 1: Mr.
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Speaker 2: President, no problem. And didn't give him a real strategy for how to get out of it. So, yes, the knives out. You'll see a lot of headlines that say that. But this is not just talk and banter. Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who is a thorn in the side of this administration, said he is going to introduce articles of impeachment robes next week against Hexeth. So midterms are over. Here we go.
00:06:03
Speaker 1: And people wonder if President Trump also, if that's going to move forward as well. And now the Democrats control Congress.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. All right. Next up on the run. However, things eventually shake out in the new Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson will obviously not remain the Republican leader. Johnson, who has served as speaker for the past two terms, has reportedly decided not to continue as part of the Republican leadership. He would be the minority leader, correct, now. So Republicans are scheduled to pick new leadership next week. It would be hard to go from the majority leader to the minority leader.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's still a powerful position. And look, this is a guy, people have their issues with his politics and that he is in lockstep with the president often. But this is one guy, more often than not, I see his face on TV and I just go bless his heart.
00:06:54
Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: He's got a tough job.
00:06:56
Speaker 1: And he has great facial expressions because he's one of the two that has to sit behind the president when he addresses Congress. And you always look at the two people sitting on either side. He has a good resting face.
00:07:10
Speaker 2: He never looks angry. No. He's pleasant. You're a dentist almost.
00:07:15
Speaker 1: He has a resting, pleasant face.
00:07:15
Speaker 2: He does, Robes. Give him credit. He has a tough job. So we shall see who they end up picking to carry the torch. Now, we did hear from President Trump yesterday, the day after his Republican Party just got wiped clean, for the most part, in this landslide, historic landslide. But in his first public appearance, Rose, we were all itching to hear. We thought, you know, a lot of presidents do press conferences, don't they? Right after. He didn't do that. He did face the press, however, but he did it on his terms.
00:07:46
Speaker 1: Yes. What did he want to talk about the day after his party lost control of Congress? Construction of the White House ballroom. In a bizarre conversation with reporters, and that really is the only way to describe it, Trump began talking... in detail about marble floors. Like, we're sitting here waiting for him to discuss this massive pummeling his party took. He says, the owner of the quarry didn't want to sell it, but he liked me, and he was so honored to be doing it for the country, for the White House, and the marble floor. You'll see, it's the most beautiful marble you'll ever see. Literally, this is what he's talking about. So, yes, past presidents have acknowledged the midterm losses. I thought this was funny. One article wrote, George W. Bush said, Republicans took a thump in Back in 2006, Barack Obama said Democrats took a shellacking. In 2010, President Trump just was talking marble.
00:08:37
Speaker 2: This looked odd. And I don't know, baby. I mean, it's what he wants to do. Maybe this is part of a strategy to distract or deflect or not talk about what actually happened. But it just seemed like odd behavior from an adult. It just seemed weird, baby, that he is out there doing this. Um, I don't know who's advising him. I don't know who's saying, oh, he can just do what he wants to do. But Robes, this is, history was made the day before. He came out and almost didn't even acknowledge that it had happened.
00:09:07
Speaker 1: Yes, and the only time he did was when a reporter finally asked him about whether the Iran war had been worth the gas prices, which many point to as the reason why Republicans took such a huge hit. Republicans took such a huge hit. Trump only said this, if I were on the ballot, we would have won, and then moved on.
00:09:26
Speaker 2: Okay, and you have So case in point, right? Why you lost the midterms.
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Speaker 1: That.
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Speaker 2: The day after the whole country sent you a message, your response to them was, look at my ballroom. And wasn't that the argument, Rose? He's not focused on the things that Americans are worried about.
00:09:41
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
00:09:42
Speaker 2: More ballroom.
00:09:43
Speaker 1: But next up on the run, there was some good news in the aftermath of the election. Stocks soared on Wednesday. it wasn't just the Democrats sweeping victory that prompted the rally. Economists believe it was also President Trump's acceptance of the outcome. Maybe he didn't talk about it, but he didn't dog it. And that drove the markets in an upwards trajectory. The Dow Jones jumped 3%. The Nasdaq climbed 1.4%. And the S & P 500 had its best day in three months.
00:10:13
Speaker 2: The price of crude oil also dropped to its lowest level in two months, falling below the $ 95 mark. Also, stocks tend to do better in the months following midterms, regardless of which party wins. It's just a matter of getting things settled and being able to plan for the future. As bad a day as he had on Tuesday, and then the whole world said, yay. And the stock market took it. That can't feel good.
00:10:37
Speaker 1: No, it can't. Everything went in the right direction. But they also said that, look, he is a smart man when it comes to the economy. He knows what he says and what he doesn't say absolutely drives the stock market. And perhaps he does care about where stocks are. And that will be a part of his legacy. So he probably knew.
