Oct. 27, 2026
(TUESDAY) "Morning Run": Murderer Escapes, Comey Charged (Again), Comey's Daughter Reinstated, Trump Offers $1M Reward, Pope Hitting The Road, Youth Soccer Drama, Macklemore Back on Stage, SB Halftime Show Set, Word of the Year, & 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 your morning run. It's Tuesday, October 27th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes, and once again, Trump rally descends into talk about asses. Last night, this was a little different. It was Nicki Minaj earlier this week. Has that calmed down?
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Speaker 2: I think so, because she hasn't added to it. She said nothing. She seems like she was okay with it.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she took it as a compliment.
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Speaker 2: Maybe she did.
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Speaker 1: Well, last night, the president in Mississippi, he got heckled. I don't think he appreciated it. In the middle of, he was trying to tell the story and somebody yelled out. I mean, the whole place was quiet. And all you hear is someone say, shove that ballroom up your fat ass. Last night. But like, sweetheart, the huge crowd. The one moment, it is silent. You can hear a pin drop. Because he was about to deliver a punchline of a story. And that's what came out. What happened? Can we get past the midterms, please? Just make it stop. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that is a lighter moment in an otherwise very dirty, ugly midterm election. If we can all have a little laugh.
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Speaker 1: It was silly. It was inappropriate. You shouldn't yell that at your president. Totally wrong. Period. But here we are. How could you argue, though, Roach?
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Speaker 2: He sets the tone, though. Can we just be honest? That's why I feel like it's okay to laugh. Normally, I wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: But when you set a certain tone... If you dish it out, you have to be.
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Speaker 2: Able to take it.
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Speaker 1: Able to take it. All right. Well, folks, as we continue on this Tuesday morning run, I got a bunch of stops to make this morning. We're going to hit up Rome. We'll stop in Winter Park, Florida. Also in Tampa, Florida. We'll make a stop in Atlanta, Dublin, Tiptonville, Tennessee. Also in Englewood, California for the worst kept secret in all of news this week. We'll talk about it out there. But let's start, Robes, in Tennessee. Tennessee. This is serious, and they have a major manhunt on their hands and robes. This ain't just any guy.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: A manhunt is underway in Tennessee for a convicted murderer who, yes, was supposed to spend the rest of his life behind bars, but somehow he escaped.
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Speaker 2: From prison yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Prison officials say they discovered 28-year-old Jacob Morley was unaccounted for around 11.30 p.m.
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Speaker 2: Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: That's a good phrase, unaccounted for. They later determined he was able to get through a prison fence, steal a truck, and drive away. Robes, they have video of this. I've seen it. Plain as day. I mean, it looks like almost he was posing for a high school photo. You could see him so well getting out of there. He is serving life in prison, murder, burglary, evading police, and all kinds of other stuff. Robes, they describe him as 5'11, 240. Kind of a big boy.
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Speaker 2: Big guy.
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Speaker 1: So it should be easy to see ropes. Tennessee needs to get it together. This is the Tennessee Department of Correction. When have you been talking about them recently?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Krista Pike.
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Speaker 3: But also, by the way, do you know they had another inmate escape earlier this week? 63-year-old Gregory Redden, he escaped, he was recaptured a few hours later, but this is their second prison escapee this week.
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Speaker 2: And yes, Krista Pike made a few headlines a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: This is the same Department of Correction we're talking about, Robes. This is a very dangerous guy that's on the run. He is 28 years old, and right now, Robes, he's got a life with no possibility of parole.
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Speaker 2: He has nothing to lose.
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Speaker 1: He's got nothing to lose.
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Speaker 3: Whew. All right, next up on the run, if at first you don't succeed at prosecuting James Comey, try, try again. That apparently is the Trump administration's mantra when it comes to the former FBI director who is now facing his third prosecution.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what we got this time? The DOJ is accusing Comey of leaking classified information that the New York Times used in an article in 2016. Comey denies any wrongdoing. His attorneys initially are going after a statute of limitations. First of all, it's 10 years on this thing, so they're not even trying to address the merits. But Roe, this is embarrassing. How can you not see this as anything other than politically motivated?
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is a misuse of our Justice Department, period. And that should be criminal at this point. And by the way, speaking of Comey, his daughter, who has been also the target of the Trump administration, had a much better day than her father did.
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Speaker 1: No, I wrote it as had a better day than daddy. You didn't read it the way I wrote it, baby. Than her father. It's not colloquial.
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Speaker 2: We speak differently.
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Speaker 1: That's all.
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to put it in my own voice. You know, that's how I roll. A federal judge ruled yesterday that Maureen Comey. Yes, was illegally fired from her job by the Trump administration.
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Speaker 1: So the judge not only says she should be reinstated, said y'all owe us some money. They said she should get back pay for this. But she is being reinstated to the Manhattan office. That's, of course, where most recently and famously she was the prosecutor who headed up the prosecution of Sean McAvoy. Diddy Combs. And at this point, Robes, it looks like the DOJ is going to appeal this judge's decision and still want to fight to keep her out.
