Oct. 28, 2026
(WEDNESDAY) "Morning Run": Alexander Bros' Sentenced, Escaped Murderer Got to IL, Another Bundy Victim, Road Rage Charges Upgraded, Val Back at DWTS, Cruise Passengers Booted, Robach LOVES Baseball, Noah is Sexy, & 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 is Wednesday, October 28th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that sultry start to the morning run.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's the first time I've spoken.
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Speaker 1: All morning? Whoa, I wasn't expecting that. Welcome to the witching hour.
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Speaker 2: It's true, though. Normally, we woke up at the same time, which is rare, and we just were powering through getting morning run ready, and I don't really think I said anything.
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Speaker 1: You haven't spoken all morning?
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Speaker 2: I don't think I have.
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Speaker 1: Wow, so that's how it starts.
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Speaker 2: That's funny. Yes, I start sexy, baby.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you didn't roll over and say, good morning, darling.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't expecting that.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to make sure I speak.
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Speaker 1: Just clear the throat a little bit. Drink a little something. Get it going. Loosen up the vocal cords. I had a whole cup of coffee. Can you imagine starting a morning show, 7 a.m., good morning? Good morning, America. What? It would have been a hot then, so it's a hot now. But hello, everybody. Welcome to this morning run. We got a bunch of stops to make. One of those stops is going to be in Cambodia. where other people have made a stop and they don't want to. That's a hell of a story we'll talk about this morning. Also, we'll be making stops in Marion, Illinois, Florida, California, also in Tampa, Florida in particular. We start, though, with a courtroom, an emotional courtroom yesterday here in New York.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we're going to have more on this in our feed later on, so please look for this because this is a heck of a story. Three brothers who used their New York real estate business, wealth, and social status to traffic women and teenagers for sex. They were sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday. We're talking about 40-year-old Tal Alexander and his twin brothers, 39-year-old Alan and Oren Alexander, were all three convicted back in March on 10 federal counts for sex trafficking, drugging, and raping dozens of women. Well, those brothers and a packed courtroom heard victim impact statements from 11 victims who showed up in court, bravely detailing the effects of being raped by the brothers.
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Speaker 1: One of them, and this was a hell of a line that's getting around because it's powerful, Roach. She said, quote, I carry a quiet funeral within me for the person I might have become if this never happened to me. That's a powerful statement. What could I have been? Someone died that I will never get to know. That's a hell of a statement. Just before sentencing, the Alexander brothers addressed the court. First time any of them had spoken publicly since their arrest. They stopped short of admitting any guilt, instead pleading for mercy while claiming their innocence. I think as close as they got, I see how some might have interpreted this. Something like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like barely their acknowledgement of some pain they may have caused these women. So the judge told them this. How can someone who's never acknowledged the wrong that they did be rehabilitated? And she considered that in her sentencing.
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Speaker 1: That's step one on everything you do. You can't fix a problem. You won't admit there's a problem.
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Speaker 2: Yes. And if you are asking for mercy, but you're not admitting any wrongdoing, how can you possibly be extended that? So she added, I don't refer to people as monsters. Because I believe people have the capacity to change. Even rapists have that capacity. But your conduct was monstrous.
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Speaker 1: It was a female judge, right?
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Speaker 2: Correct. A female judge. Yes. The brothers' attorneys vowed to appeal the conviction. They say this is far from over.
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Speaker 1: What are the other ones? Tate?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Tate brothers, the Alexander brothers.
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Speaker 1: Siblings are cutting up, ain't they?
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Speaker 2: Must have some proud parents around the country.
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Speaker 1: These are sex trafficking brothers.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's disturbing. And they commit, and they, look, these Alexander brothers were all convicted. Some of these girls were as young as 17 years old. I mean, this was heinous. Anyway, what these women had to say, and they were brave to stand up there in that courtroom in front of all those people and say what they did. We'll have much more on this later on.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run here now, the manhunt for a convicted murderer who escaped from a Tennessee prison continues this morning. And it's expanding because it now appears the convict robes got quite a ways from the prison. We talked about this yesterday. He's got a truck. Who knows how far he got?
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Speaker 2: Exactly. Authorities say 28-year-old Jacob Morley escaped. was discovered unaccounted for late Sunday night. He was able to breach a fence. We still don't know how.
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Speaker 1: Unaccounted for and breach are hilarious.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like it's not our fault.