00:10:55
Speaker 2: To shut up. He posted about it, too, was bragging about how the stock market is doing. Yeah.
00:11:00
Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, a woman was killed by a gunman. who crashed his vehicle into the Citibank corporate office yesterday. This happened in Tampa. Police say the man drove his car over a median, through a fence, and then into the outdoor seating area of the Citibank campus where more than 3,000 people worked.
00:11:21
Speaker 2: And you can imagine this if you haven't seen the video, just an outdoor courtyard type place where your employees can go out and sit and have their lunch. That's what he drove into. Now, the gunman shot the woman, got out of his car, went to her and shot her, according to police, proceeded through the campus where he was confronted by and shot by armed security. That gunman later died at the hospital. Robes police have not identified the shooter. They have not identified the victim, but they are investigating this as a target attack. Robes, there's terrifying video. You see this guy walking around with a rifle on this campus. Robes, he had and could have, it appears, fired on many more people, but It appears it was a targeted attack. He did all this to go after one woman at work?
00:12:03
Speaker 1: My goodness.
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Speaker 2: We need to hear more about that, but two people killed in that. Yeah, no other injuries to report.
00:12:11
Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, in the wee hours of the night, Indiana carried out what will be the first of three executions today in the United States. Jeffrey Weisheit. was pronounced dead at 2.45 a.m. 12, 12, 12, 12. Oh, sorry, I meant to say that, and my brain did not actually communicate with my mouth. 12.45 a.m. local time. He had been on death row for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and her brother, 5-year-old Caleb. Those were his then-girlfriend's children.
00:12:41
Speaker 2: Now, Weishardt's final meal, this is always interesting to hear, he wanted ribs from Texas Corral, that restaurant, and he wanted a Mountain Dew. Was this final? We haven't heard this one necessarily before. He was asked if he had any final words. He had none. This was the first of three. They were all scheduled for November 5th, but like we said, we talked about this yesterday, Indiana is one of those states. They plan theirs for midnight. They have theirs that say you have to do it before sunrise, and so now the last four executions they've done, that person has been declared dead by 1245 in the morning. They start them at midnight and get them done, and it's over.
00:13:20
Speaker 1: Yep, and so those two other executions scheduled for today, one in Alabama, one in Florida, both will be taking place at 6 p.m. local time, and they will both be done by lethal injection. We'll have more on those two coming up later in our feed.
00:13:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the first one's going to be in Florida. It's going to be their 19th. Remember, they had, what, 19 last year, so this will tie their record from last year, and then they have two others scheduled for this year, but this is Jesse Guardado. 2004 murderer killed an elderly woman that he was robbing so he is going to be killed in florida later today and then in alabama michael taylor scheduled to be executed with a 1991 double murder of an elderly couple he was 19 at the time so we're at 33 executions in the u.s this year and 18 of them have been.
00:14:06
Speaker 1: In florida that's crazy.
00:14:07
Speaker 2: 18 of them have been in florida we uh The Michael Taylor is a really, it's another, all these cases are fascinating backdrops for different reasons. But there are some details about both of these that make these very, once again, fascinating cases. We'll have those for the feed, or in the feed for you a little later.
00:14:25
Speaker 1: All right, but in the meantime, next up on the run, we head to Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where a father and his two young children fell to their deaths from a parking garage. And police believe it was not an accident. They are calling it a possible double murder-suicide case. And they believe the dad intentionally killed himself and the kids. We're talking about 42-year-old Patrick Lynch, his 8-year-old son James, and 6-year-old daughter Caroline. They were all found Tuesday. Can you imagine that discovery? They all had injuries from that apparent fall. They were all pronounced dead at the scene. And his wife said on social media that her husband had lost his job back in August, had been struggling with depression... even, this is sad, had a therapy session scheduled for November 4th. That was the day after those deaths.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. But this is a scene of horror, Robes. Yeah, we are going to speak on this in our feed probably a little later today as well. Robes, just these keep adding up. Every morning, It's unbelievable. Every week, I greet you in some way by saying, it's happened again when you walk into this room.
00:15:40
Speaker 1: I feel like it is about once a week, babe, and that's just so unfortunate. So, yes, we have to keep talking about it.
00:15:45
Speaker 2: All right. Well, stay with us on this Thursday. Friday.
00:15:49
Speaker 1: Friday.
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Speaker 2: Morning run. When we come back, Bob. stopped by the Vatican to see Bob. We'll explain this strange meeting that included a really interesting picture. Also, Robes will take us back to the Gilded Age and explain why you need to watch very, very closely to this new season.