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Speaker 3: This is so outrageous. And I looked, she was fired in July. So she has been out of a job for more than three months now.
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Speaker 1: That was immediately after the verdict, right? Yes.
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Speaker 2: My goodness.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: Leave the Comeys alone.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, President Trump is offering a reward. for turning in people who commit voter fraud. What could possibly go wrong here? And what's the reward he's offering? A million dollars?
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 2: Like, what's happening?
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Speaker 1: Rob, this is a little scary because it might be like you're sticking the dogs on.
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Speaker 2: Like vigilante justice.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: So folks, a million dollars, they might actually be thinking in their heads that they're going to possibly get this money.
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Speaker 3: Babe, we watch plenty of crime shows where people will viciously murder people they're supposed.
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Speaker 2: To love for a couple thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: It's true.
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Speaker 2: You got a million dollars on the line?
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Speaker 1: On the line. So he's telling everybody to go out there. There's going to be wrongdoing. You need to keep your eye on. So you're telling everybody to go after and find and hunt down and track down voter fraud. By the way, there has not been any evidence offered of any widespread voter fraud in this country in the past several years. Elections is just not there.
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Speaker 3: Could this have anything to do with the poll numbers that he's denying that show that the Republicans are going to lose big time?
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Speaker 1: All of this is a reaction to that reality that seems to be creeping up. But he wrote this on Truth Social, quote, anybody reporting voter fraud in the past elections or the upcoming 2026 midterm election will be paid $ 1 million upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the fraud. That's scary, baby.
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Speaker 2: This is not okay.
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Speaker 3: Per usual, no specifics about where the money would come from or how anyone could go about actually getting the reward.
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Speaker 2: And remember, if the Republicans.
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Speaker 3: Win, everybody gets $ 5, 000.
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Speaker 2: What is happening?
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Speaker 1: I could get rich if I help these Republicans. I can get the five grand first, and I can get a million if I buy voter fraud.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: All right, continue on the run here now. Just two weeks. Here's some good news, right? Just two weeks after lung cancer surgery, the Vatican announced Pope Leo has been cleared to travel to South America for his previously scheduled 12-day tour. Well, this has to be a good sign. They must feel he's doing pretty well. This is not just a quick trip.
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Speaker 3: No, this is ambitious, and frankly, this is exhausting for anybody. But imagine you're a 71-year-old pope. I mean, think about the attention. Like, you know when you walk into a crowd and you know everybody wants it? That's just an exhausting, mentally exhausting thing. Now put on top of that, 14 flights and 10 cities.
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Speaker 1: Good for him, man.
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Speaker 2: That is incredible.
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Speaker 3: In Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru, he will be attending multiple appearances and religious ceremonies in each of these cities.
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Speaker 2: And of note, he's going to Cusco. And this is one of my.
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Speaker 3: Favorite cities in the world. It's at 12,000 feet in altitude. There is oxygen that has to be pumped into hotel rooms when you visit this city because... it actually takes, I mean, your lungs have to work extra hard to breathe. Having just had lung surgery, that's fairly notable that he's going to this absolutely gorgeous city in Peru, but.
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Speaker 2: That's his home away from home. He spent two decades as a missionary in Peru.
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Speaker 1: Yes, his old stomping ground. I bet he did everything he could. I mean, doctors are not going to let him go if they think there's a risk, but he really, really wants to make this trip.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and he did release a statement about how meaningful... This trip will be to him as Pope. I am looking forward to returning to the continent where I experienced so many moments of my life.
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Speaker 1: Good for him. Good for him. God is here. He's doing well. We were nervous there for a second.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: All right, continuing on the run here now. This is the story everybody is talking about and has an opinion about. Florida police called to a youth soccer game over the weekend for what's described as a disturbance. That disturbance, according to one family, is that their black son was too good at soccer and was dominating the older white kids he was playing against. And yes, Robes, a 911 call was made.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 3: The story has sparked outrage and certainly heated debate online. It all happened in Winter Park, where the organizers of a youth soccer league called 911 to report that a family became argumentative when their child was taken out of the game. But police body cam video and video of the game tells a different story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the organizers, you can see, telling officers that the kid is pushing the other kids. And that is why, right? They tell the officers the kid is not being a good sportsman. He's pushing other kids. So that's why they want him out. They also said the parents became argumentative. However, body cam video shows the mother telling police, quote, they're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer. They're literally kicking out of this place because he's good at soccer. You've seen this video. It's all over the place. The kid is bordering on being a phenom. He's three and he is out there running around them like they're not even there controlling this soccer ball. It is. Like he's bordering on something pretty special. Robes, the mom posted the entire video of the game. You don't see him pushing anybody.
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Speaker 2: Wow. I have chills. That's awful.