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Speaker 1: He's gone. He busted out through a fence we didn't reinforce.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so he breached the fence. He left the prison, all wearing his inmate uniform, and you see him in surveillance video stealing a truck about an hour later and then just driving away. Well, that truck has now been found, get this, in Illinois. They were talking about Maybe Kentucky and Missouri should be concerned. Illinois. It was left parked at a shopping center in Marion, Illinois, which is about 120 miles from the prison. And by the way, Morley was serving life in prison for first-degree murder.
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Speaker 1: That's a good correction. I wrote this story in the script this morning, and the last line of it says, Morley is serving life in prison. Robe changed that to was.
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Speaker 2: He had been.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, Utah officials have announced, this is a hell of a story, a new confirmed victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. DNA has tied Bundy to the unsolved murder of a Utah teenager more than 50 years after a hunter found her body.
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Speaker 1: And this is the way the prosecutors put it. They say they are satisfied that Bundy was responsible for the killing. of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith. This was back in 1974. He was executed in 89 by electric chair for the murders of two women at the Chi Omega Sorority House at Florida State. He killed at least 30 women and girls in multiple states, but the number of his victims continues to grow with advances in DNA testing. Is this ever? We could go for years, decades, and continue to be piling up victims of certain serial killers based on new DNA evidence and technology.
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Speaker 2: And Bundy in particular, because he went through multiple states, as we know, for those who are familiar with the story. But this is the second time this year that Utah officials connected Bundy to a cold case back in April, if you may remember. They were able to tie Bundy to Laura and Amy, who was also 17, who was found on a hiking trail. And so they've now been able to solve two cold cases. We'll have more on this story later in our feed because this is fascinating what prosecutors have been able to do.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on, this might be another story, Rob, we need to talk about further today because we're getting a lot more details now from newly unsealed court documents. about the so-called People's Court killing. 33-year-old Michelle Parker disappeared in 2011, just hours after an episode of People's Court aired that featured her and her ex-fiance, Dale Smith, fighting over an engagement ring. Again, that was 2011. She disappeared just hours after that episode. To this day, her body has never been found.
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Speaker 2: Now, Smith had always been considered a person of interest, but police were never able to charge him until this month when they say they reexamined evidence and were able to use, yes, advanced technology to comb through digital evidence. Now, according to the newly unsealed documents, police believe Smith choked Parker to death and had felt the People's Court episode was embarrassing. He's pleaded not guilty.
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Speaker 1: A lot more stuff in there for sure, Rose. But we had talked about she was last seen when she went over to his house to drop off the kids, was it? That is when they believe he killed her. Wow.
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Speaker 2: She was never seen again.
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Speaker 1: Never seen again. But the kids were somewhere in the vicinity.
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Speaker 2: My goodness. And he raised those kids.
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Speaker 1: By the way.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he did.
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Speaker 1: What are they, teenage, late teens, something like that? All right. Continuing on the run here now, prosecutors have Upgraded the charges against a retired New York police detective accused of killing a man in a road rage incident on an iconic New York bridge. A grand jury returned an indictment against 62-year-old Victor Romero yesterday.
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Speaker 2: He's now facing a second-degree murder charge. Police say Romero shot Corrin Irvine on the George Washington Bridge last week after Irvine's car and Romero's cars nearly collided when they both tried to go into the same lane. According to authorities, surveillance video shows Romero speeding up Venn to catch Irvine and then firing once into his vehicle. Irvine was hit in the shoulder and then crashed into the median. He later died at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Romero was initially charged with first-degree murder. That was later changed to manslaughter, much to the disappointment of Irvine's family. Well, now the grand jury has returned an indictment of second-degree murder. I guess that falls somewhere in the middle of it, but this is... This is one of those where a split second decision, anger, just in that one moment, you changed everybody's life, including yours. So sad. A dad and a husband. For what? Because you got pissed. You got annoyed. You got freaked out. Maybe you got scared.
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Speaker 2: Split second, maybe. And all of us have been in that situation. He probably didn't even see. He was probably in his blind spot.
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Speaker 1: Happens every day.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't like someone did something to you deliberately. I think that's what's so interesting. People take it personally when it's totally anonymous and everyone's just trying to get home.
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Speaker 1: What was in him? That one split. You just can't let it go. Oops. Something else was going on.
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Speaker 2: It's like that movie with Russell Crowe.
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Speaker 1: You hate it. Unhinged. I love that movie.