00:16:23
Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday Eve morning run. And next up on the run, we're going to head to the Vatican. Wouldn't that be nice, though, just to jet set to Rome right about now? Well, a certain rock legend was able to do so and got to meet a very cool resident. Pope Leo, yes, had a legendary visitor yesterday. Don't know why, but it was kind of cool and interesting to see Pope Leo and Bob Dylan together. Dylan's currently on a tour through Italy, and according to the Vatican, yeah, he wanted to meet the Pope. And I guess when you're Bob Dylan, you get to say, hey, Pope, can we have a little lunch date?
00:17:03
Speaker 2: Who do you call? Just a switchboard?
00:17:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, your people have to call his people, and we're not even on that stratosphere or level, so I wouldn't know. Yeah.
00:17:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, I heart. You call up the Vatican, Rogues and I are going to be in Rome.
00:17:14
Speaker 1: We'd like to meet the Pope, have him bless a couple of things. But the two took photos. They had a private meeting. It only happened for a couple of minutes. But it's really funny because the Pope is in all white. I mean, that's not shocking. That's what we're typically used to seeing him in. But Bob Dylan was dressed for a funeral. It looked like he was in all black. But like with the rocker's edge, he had a hoodie with the... Look, a lot of times you wear head coverings as a woman. You cover your shoulders. I've been to some other areas of the Vatican. Yes, you have to be covered up.
00:17:43
Speaker 2: But he seemed... It wasn't that.
00:17:45
Speaker 1: He looked like a 12-year-old video gamer coming in.
00:17:50
Speaker 2: But it was weird. He had a black hoodie on, Rose. And the hood was on the whole time. In every picture. He said he looked like a funeral... He was like going to a funeral for a skateboarder.
00:18:01
Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. They're funny photos, but a cool meeting, the two Bobs, because yes, Pope Leo's first name is Robert, in case you didn't know. We don't say it very often. It's weird to call the Pope Robert or Bob, Bobby, nah.
00:18:15
Speaker 2: This will be the only time, by the way, just because it went with this, I will not be calling him Bob as we move forward.
00:18:21
Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our run and my favorite story of the day, for fans of the Gilded Age, if you are like me, actually, I have been holding... watching season four's premiere episode. It came out on Sunday. And in fact, it was funny. Yesterday, I didn't tell you this, you were going down to work on your motorcycle. And I thought, ooh, could I squeeze in? How long has it been gone? 20 minutes, 30 minutes of this first episode? And I thought, you know what? No. I don't want to squeeze it in. I want to savor it. So I waited.
00:18:48
Speaker 2: Do other couples do this? This is really funny. We watch so much together. There are a few things that I'm into that you don't like, a few things you're into that I don't like. And I remember when the He-Man movie came out, it took me a month to watch it because I was just sneaking in 10 minutes when you were in the shower or something.
00:19:06
Speaker 1: I would come back in and I'd be like, why are you watching He-Man? Like, I'll sit down with you. Like, I would have watched it with you. But you knew that I wouldn't probably enjoy it. It's funny. You and Sabine had a plan possibly to watch the next game. And I then was devising a plan to go into the bedroom and watch the Gilded Age. But you ended up not watching it.
00:19:23
Speaker 2: So, yes, I did.
00:19:24
Speaker 1: Long story short, I haven't seen it yet. So I'm excited about this.
00:19:27
Speaker 3: If you did see it, you still may have missed what we're about to tell you, and you're going to want to go back and watch it because two unlikely stars made a six-second appearance just for the fun of it.
00:19:41
Speaker 1: This is hilarious. I've seen the pictures. Matt Damon and David Letterman made surprise cameo appearances in... full Victorian garb with top hats and the beards, walking across the street from the Van Ryn home to the Russell home in New York City. And if you are a fan of the show, you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's so cool. I love this show when New York City was just starting to be built by the... you know, the richest of the rich, this new money. And so, yes, the Van Ryans live across from the Russells. And this is just six seconds. And if you blinked, you literally would miss it. The funny story is how this all came about. I wasn't aware of Letterman's obsession with this, but apparently a showrunner for his show, my guest, my next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman. He has a longtime goal of appearing in the background of productions, like just for the fun of it. He likes the idea of it. So His folks approached the Gilded Age producers because they wanted to fit it in with an upcoming episode of his show featuring Matt Damon, who began his career as a background actor. So he thought this was like the perfect combination to have both of them.
00:20:51
Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good backstory.
00:20:53
Speaker 1: Right? So the two shows collaborated. The end result is hilarious.
00:20:58
Speaker 2: Okay, that's good.