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Speaker 1: You don't see any of that. Now, they want to make an argument that the family was argumentative or whatever on the sideline. That's just not shown anywhere. The family did leave the park. They say they're going to give them a refund. Robes, this is your heart sinks. Your heart sinks. This is a little black boy who at three years old had the police called on him. So I just stop and give it some thought. Sometimes we have different experiences in this country. Most people go their whole lives and never have an interaction with police. This is a young black boy who's going to become a black man in a country that at three, 911 called and police came and got him.
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Speaker 2: 911.
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Speaker 1: Police came and got him. He starts his life like that. That's the scariest and worst part of this story. We're going to have more on this in a little bit in the debate that's raging on. But babe, we've got to treat each other better.
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Speaker 3: We do.
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Speaker 2: There's another way to handle this other than calling in police.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of treating each other better, next up on the run, six weeks after rapper Macklemore was dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour for his pro-Palestine comments, he was back on stage in Dublin in a big way for the opening night of his free Palestine tour.
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Speaker 2: He was joined by Hozier. Apparently that was just like an unbelievable performance. And Ed Sheeran's former house band.
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Speaker 1: The folks we saw?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: He brought.
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Speaker 3: They were with Macklemore, along with several other artists.
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Speaker 2: They're all on stage with him.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they're Irish. That's right. He was in Dublin. Okay, he addressed what happened after the MetLife concert, saying, six weeks ago, it was two words. Two words is all that it took. Two words that are rooted in love and liberation, not against anybody, not divisive, not a call for hatred, but a call to recognize our shared humanity. Free Palestine. I said free Palestine. This looked like this went off Well, the energy there seemed just kind of incredible. Maybe something good and positive is coming out of this. I don't know, babe.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and look, this was his first of three concerts. His next ones are in Paris and in London, and all proceeds from the concerts go to 12 organizations that support Palestinians.
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Speaker 2: So how can you be mad at that?
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Speaker 1: All right, continuing on the run here now. Rose, this was a pretty amazing medical first. I don't know how I would feel about it if I was the patient, but a doctor has used a robot. to perform surgery on a man who was 35 miles away from him while this surgery was going on. This robes is believed to be the first, as they call it, telesurgery ever performed in the US.
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Speaker 3: And when you think about where this robot was operating, I don't know many men in the world who would have been okay with this.
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Speaker 2: But yes, Dr.
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Speaker 3: Vipul Patel used a robotic system from his office near Orlando to control the surgical tools remotely and remove a man's prostate that was 35 miles away in Manola, Florida. That patient is said to be doing well. 35 miles isn't that far away. No one could get to and from, or is this.
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Speaker 1: I think this is just a practice run.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: That's a hell of a practice run. But can you do this with somebody? They're in California. Can you do this? This is incredible.
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Speaker 2: That's frightening, though. Like, all the things that could go wrong.
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Speaker 1: Like what?
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Speaker 3: The surgeon, like the, what is it, the scalpel gets caught and they can't get it to pull up or it goes in the wrong place.
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Speaker 1: It's electronics, man. They go wrong.
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Speaker 2: No, thank you.
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Speaker 1: But hey, I applaud it. That's impressive. This is where medicine is going. Robes, what if you can then start providing this type of thing to people in all kinds of remote.
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Speaker 3: Areas all over the world?
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Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.
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Speaker 1: The potential is incredible, baby.
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Speaker 3: If it's that or you don't get surgery, obviously this would be a benefit. But I just think that was, I guess it was a practice run. 30 miles away.
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Speaker 1: Just drive over, man.
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Speaker 3: Great.
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Speaker 1: All right. Stay with us. On this Tuesday morning run, when we come back, the worst kept secret in the world, who is going to be the Super Bowl halftime reporter, reporter, halftime performer. It has now been made official. Also, a couple of interesting sports notes, one having to do with the Milwaukee Brewers, who are making quick work of the World Series. The other having to do with the Atlanta dream of the WNBA. They're going to be playing a matinee, if you will. And we are getting our first of what will be several words of the year.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to your Tuesday morning run and next up on the run. Yes, it's been rumored and reported on for days now, but now it is official. Jay-Z is going to headline next year's Super Bowl halftime show.
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Speaker 1: He's been partnering with the league, as we know. He's been picking the halftime performer for the past several, well, since 2019, but this is the first time now he's picked himself. He's had a big 30-year anniversary concert tour that he's been on, so he's been a really big A big year for them. So obviously, we're going to get Beyonce.
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Speaker 2: Obviously.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, we're going to get Blue Ivy.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be a family affair at the halftime. That's kind of cool. Damn, babe. Bad Bunny last year. They're already coming after Jay-Z. I mean, it's just, they're complaining about we need a white performer. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I can see why, you know, we need another white performer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Maybe Jay-Z will have Macklemore come.
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Speaker 1: I doubt we'll see that.
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Speaker 2: See how that goes.
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Speaker 1: I doubt we'll see that.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Double booked itself for this Thursday. Oopsies.