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Speaker 2: Because all she did was honk It was a long honk. For him to go when the light was red. But that always scares me. You never know how angry someone is and what's going to set them off. All right. Next up on the run, the FBI raided a Beverly Hills mansion owned by former California gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Stephen Klubeck, all in connection with its criminal investigation into former congressman and gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't heard his name a lot here lately. He was the only name we were hearing for a little while, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: That's true. So if you may remember, just to refresh your memory, yes, the FBI is fully investigating Swalwell for sexual misconduct with at least five women. And this was quite the show. Did you see the pictures?
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Speaker 1: What the hell is going on at this house?
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Speaker 2: It was like they had found... They were going to Saddam Hussein's house. They arrived in armored vehicles. The agents were outfitted in tactical gear. It was like they thought they were going to find a bomb or something. It was bizarre. created quite the show on a very tony drive in Beverly Hills. Can you imagine all the neighbors? Like, what is going on? Yes, all while they were executing this search warrant.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now, Klubeck has said he cut ties with Swalwell, but that the former congressman had stayed at his Beverly Hills mansion before the allegations. The FBI didn't comment on the search, but only said that no arrests were planned in connection with that search. But, Robes, what the hell are you looking for that you need SWAT?
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Speaker 2: It was wild. It was wild. Still would like another more detailed explanation about that. All right, next up on the run, we're going to take you to, well, I guess we'll stay in Los Angeles. This is a little bit of a different story, though. Val Shmirkovsky was back in the ballroom last night proving he's a pro on and off the dance floor. I really thought this was cool. He and judge Carrie Ann Inaba hugged it out in a private moment offstage. Someone's audience cell phone camera captured it, but you could see just the heartfelt, the way he was speaking to her, it really looked like a beautiful reunion.
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Speaker 1: That's how it was captured, though? This was.
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Speaker 2: I saw it looked like someone from the audience was taking the video. People magazine had it up. But Tuesday, last night, marked Val's return after that one-week suspension for that social media post where he made a reference to Will Smith at the Oscars following Inaba's somewhat harsh critique of his wife's samba.
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Speaker 1: So after the show, Val told reporters about the off-camera hug in chat, saying, I think it was really important for me to make sure that she feels safe and knows that firsthand from me, I want nothing less. but love for her. Now, she addressed it not during, nothing was said during the actual episode. That's too bad.
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Speaker 2: No, no. But on Sunday, she actually went on her Instagram stories for the first time and just said, I haven't spoken about what happened because of professional courtesy for those who are still competing, but we actually have standards and practices that keep us separated. But I think a part of this headline has missed a few important parts of what happened. She said that she and Jenna hugged it out. Jenna, that's his wife, that's Val's wife, was a super absolute professional about it. Two women working through the moment. I don't know. She didn't say anything about Val. She didn't say she accepted his apology. She just was defending herself about her Lyft rule and why she was critical of Jenna.
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Speaker 1: What did she say about Val? Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Nothing. So I don't know. But it seemed like she received his hug well.
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Speaker 1: And she was smiling on the show.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Why? Why?
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Speaker 2: She was hurt. She obviously was hurt by it.
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Speaker 1: But not to address Val. He hasn't been addressed by the show, baby.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Wanted to go away. They wanted to go away.
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Speaker 1: But she didn't mention the man.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: That seems intentional, does it not?
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Speaker 2: A hundred percent. A hundred percent. All right.
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Speaker 1: You want to talk about this one later?
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 1: Okay. There's a lot to unpack.
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Speaker 2: We have a lot on the feed coming up because there are so many stories that need further comment.
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Speaker 1: See, this is why we just need to do a live show. We just need to do live, just talk about all this stuff at one time. All right, well, stay with us on this. It's Wednesday morning run. When we come back, hundreds of cruise ship passengers just got told, you got to get the hell off this ship. They are now stranded. We'll explain what's going on there. Also, Robes is very excited that we get more World Series baseball news. explain a very dramatic comeback last night and sexiest man alive. What'd you think?
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to your Wednesday morning run. This is an absolute insane story. Another reason why people are like, I'm not so sure I want to take a cruise. You got norovirus.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing, right? If you hear, that's the concern about a ship.
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Speaker 2: Hontavirus, or what was it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was hontavirus. What happened to those folks? They're just all over now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they all, no one, well, I was going to say no one died, but that's not true. Several people died.