00:20:58
Speaker 1: It's not distracting. The Gilded Age just said, like, we'll do this, but we don't want this to be distracting to the storyline. I mean, this is a serious show. It's not a comedy. It's, you know, it's a, I guess, I'm trying to, like, it's a romance, drama, period, drama kind of a show.
00:21:16
Speaker 2: It's not a lot of comedy.
00:21:17
Speaker 1: It's not funny.
00:21:18
Speaker 2: It's not a lot of levity. No, it isn't.
00:21:20
Speaker 1: But I like this. The Gilded Age executive producer put it like this. It was really one of those rare moments in our business where everyone's having a lot of fun, doing something special, and there was this great authenticity to it that felt very specific to these two shows. And so it just worked. So now I am extra excited about watching episode one of season four.
00:21:40
Speaker 2: Is the lady from White Lotus, she's still in the show?
00:21:45
Speaker 1: Yes.
00:21:45
Speaker 2: Okay, I wasn't familiar with her. I love her, White Lotus.
00:21:49
Speaker 1: Carrie Coon. She is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Incredible. She is Mrs.
00:21:54
Speaker 1: Russell.
00:21:54
Speaker 2: I'll watch for her.
00:21:55
Speaker 1: The acting on this show, just the arc of the show, the stories that they tell, and they really are careful to give it some of its historic... Oh, okay. You just told me to speed up. I was about to get so excited talking about the Gildan Age. I'll move on, but everyone, please check it out. Quote of the day on this Friday Eve from another sports legend. Don't get so caught up in the last thing that went wrong that you miss the opportunity to make the next thing go right. Wayne Gretzky.
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Speaker 2: Wayne. The GOAT. Yes. The legend.
00:22:33
Speaker 1: It's good to know that even some legends, yes, we all go through these periods of tumult or things that go wrong. I just like getting in the right mindset, and I feel like sports legends like these had to to continue to do what they did every single day.
00:22:47
Speaker 2: To be great. Who cares? Who worried about the last shot I took that didn't go in? What's the point of that? Need to make this next one. Yeah, their mindset, you have to forget. You have to have short memories, especially in basketball. They play so many games. Yeah, I got to go play tomorrow night. I got to sit here and worry about this. You know, you and I have done this a lot in our careers, have we not? Oh, yes. Show didn't go right. Well, I get a chance to do it tomorrow.
00:23:09
Speaker 1: That's right. So everybody, don't get so caught up in the last thing that went wrong that you missed the opportunity to make the next thing go right. And with that, everyone, we hope you have a wonderful day on this Thursday. I'm Amy Robach.
00:23:21
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your Thursday morning run. Yes, it's Friday Eve, November 5th. I'm Amy Robach.
00:00:18
Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. How you doing this morning, mama? You good on this Thursday, this Friday Eve?
00:00:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what? We're getting some badly needed rain here in New York City, and I know this sounds crazy, but I'm kind of excited about it.
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Speaker 2: We got a rainy day today? Yeah. You know, I'm looking forward to that. I don't know what's going on. I think it's the news. I said to you recently, I need to take a beat. We have another story of familicide this morning to pass along. And the stories, it's just so heavy from the Lindsay Clancy. Like, just something about it. I've said to you plenty of times here lately, babe, I just, I'm waiting for something to go wrong. Like, I'm so scared of something going wrong. And you said, wow, your life must be really going well.
00:01:01
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, that is one way to look at it, but it is true. When you're talking about some of these headlines, it is important to kind of take a beat and get some perspective because it does feel overwhelmingly heavy sometimes. I think a lot of people get news exhaustion, and especially I think maybe the midterm is being over now when there was so much mudslinging and so much divisiveness and so much negativity that on top of violence and all of that, it becomes too much sometimes.
00:01:28
Speaker 2: The runners. The runners. The randomness of this young lady being attacked here in New York running, 28, dead, half a mile from home. Parents, find her. The young lady that died in the marathon that I'm literally running past. Well, there's just, I don't know what's going on. I've said to you plenty, and you keep telling me, man, things must be going well because you're scared to lose it all for some reason. But I just want to stop and appreciate, and man, appreciate everything and everybody right now because, man, life is just... precious.
00:01:58
Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 2: You just don't know. But with that, start to this Friday Eve, everybody. Welcome. We got a bunch of stops to make this morning, man. We are all over the place. We're going to be making a stop at the Pentagon, the White House ballroom construction site. We'll make a stop by Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Also, we'll swing by Wall Street to Tampa. We'll head up Indiana, Alabama, as well as the Vatican. And what's the name of the city or whatever in the Gilded Age is New York, right? It's based in New York. So we're going to go back to New York in what year was all that?