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Speaker 3: And that could force the WNBA to crown a champion at lunchtime?
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Speaker 1: This is crazy. This is crazy. Golden State Valkyries are up three games to two over the Atlanta Dream. Game six is Thursday robed in State Farm Arena right there in downtown Atlanta. Here's the problem. The NBA's Atlanta Hawks play there. That's their home arena. They have a regular season game scheduled for that night. So what do you do, Robes, in that situation? What they have done is made the decision to change tip-off time from game six to 1230 Eastern in the afternoon. Robes, Golden State Valkyries, their fans on the West Coast, are going to have to watch that game at 930 in the morning.
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Speaker 2: That is going to cause some... Some upset folks.
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Speaker 1: You know what's the right thing to do? They've had a bunch of scheduling issues in the WNBA. This is one they need to take care of. You can't. It's disrespectful to the league. It's disrespectful that they have to keep making adjustments in their schedules to come here. They had to switch a day of one of them because stuff gets double booked. This is showing that they are not the priority.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think they already knew that. And now it's confirmed. And yes, I think it stings.
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Speaker 1: I don't like this. You know what I wish Atlanta Hawks would have done? Flipped it. You know what? This is you all's finals. This is a regular season. We'll play at 1230 in the afternoon.
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Speaker 2: That would have been remarkable.
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Speaker 1: You guys take the prime spot.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, you want women.
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Speaker 3: And there are plenty of obviously female fans for the NBA. But that's just such a respectful nod to women. Just the fact that we appreciate and respect what you all do and how far you all have come, that would have gone a long way. Honestly, as a female, I would want to watch the Atlanta Hawks and cheer them on even more if they did that. I hate to even use this term, but in a sense, it is gentlemanly.
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Speaker 1: I get what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? And it was a respect thing.
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Speaker 1: That would be so much. It would go so far. This is their finals, baby.
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Speaker 2: This would go a long way with fans.
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Speaker 1: It's such an opportunity. Logistically, I don't know what's possible in that matter. And by the way, the Atlanta Dream play at a different arena, a smaller one, during the regular season. But it only holds up to 4,000 people. So now WNBA finals, they've been selling out arenas. You need a bigger spot. I wish, and I don't know if it's possible now, But that switch would be awesome. The Hawks to say, you guys take the prime spot. Ah, we'll see. Turn to the World Series now. If you haven't seen the game, you better hurry up because it might be over in a blink of an eye. The Tampa Bay Rays are now down 3-0 to the Milwaukee Brewers, who haven't won a championship ever, but they haven't been in the World Series since 82, I believe, is the year. So last night, Milwaukee unloaded. On the Tampa Bay Rays, 10-1. Game four tonight, and the World Series could be over this evening. Did you watch last night? No, no, no. I fell asleep. Yeah, it was... The fifth inning, I think they scored eight runs. I missed it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 3: Because I obviously, you and I both know this, fell asleep almost right away. We always start out watching a movie. And as soon as I start to fall asleep, I see you take the remote and start switching it to sports. Yes.
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Speaker 2: So I figured that's what you were watching.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I was watching the Cowboys. It was a Monday night game.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys-Eagles.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, here he goes. All right.
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Speaker 3: And for the final leg of our run, the word of the year has just been announced.
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Speaker 1: Huh?
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Speaker 2: It's only October. October.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, we're going to get several more from several other outlets, but this one is from dictionary.com.
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Speaker 1: Makes sense? Yes. Does it make sense to you? Maxing. Maxing. You're maxing your, what's the, looks maxing and all kinds of math.
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Speaker 2: There's all sorts of tan maxing.
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Speaker 1: This is how they put it. Quote, maxing is a word that refers to the practice of pursuing an activity to the fullest or optimizing a certain aspect of your life. It can be used on its own, but it's especially common when it combines with other words to make new creations like... looks maxing, token maxing, and Nona maxing. I didn't know that one.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's about being like your Nona, your grandma.
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Speaker 3: Bettering one's life by adopting the habits of an Italian grandmother.
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Speaker 2: Nona maxing, I've never heard of that.
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Speaker 1: I can't get mad at this one. The word has been everywhere, annoyingly so. So this does make sense.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it reads.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Quote of the day on this Tuesday. This one comes from Albert Einstein.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Am I going to be able to comprehend? He's a smart guy here.
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. And I like that because a lot of us resist it. A lot of us are afraid of it. A lot of us have a hard time dealing with it. And I just think that's such a cool way to look at it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you can.
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Speaker 3: And it does mark a certain level of intellect that you're able to adapt.
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Speaker 2: The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. We all have to pivot sometimes when we don't want to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you're forced to make that change. You should probably make it before you're forced. It's a lot more painful when you're forced to.
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Speaker 3: That is so true. And with that, everyone, embrace change. Thank you for running with us on this Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Talk soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It's Tuesday, October 27th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes, and once again, Trump rally descends into talk about asses. Last night, this was a little different. It was Nicki Minaj earlier this week. Has that calmed down?