00:02:32
Speaker 1: It's like the 1920s, like the Roaring Twenties, that kind of era.
00:02:35
Speaker 2: We're swinging by New York in the Gilded Age this morning and Robes will walk us through that. But let's start. Let's give you an update. Yes, Election Day was on Tuesday, but Robes, some things still need to be decided.
00:02:46
Speaker 1: That is true. Yes, we know the answer to the big question that was on Election Day, will Democrats take back control of Congress? The answer was a resounding hell yes, we are. But the question remains, just how big will that majority be? Because the votes are still being tallied. Some races are still being decided across the country. But here is where things officially stand this morning.
00:03:07
Speaker 2: Democrats have secured at least 240 seats in Congress. Remember, they hold 214 seats currently. So right now, before everything is even decided, they have gone from 214 to 240 and are expected to pick up some more in the Senate. Democrats have secured at least 54 seats in the Senate. And remember, they have just 47 in the current Congress. That is a big flip.
00:03:33
Speaker 1: That's right. And Democrats have two more chances to improve those numbers even more in the Senate because there are still two races to be decided. In Alaska, Democrat Mary Paltola holds a tiny lead over the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, 48.2%. versus 47.9%. That is less than 500 votes that separate those two.
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Speaker 2: And I'm trying to, I think I got about three quarters of the vote in. They're still waiting for 75%, excuse me, 25% of the votes still out there. I think they sent out 70, 80,000 votes outstanding. So this thing could flip And then in Mississippi, the incumbent Republican, Cindy Hyde-Smith. This is not one that was on the Republicans' board for being possibly in danger. But Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican incumbent in Mississippi, is behind by about 1,200 votes. Democrat Scott Colon, this is a 49 to 48.9 percent contest.
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Speaker 1: Woo!
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Speaker 2: Right now, that one, most of this vote is in, like 96%, so very few votes are still outstanding.
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Speaker 1: It is wild to think, though, with all of the elections and all the concern about tight margins and voter fraud and all of these, nothing was even close. We only have a couple tight races. That's pretty remarkable. All right, next up on the run, the finger-pointing and the blame game started immediately on election night, and there's plenty of it to go around. Some are blaming tariffs or the poor quality of Republican candidates or gas prices, and some are just blaming President Trump. But there is a new target that has emerged.
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Speaker 2: Did you see this one coming?
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Pete Hexeth. Pete Hegseth, yes, the gas prices and things you point to, Robes, all come from the war in Iran. It's unpopular, sure, but certainly with the gas prices, diesel prices, it's unpopular. So why is Pete Hegseth getting the blame? Because he's seen as one of the chief architects and one of the people whispering in the president's ear, we need to do this, we got to go do this, we can do this, this will be easy. Right. They're saying he's the one that's been guiding this guy and telling him it's not going to be an issue.
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Speaker 1: Mr.
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Speaker 2: President, no problem. And didn't give him a real strategy for how to get out of it. So, yes, the knives out. You'll see a lot of headlines that say that. But this is not just talk and banter. Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky, who is a thorn in the side of this administration, said he is going to introduce articles of impeachment robes next week against Hexeth. So midterms are over. Here we go.
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Speaker 1: And people wonder if President Trump also, if that's going to move forward as well. And now the Democrats control Congress.
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Speaker 2: Here we go.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. All right. Next up on the run. However, things eventually shake out in the new Congress. Speaker Mike Johnson will obviously not remain the Republican leader. Johnson, who has served as speaker for the past two terms, has reportedly decided not to continue as part of the Republican leadership. He would be the minority leader, correct, now. So Republicans are scheduled to pick new leadership next week. It would be hard to go from the majority leader to the minority leader.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's still a powerful position. And look, this is a guy, people have their issues with his politics and that he is in lockstep with the president often. But this is one guy, more often than not, I see his face on TV and I just go bless his heart.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: He's got a tough job.
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Speaker 1: And he has great facial expressions because he's one of the two that has to sit behind the president when he addresses Congress. And you always look at the two people sitting on either side. He has a good resting face.
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Speaker 2: He never looks angry. No. He's pleasant. You're a dentist almost.
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Speaker 1: He has a resting, pleasant face.
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Speaker 2: He does, Robes. Give him credit. He has a tough job. So we shall see who they end up picking to carry the torch. Now, we did hear from President Trump yesterday, the day after his Republican Party just got wiped clean, for the most part, in this landslide, historic landslide. But in his first public appearance, Rose, we were all itching to hear. We thought, you know, a lot of presidents do press conferences, don't they? Right after. He didn't do that. He did face the press, however, but he did it on his terms.