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Speaker 2: I think so, because she hasn't added to it. She said nothing. She seems like she was okay with it.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she took it as a compliment.
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Speaker 2: Maybe she did.
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Speaker 1: Well, last night, the president in Mississippi, he got heckled. I don't think he appreciated it. In the middle of, he was trying to tell the story and somebody yelled out. I mean, the whole place was quiet. And all you hear is someone say, shove that ballroom up your fat ass. Last night. But like, sweetheart, the huge crowd. The one moment, it is silent. You can hear a pin drop. Because he was about to deliver a punchline of a story. And that's what came out. What happened? Can we get past the midterms, please? Just make it stop. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that is a lighter moment in an otherwise very dirty, ugly midterm election. If we can all have a little laugh.
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Speaker 1: It was silly. It was inappropriate. You shouldn't yell that at your president. Totally wrong. Period. But here we are. How could you argue, though, Roach?
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Speaker 2: He sets the tone, though. Can we just be honest? That's why I feel like it's okay to laugh. Normally, I wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: But when you set a certain tone... If you dish it out, you have to be.
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Speaker 2: Able to take it.
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Speaker 1: Able to take it. All right. Well, folks, as we continue on this Tuesday morning run, I got a bunch of stops to make this morning. We're going to hit up Rome. We'll stop in Winter Park, Florida. Also in Tampa, Florida. We'll make a stop in Atlanta, Dublin, Tiptonville, Tennessee. Also in Englewood, California for the worst kept secret in all of news this week. We'll talk about it out there. But let's start, Robes, in Tennessee. Tennessee. This is serious, and they have a major manhunt on their hands and robes. This ain't just any guy.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 3: A manhunt is underway in Tennessee for a convicted murderer who, yes, was supposed to spend the rest of his life behind bars, but somehow he escaped.
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Speaker 2: From prison yesterday.
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Speaker 3: Prison officials say they discovered 28-year-old Jacob Morley was unaccounted for around 11.30 p.m.
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Speaker 2: Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: That's a good phrase, unaccounted for. They later determined he was able to get through a prison fence, steal a truck, and drive away. Robes, they have video of this. I've seen it. Plain as day. I mean, it looks like almost he was posing for a high school photo. You could see him so well getting out of there. He is serving life in prison, murder, burglary, evading police, and all kinds of other stuff. Robes, they describe him as 5'11, 240. Kind of a big boy.
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Speaker 2: Big guy.
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Speaker 1: So it should be easy to see ropes. Tennessee needs to get it together. This is the Tennessee Department of Correction. When have you been talking about them recently?
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Speaker 2: Yes, Krista Pike.
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Speaker 3: But also, by the way, do you know they had another inmate escape earlier this week? 63-year-old Gregory Redden, he escaped, he was recaptured a few hours later, but this is their second prison escapee this week.
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Speaker 2: And yes, Krista Pike made a few headlines a couple weeks ago.
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Speaker 1: This is the same Department of Correction we're talking about, Robes. This is a very dangerous guy that's on the run. He is 28 years old, and right now, Robes, he's got a life with no possibility of parole.
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Speaker 2: He has nothing to lose.
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Speaker 1: He's got nothing to lose.
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Speaker 3: Whew. All right, next up on the run, if at first you don't succeed at prosecuting James Comey, try, try again. That apparently is the Trump administration's mantra when it comes to the former FBI director who is now facing his third prosecution.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what we got this time? The DOJ is accusing Comey of leaking classified information that the New York Times used in an article in 2016. Comey denies any wrongdoing. His attorneys initially are going after a statute of limitations. First of all, it's 10 years on this thing, so they're not even trying to address the merits. But Roe, this is embarrassing. How can you not see this as anything other than politically motivated?
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Speaker 3: Yes, this is a misuse of our Justice Department, period. And that should be criminal at this point. And by the way, speaking of Comey, his daughter, who has been also the target of the Trump administration, had a much better day than her father did.
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Speaker 1: No, I wrote it as had a better day than daddy. You didn't read it the way I wrote it, baby. Than her father. It's not colloquial.
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Speaker 2: We speak differently.
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Speaker 1: That's all.
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Speaker 4: I'm just trying to put it in my own voice. You know, that's how I roll. A federal judge ruled yesterday that Maureen Comey. Yes, was illegally fired from her job by the Trump administration.
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Speaker 1: So the judge not only says she should be reinstated, said y'all owe us some money. They said she should get back pay for this. But she is being reinstated to the Manhattan office. That's, of course, where most recently and famously she was the prosecutor who headed up the prosecution of Sean McAvoy. Diddy Combs. And at this point, Robes, it looks like the DOJ is going to appeal this judge's decision and still want to fight to keep her out.
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Speaker 3: This is so outrageous. And I looked, she was fired in July. So she has been out of a job for more than three months now.
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Speaker 1: That was immediately after the verdict, right? Yes.
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Speaker 2: My goodness.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 2: Leave the Comeys alone.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, President Trump is offering a reward. for turning in people who commit voter fraud. What could possibly go wrong here? And what's the reward he's offering? A million dollars?
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 2: Like, what's happening?
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Speaker 1: Rob, this is a little scary because it might be like you're sticking the dogs on.
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Speaker 2: Like vigilante justice.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: So folks, a million dollars, they might actually be thinking in their heads that they're going to possibly get this money.
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Speaker 3: Babe, we watch plenty of crime shows where people will viciously murder people they're supposed.
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Speaker 2: To love for a couple thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: It's true.
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Speaker 2: You got a million dollars on the line?
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Speaker 1: On the line. So he's telling everybody to go out there. There's going to be wrongdoing. You need to keep your eye on. So you're telling everybody to go after and find and hunt down and track down voter fraud. By the way, there has not been any evidence offered of any widespread voter fraud in this country in the past several years. Elections is just not there.
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Speaker 3: Could this have anything to do with the poll numbers that he's denying that show that the Republicans are going to lose big time?
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Speaker 1: All of this is a reaction to that reality that seems to be creeping up. But he wrote this on Truth Social, quote, anybody reporting voter fraud in the past elections or the upcoming 2026 midterm election will be paid $ 1 million upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the fraud. That's scary, baby.
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Speaker 2: This is not okay.
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Speaker 3: Per usual, no specifics about where the money would come from or how anyone could go about actually getting the reward.
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Speaker 2: And remember, if the Republicans.
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Speaker 3: Win, everybody gets $ 5, 000.
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Speaker 2: What is happening?
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Speaker 1: I could get rich if I help these Republicans. I can get the five grand first, and I can get a million if I buy voter fraud.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: All right, continue on the run here now. Just two weeks. Here's some good news, right? Just two weeks after lung cancer surgery, the Vatican announced Pope Leo has been cleared to travel to South America for his previously scheduled 12-day tour. Well, this has to be a good sign. They must feel he's doing pretty well. This is not just a quick trip.
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Speaker 3: No, this is ambitious, and frankly, this is exhausting for anybody. But imagine you're a 71-year-old pope. I mean, think about the attention. Like, you know when you walk into a crowd and you know everybody wants it? That's just an exhausting, mentally exhausting thing. Now put on top of that, 14 flights and 10 cities.
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Speaker 1: Good for him, man.
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Speaker 2: That is incredible.
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Speaker 3: In Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru, he will be attending multiple appearances and religious ceremonies in each of these cities.
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Speaker 2: And of note, he's going to Cusco. And this is one of my.
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Speaker 3: Favorite cities in the world. It's at 12,000 feet in altitude. There is oxygen that has to be pumped into hotel rooms when you visit this city because... it actually takes, I mean, your lungs have to work extra hard to breathe. Having just had lung surgery, that's fairly notable that he's going to this absolutely gorgeous city in Peru, but.
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Speaker 2: That's his home away from home. He spent two decades as a missionary in Peru.
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Speaker 1: Yes, his old stomping ground. I bet he did everything he could. I mean, doctors are not going to let him go if they think there's a risk, but he really, really wants to make this trip.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, and he did release a statement about how meaningful... This trip will be to him as Pope. I am looking forward to returning to the continent where I experienced so many moments of my life.
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Speaker 1: Good for him. Good for him. God is here. He's doing well. We were nervous there for a second.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: All right, continuing on the run here now. This is the story everybody is talking about and has an opinion about. Florida police called to a youth soccer game over the weekend for what's described as a disturbance. That disturbance, according to one family, is that their black son was too good at soccer and was dominating the older white kids he was playing against. And yes, Robes, a 911 call was made.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 3: The story has sparked outrage and certainly heated debate online. It all happened in Winter Park, where the organizers of a youth soccer league called 911 to report that a family became argumentative when their child was taken out of the game. But police body cam video and video of the game tells a different story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the organizers, you can see, telling officers that the kid is pushing the other kids. And that is why, right? They tell the officers the kid is not being a good sportsman. He's pushing other kids. So that's why they want him out. They also said the parents became argumentative. However, body cam video shows the mother telling police, quote, they're mad at my son because he actually plays soccer. They're literally kicking out of this place because he's good at soccer. You've seen this video. It's all over the place. The kid is bordering on being a phenom. He's three and he is out there running around them like they're not even there controlling this soccer ball. It is. Like he's bordering on something pretty special. Robes, the mom posted the entire video of the game. You don't see him pushing anybody.
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Speaker 2: Wow. I have chills. That's awful.