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Speaker 1: Yes. What did he want to talk about the day after his party lost control of Congress? Construction of the White House ballroom. In a bizarre conversation with reporters, and that really is the only way to describe it, Trump began talking... in detail about marble floors. Like, we're sitting here waiting for him to discuss this massive pummeling his party took. He says, the owner of the quarry didn't want to sell it, but he liked me, and he was so honored to be doing it for the country, for the White House, and the marble floor. You'll see, it's the most beautiful marble you'll ever see. Literally, this is what he's talking about. So, yes, past presidents have acknowledged the midterm losses. I thought this was funny. One article wrote, George W. Bush said, Republicans took a thump in Back in 2006, Barack Obama said Democrats took a shellacking. In 2010, President Trump just was talking marble.
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Speaker 2: This looked odd. And I don't know, baby. I mean, it's what he wants to do. Maybe this is part of a strategy to distract or deflect or not talk about what actually happened. But it just seemed like odd behavior from an adult. It just seemed weird, baby, that he is out there doing this. Um, I don't know who's advising him. I don't know who's saying, oh, he can just do what he wants to do. But Robes, this is, history was made the day before. He came out and almost didn't even acknowledge that it had happened.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and the only time he did was when a reporter finally asked him about whether the Iran war had been worth the gas prices, which many point to as the reason why Republicans took such a huge hit. Republicans took such a huge hit. Trump only said this, if I were on the ballot, we would have won, and then moved on.
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Speaker 2: Okay, and you have So case in point, right? Why you lost the midterms.
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Speaker 1: That.
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Speaker 2: The day after the whole country sent you a message, your response to them was, look at my ballroom. And wasn't that the argument, Rose? He's not focused on the things that Americans are worried about.
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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 2: More ballroom.
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Speaker 1: But next up on the run, there was some good news in the aftermath of the election. Stocks soared on Wednesday. it wasn't just the Democrats sweeping victory that prompted the rally. Economists believe it was also President Trump's acceptance of the outcome. Maybe he didn't talk about it, but he didn't dog it. And that drove the markets in an upwards trajectory. The Dow Jones jumped 3%. The Nasdaq climbed 1.4%. And the S & P 500 had its best day in three months.
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Speaker 2: The price of crude oil also dropped to its lowest level in two months, falling below the $ 95 mark. Also, stocks tend to do better in the months following midterms, regardless of which party wins. It's just a matter of getting things settled and being able to plan for the future. As bad a day as he had on Tuesday, and then the whole world said, yay. And the stock market took it. That can't feel good.
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Speaker 1: No, it can't. Everything went in the right direction. But they also said that, look, he is a smart man when it comes to the economy. He knows what he says and what he doesn't say absolutely drives the stock market. And perhaps he does care about where stocks are. And that will be a part of his legacy. So he probably knew.
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Speaker 2: To shut up. He posted about it, too, was bragging about how the stock market is doing. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, a woman was killed by a gunman. who crashed his vehicle into the Citibank corporate office yesterday. This happened in Tampa. Police say the man drove his car over a median, through a fence, and then into the outdoor seating area of the Citibank campus where more than 3,000 people worked.
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Speaker 2: And you can imagine this if you haven't seen the video, just an outdoor courtyard type place where your employees can go out and sit and have their lunch. That's what he drove into. Now, the gunman shot the woman, got out of his car, went to her and shot her, according to police, proceeded through the campus where he was confronted by and shot by armed security. That gunman later died at the hospital. Robes police have not identified the shooter. They have not identified the victim, but they are investigating this as a target attack. Robes, there's terrifying video. You see this guy walking around with a rifle on this campus. Robes, he had and could have, it appears, fired on many more people, but It appears it was a targeted attack. He did all this to go after one woman at work?
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Speaker 1: My goodness.
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Speaker 2: We need to hear more about that, but two people killed in that. Yeah, no other injuries to report.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run, in the wee hours of the night, Indiana carried out what will be the first of three executions today in the United States. Jeffrey Weisheit. was pronounced dead at 2.45 a.m. 12, 12, 12, 12. Oh, sorry, I meant to say that, and my brain did not actually communicate with my mouth. 12.45 a.m. local time. He had been on death row for the 2010 murders of 8-year-old Alyssa Lynch and her brother, 5-year-old Caleb. Those were his then-girlfriend's children.
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Speaker 2: Now, Weishardt's final meal, this is always interesting to hear, he wanted ribs from Texas Corral, that restaurant, and he wanted a Mountain Dew. Was this final? We haven't heard this one necessarily before. He was asked if he had any final words. He had none. This was the first of three. They were all scheduled for November 5th, but like we said, we talked about this yesterday, Indiana is one of those states. They plan theirs for midnight. They have theirs that say you have to do it before sunrise, and so now the last four executions they've done, that person has been declared dead by 1245 in the morning. They start them at midnight and get them done, and it's over.