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Speaker 1: You don't see any of that. Now, they want to make an argument that the family was argumentative or whatever on the sideline. That's just not shown anywhere. The family did leave the park. They say they're going to give them a refund. Robes, this is your heart sinks. Your heart sinks. This is a little black boy who at three years old had the police called on him. So I just stop and give it some thought. Sometimes we have different experiences in this country. Most people go their whole lives and never have an interaction with police. This is a young black boy who's going to become a black man in a country that at three, 911 called and police came and got him.
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Speaker 2: 911.
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Speaker 1: Police came and got him. He starts his life like that. That's the scariest and worst part of this story. We're going to have more on this in a little bit in the debate that's raging on. But babe, we've got to treat each other better.
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Speaker 3: We do.
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Speaker 2: There's another way to handle this other than calling in police.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Speaking of treating each other better, next up on the run, six weeks after rapper Macklemore was dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour for his pro-Palestine comments, he was back on stage in Dublin in a big way for the opening night of his free Palestine tour.
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Speaker 2: He was joined by Hozier. Apparently that was just like an unbelievable performance. And Ed Sheeran's former house band.
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Speaker 1: The folks we saw?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: He brought.
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Speaker 3: They were with Macklemore, along with several other artists.
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Speaker 2: They're all on stage with him.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they're Irish. That's right. He was in Dublin. Okay, he addressed what happened after the MetLife concert, saying, six weeks ago, it was two words. Two words is all that it took. Two words that are rooted in love and liberation, not against anybody, not divisive, not a call for hatred, but a call to recognize our shared humanity. Free Palestine. I said free Palestine. This looked like this went off Well, the energy there seemed just kind of incredible. Maybe something good and positive is coming out of this. I don't know, babe.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and look, this was his first of three concerts. His next ones are in Paris and in London, and all proceeds from the concerts go to 12 organizations that support Palestinians.
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Speaker 2: So how can you be mad at that?
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Speaker 1: All right, continuing on the run here now. Rose, this was a pretty amazing medical first. I don't know how I would feel about it if I was the patient, but a doctor has used a robot. to perform surgery on a man who was 35 miles away from him while this surgery was going on. This robes is believed to be the first, as they call it, telesurgery ever performed in the US.
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Speaker 3: And when you think about where this robot was operating, I don't know many men in the world who would have been okay with this.
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Speaker 2: But yes, Dr.
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Speaker 3: Vipul Patel used a robotic system from his office near Orlando to control the surgical tools remotely and remove a man's prostate that was 35 miles away in Manola, Florida. That patient is said to be doing well. 35 miles isn't that far away. No one could get to and from, or is this.
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Speaker 1: I think this is just a practice run.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 1: That's a hell of a practice run. But can you do this with somebody? They're in California. Can you do this? This is incredible.
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Speaker 2: That's frightening, though. Like, all the things that could go wrong.
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Speaker 1: Like what?
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Speaker 3: The surgeon, like the, what is it, the scalpel gets caught and they can't get it to pull up or it goes in the wrong place.
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Speaker 1: It's electronics, man. They go wrong.
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Speaker 2: No, thank you.
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Speaker 1: But hey, I applaud it. That's impressive. This is where medicine is going. Robes, what if you can then start providing this type of thing to people in all kinds of remote.
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Speaker 3: Areas all over the world?
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Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking.
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Speaker 1: The potential is incredible, baby.
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Speaker 3: If it's that or you don't get surgery, obviously this would be a benefit. But I just think that was, I guess it was a practice run. 30 miles away.
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Speaker 1: Just drive over, man.
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Speaker 3: Great.
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Speaker 1: All right. Stay with us. On this Tuesday morning run, when we come back, the worst kept secret in the world, who is going to be the Super Bowl halftime reporter, reporter, halftime performer. It has now been made official. Also, a couple of interesting sports notes, one having to do with the Milwaukee Brewers, who are making quick work of the World Series. The other having to do with the Atlanta dream of the WNBA. They're going to be playing a matinee, if you will. And we are getting our first of what will be several words of the year.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back to your Tuesday morning run and next up on the run. Yes, it's been rumored and reported on for days now, but now it is official. Jay-Z is going to headline next year's Super Bowl halftime show.
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Speaker 1: He's been partnering with the league, as we know. He's been picking the halftime performer for the past several, well, since 2019, but this is the first time now he's picked himself. He's had a big 30-year anniversary concert tour that he's been on, so he's been a really big A big year for them. So obviously, we're going to get Beyonce.
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Speaker 2: Obviously.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, we're going to get Blue Ivy.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be a family affair at the halftime. That's kind of cool. Damn, babe. Bad Bunny last year. They're already coming after Jay-Z. I mean, it's just, they're complaining about we need a white performer. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 2: I can see why, you know, we need another white performer.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Maybe Jay-Z will have Macklemore come.
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Speaker 1: I doubt we'll see that.
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Speaker 2: See how that goes.
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Speaker 1: I doubt we'll see that.
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Speaker 2: All right, next up on the run, State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Double booked itself for this Thursday. Oopsies.
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Speaker 3: And that could force the WNBA to crown a champion at lunchtime?