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Speaker 1: Yep, and so those two other executions scheduled for today, one in Alabama, one in Florida, both will be taking place at 6 p.m. local time, and they will both be done by lethal injection. We'll have more on those two coming up later in our feed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the first one's going to be in Florida. It's going to be their 19th. Remember, they had, what, 19 last year, so this will tie their record from last year, and then they have two others scheduled for this year, but this is Jesse Guardado. 2004 murderer killed an elderly woman that he was robbing so he is going to be killed in florida later today and then in alabama michael taylor scheduled to be executed with a 1991 double murder of an elderly couple he was 19 at the time so we're at 33 executions in the u.s this year and 18 of them have been.
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Speaker 1: In florida that's crazy.
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Speaker 2: 18 of them have been in florida we uh The Michael Taylor is a really, it's another, all these cases are fascinating backdrops for different reasons. But there are some details about both of these that make these very, once again, fascinating cases. We'll have those for the feed, or in the feed for you a little later.
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Speaker 1: All right, but in the meantime, next up on the run, we head to Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, where a father and his two young children fell to their deaths from a parking garage. And police believe it was not an accident. They are calling it a possible double murder-suicide case. And they believe the dad intentionally killed himself and the kids. We're talking about 42-year-old Patrick Lynch, his 8-year-old son James, and 6-year-old daughter Caroline. They were all found Tuesday. Can you imagine that discovery? They all had injuries from that apparent fall. They were all pronounced dead at the scene. And his wife said on social media that her husband had lost his job back in August, had been struggling with depression... even, this is sad, had a therapy session scheduled for November 4th. That was the day after those deaths.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. But this is a scene of horror, Robes. Yeah, we are going to speak on this in our feed probably a little later today as well. Robes, just these keep adding up. Every morning, It's unbelievable. Every week, I greet you in some way by saying, it's happened again when you walk into this room.
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Speaker 1: I feel like it is about once a week, babe, and that's just so unfortunate. So, yes, we have to keep talking about it.
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Speaker 2: All right. Well, stay with us on this Thursday. Friday.
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Speaker 1: Friday.
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Speaker 2: Morning run. When we come back, Bob. stopped by the Vatican to see Bob. We'll explain this strange meeting that included a really interesting picture. Also, Robes will take us back to the Gilded Age and explain why you need to watch very, very closely to this new season.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, everyone, to your Friday Eve morning run. And next up on the run, we're going to head to the Vatican. Wouldn't that be nice, though, just to jet set to Rome right about now? Well, a certain rock legend was able to do so and got to meet a very cool resident. Pope Leo, yes, had a legendary visitor yesterday. Don't know why, but it was kind of cool and interesting to see Pope Leo and Bob Dylan together. Dylan's currently on a tour through Italy, and according to the Vatican, yeah, he wanted to meet the Pope. And I guess when you're Bob Dylan, you get to say, hey, Pope, can we have a little lunch date?
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Speaker 2: Who do you call? Just a switchboard?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, your people have to call his people, and we're not even on that stratosphere or level, so I wouldn't know. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heart. You call up the Vatican, Rogues and I are going to be in Rome.
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Speaker 1: We'd like to meet the Pope, have him bless a couple of things. But the two took photos. They had a private meeting. It only happened for a couple of minutes. But it's really funny because the Pope is in all white. I mean, that's not shocking. That's what we're typically used to seeing him in. But Bob Dylan was dressed for a funeral. It looked like he was in all black. But like with the rocker's edge, he had a hoodie with the... Look, a lot of times you wear head coverings as a woman. You cover your shoulders. I've been to some other areas of the Vatican. Yes, you have to be covered up.
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Speaker 2: But he seemed... It wasn't that.
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Speaker 1: He looked like a 12-year-old video gamer coming in.
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Speaker 2: But it was weird. He had a black hoodie on, Rose. And the hood was on the whole time. In every picture. He said he looked like a funeral... He was like going to a funeral for a skateboarder.
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Speaker 1: Yes. Yes. They're funny photos, but a cool meeting, the two Bobs, because yes, Pope Leo's first name is Robert, in case you didn't know. We don't say it very often. It's weird to call the Pope Robert or Bob, Bobby, nah.
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Speaker 2: This will be the only time, by the way, just because it went with this, I will not be calling him Bob as we move forward.