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Speaker 1: This is crazy. This is crazy. Golden State Valkyries are up three games to two over the Atlanta Dream. Game six is Thursday robed in State Farm Arena right there in downtown Atlanta. Here's the problem. The NBA's Atlanta Hawks play there. That's their home arena. They have a regular season game scheduled for that night. So what do you do, Robes, in that situation? What they have done is made the decision to change tip-off time from game six to 1230 Eastern in the afternoon. Robes, Golden State Valkyries, their fans on the West Coast, are going to have to watch that game at 930 in the morning.
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Speaker 2: That is going to cause some... Some upset folks.
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Speaker 1: You know what's the right thing to do? They've had a bunch of scheduling issues in the WNBA. This is one they need to take care of. You can't. It's disrespectful to the league. It's disrespectful that they have to keep making adjustments in their schedules to come here. They had to switch a day of one of them because stuff gets double booked. This is showing that they are not the priority.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think they already knew that. And now it's confirmed. And yes, I think it stings.
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Speaker 1: I don't like this. You know what I wish Atlanta Hawks would have done? Flipped it. You know what? This is you all's finals. This is a regular season. We'll play at 1230 in the afternoon.
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Speaker 2: That would have been remarkable.
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Speaker 1: You guys take the prime spot.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, you want women.
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Speaker 3: And there are plenty of obviously female fans for the NBA. But that's just such a respectful nod to women. Just the fact that we appreciate and respect what you all do and how far you all have come, that would have gone a long way. Honestly, as a female, I would want to watch the Atlanta Hawks and cheer them on even more if they did that. I hate to even use this term, but in a sense, it is gentlemanly.
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Speaker 1: I get what you're saying.
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying? And it was a respect thing.
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Speaker 1: That would be so much. It would go so far. This is their finals, baby.
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Speaker 2: This would go a long way with fans.
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Speaker 1: It's such an opportunity. Logistically, I don't know what's possible in that matter. And by the way, the Atlanta Dream play at a different arena, a smaller one, during the regular season. But it only holds up to 4,000 people. So now WNBA finals, they've been selling out arenas. You need a bigger spot. I wish, and I don't know if it's possible now, But that switch would be awesome. The Hawks to say, you guys take the prime spot. Ah, we'll see. Turn to the World Series now. If you haven't seen the game, you better hurry up because it might be over in a blink of an eye. The Tampa Bay Rays are now down 3-0 to the Milwaukee Brewers, who haven't won a championship ever, but they haven't been in the World Series since 82, I believe, is the year. So last night, Milwaukee unloaded. On the Tampa Bay Rays, 10-1. Game four tonight, and the World Series could be over this evening. Did you watch last night? No, no, no. I fell asleep. Yeah, it was... The fifth inning, I think they scored eight runs. I missed it.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 3: Because I obviously, you and I both know this, fell asleep almost right away. We always start out watching a movie. And as soon as I start to fall asleep, I see you take the remote and start switching it to sports. Yes.
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Speaker 2: So I figured that's what you were watching.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I was watching the Cowboys. It was a Monday night game.
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Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys-Eagles.
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Speaker 3: I know.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, here he goes. All right.
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Speaker 3: And for the final leg of our run, the word of the year has just been announced.
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Speaker 1: Huh?
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Speaker 2: It's only October. October.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, we're going to get several more from several other outlets, but this one is from dictionary.com.
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Speaker 1: Makes sense? Yes. Does it make sense to you? Maxing. Maxing. You're maxing your, what's the, looks maxing and all kinds of math.
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Speaker 2: There's all sorts of tan maxing.
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Speaker 1: This is how they put it. Quote, maxing is a word that refers to the practice of pursuing an activity to the fullest or optimizing a certain aspect of your life. It can be used on its own, but it's especially common when it combines with other words to make new creations like... looks maxing, token maxing, and Nona maxing. I didn't know that one.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It's about being like your Nona, your grandma.
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Speaker 3: Bettering one's life by adopting the habits of an Italian grandmother.
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Speaker 2: Nona maxing, I've never heard of that.
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Speaker 1: I can't get mad at this one. The word has been everywhere, annoyingly so. So this does make sense.
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Speaker 3: Yes, it reads.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Quote of the day on this Tuesday. This one comes from Albert Einstein.
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Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Am I going to be able to comprehend? He's a smart guy here.
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Speaker 2: I think so.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. And I like that because a lot of us resist it. A lot of us are afraid of it. A lot of us have a hard time dealing with it. And I just think that's such a cool way to look at it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, you can.
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Speaker 3: And it does mark a certain level of intellect that you're able to adapt.
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Speaker 2: The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. We all have to pivot sometimes when we don't want to.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sometimes you're forced to make that change. You should probably make it before you're forced. It's a lot more painful when you're forced to.
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Speaker 3: That is so true. And with that, everyone, embrace change. Thank you for running with us on this Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Talk soon.