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Speaker 1: All right, for the final leg of our run and my favorite story of the day, for fans of the Gilded Age, if you are like me, actually, I have been holding... watching season four's premiere episode. It came out on Sunday. And in fact, it was funny. Yesterday, I didn't tell you this, you were going down to work on your motorcycle. And I thought, ooh, could I squeeze in? How long has it been gone? 20 minutes, 30 minutes of this first episode? And I thought, you know what? No. I don't want to squeeze it in. I want to savor it. So I waited.
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Speaker 2: Do other couples do this? This is really funny. We watch so much together. There are a few things that I'm into that you don't like, a few things you're into that I don't like. And I remember when the He-Man movie came out, it took me a month to watch it because I was just sneaking in 10 minutes when you were in the shower or something.
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Speaker 1: I would come back in and I'd be like, why are you watching He-Man? Like, I'll sit down with you. Like, I would have watched it with you. But you knew that I wouldn't probably enjoy it. It's funny. You and Sabine had a plan possibly to watch the next game. And I then was devising a plan to go into the bedroom and watch the Gilded Age. But you ended up not watching it.
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Speaker 2: So, yes, I did.
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Speaker 1: Long story short, I haven't seen it yet. So I'm excited about this.
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Speaker 3: If you did see it, you still may have missed what we're about to tell you, and you're going to want to go back and watch it because two unlikely stars made a six-second appearance just for the fun of it.
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Speaker 1: This is hilarious. I've seen the pictures. Matt Damon and David Letterman made surprise cameo appearances in... full Victorian garb with top hats and the beards, walking across the street from the Van Ryn home to the Russell home in New York City. And if you are a fan of the show, you know exactly what I'm talking about. It's so cool. I love this show when New York City was just starting to be built by the... you know, the richest of the rich, this new money. And so, yes, the Van Ryans live across from the Russells. And this is just six seconds. And if you blinked, you literally would miss it. The funny story is how this all came about. I wasn't aware of Letterman's obsession with this, but apparently a showrunner for his show, my guest, my next guest needs no introduction with David Letterman. He has a longtime goal of appearing in the background of productions, like just for the fun of it. He likes the idea of it. So His folks approached the Gilded Age producers because they wanted to fit it in with an upcoming episode of his show featuring Matt Damon, who began his career as a background actor. So he thought this was like the perfect combination to have both of them.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good backstory.
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Speaker 1: Right? So the two shows collaborated. The end result is hilarious.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's good.
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Speaker 1: It's not distracting. The Gilded Age just said, like, we'll do this, but we don't want this to be distracting to the storyline. I mean, this is a serious show. It's not a comedy. It's, you know, it's a, I guess, I'm trying to, like, it's a romance, drama, period, drama kind of a show.
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Speaker 2: It's not a lot of comedy.
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Speaker 1: It's not funny.
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Speaker 2: It's not a lot of levity. No, it isn't.
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Speaker 1: But I like this. The Gilded Age executive producer put it like this. It was really one of those rare moments in our business where everyone's having a lot of fun, doing something special, and there was this great authenticity to it that felt very specific to these two shows. And so it just worked. So now I am extra excited about watching episode one of season four.
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Speaker 2: Is the lady from White Lotus, she's still in the show?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I wasn't familiar with her. I love her, White Lotus.
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Speaker 1: Carrie Coon. She is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Incredible. She is Mrs.
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Speaker 1: Russell.
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Speaker 2: I'll watch for her.
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Speaker 1: The acting on this show, just the arc of the show, the stories that they tell, and they really are careful to give it some of its historic... Oh, okay. You just told me to speed up. I was about to get so excited talking about the Gildan Age. I'll move on, but everyone, please check it out. Quote of the day on this Friday Eve from another sports legend. Don't get so caught up in the last thing that went wrong that you miss the opportunity to make the next thing go right. Wayne Gretzky.
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Speaker 2: Wayne. The GOAT. Yes. The legend.
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Speaker 1: It's good to know that even some legends, yes, we all go through these periods of tumult or things that go wrong. I just like getting in the right mindset, and I feel like sports legends like these had to to continue to do what they did every single day.
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Speaker 2: To be great. Who cares? Who worried about the last shot I took that didn't go in? What's the point of that? Need to make this next one. Yeah, their mindset, you have to forget. You have to have short memories, especially in basketball. They play so many games. Yeah, I got to go play tomorrow night. I got to sit here and worry about this. You know, you and I have done this a lot in our careers, have we not? Oh, yes. Show didn't go right. Well, I get a chance to do it tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: That's right. So everybody, don't get so caught up in the last thing that went wrong that you missed the opportunity to make the next thing go right. And with that, everyone, we hope you have a wonderful day on this Thursday. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ Holmes. We'll run soon.