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Speaker 1: Three, right? At least three?
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Speaker 2: All right, well, next up on the run, hundreds of cruise ship passengers just got kicked off Off their cruise, you want to know the reason why?
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Speaker 1: This is insane.
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Speaker 2: They ran out of gas.
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Speaker 1: Can't afford it.
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Speaker 2: I have never heard of this.
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Speaker 1: Can't afford it no more.
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Speaker 2: The ship is the MV Odyssey. It is docked in Cambodia, and it was scheduled to... Depart today.
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Speaker 1: It's not leaving. The passengers were told, you ain't got to go home, but you got to get the hell off this ship. Told to disembark there. Cruise is over. The company claims, Robes, it's unable to offset the rising cost of fuel without increasing the cost to customers. Robes, they explained that it's about maybe up to six to eight thousand dollars per cabin. per passenger they were going to need to charge to offset the cost. They said normally it's only $ 1, 600, $ 1, 800 per cabin is what they assumed for this. Robes, they can't afford it. They just cannot. So what do you do with these people? They said they can't. They tried to incur the cost as a company for a little while. Now they're tapped out. They can't afford it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because guess what? This cruise is a three and a half year cruise. I didn't even know this existed.
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Speaker 1: Existed, yes.
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Speaker 2: But people pay $ 230, 000 to essentially reside on the ship and travel around the world. That's kind of cool.
00:16:03
Speaker 1: To your residence for three and a half years.
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Speaker 2: And so right now they're two years into the journey.
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Speaker 1: Got nowhere to live. What the hell?
00:16:09
Speaker 2: That is crazy.
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Speaker 1: Folks are complaining that the company just dropped them off from like a bus from the dock and dropped them off in the middle of Cambodia somewhere. Good luck. No hotel recommendations. Stranded. And a lot of these people don't have homes probably to go back to.
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Speaker 2: Right, because they planned. They saved all their money, and they figured for three and a half years they didn't need to have a home.
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Speaker 1: That's wild.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. All right, next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: Your first line, TJ wrote this, we get more baseball! With like five exclamation marks. Was that for me?
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Speaker 1: You didn't say it the right way. It was almost sarcastic. We get more baseball! It was kind of a complaining thing. All right, let me do this right. All right, next up on the roll.
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Speaker 2: The world's most boring sport.
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Speaker 1: It's not boring. It's playoff baseball. How's this boring? They went to the 12th inning last night and had to pull off a bottom of the 12th comeback.
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Speaker 2: What happened to the 12th?
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Speaker 1: Bottom of the 12th? They had to make a comeback. Their season is on the line. If we don't score... In this inning, our season is over. And they scored, Robe. That is exciting. That's sports. You love sports. You love college football. You love overtime, a comeback, a last-second field goal.
00:17:11
Speaker 2: I do, because there's action on the field.
00:17:12
Speaker 1: This is action. Okay, folks. The Rays pulled off a very thrilling extra innings comeback last night. I was more excited about it before this. But, yeah, it was game four last night. It would have been a sweep. Had the Milwaukee Brewers won. They were already up three games to none. Appeared poised last night, Robes. Yes, 12th inning, they were up by one, but the Rays managed two runs in the bottom of the 12th. They now extend the series, which means tonight we get a game five. More baseball. Always happy.
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Speaker 2: All right, and finally, on the run, we have the world's, or I guess is it the United States' sexiest man alive? It's the world's.
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Speaker 1: Planet Earth. It's Planet Earth.
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Speaker 2: Okay, People Magazine has announced a throwback, but he is in a very popular and highly acclaimed current series, Noah Wiley. Yeah, I mean, it was a little bit of a shock, but they've been going in this direction, like the dad, the hot dad thing.
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Speaker 1: They did what Paul Rudd one year, didn't they?
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Speaker 2: Yep. And they did John Krasinski another year. So like, kind of like the hot dad thing. And I feel like that's what Noah Wiley is right now.
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Speaker 1: He's like, he's cool. He's 47. He's got a great show that people love.
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Speaker 2: The pit is so good. I've watched it on a plane a couple of times. I keep saying we don't have enough time in the day that I would love to watch this with you. It is phenomenal. It is so well acted and well paced.
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Speaker 1: And that's why he's in that spot. He made some comments, Robesie didn't, obviously never thought he would get this honor, but it was a cool thing. His, uh, His wife says she appreciated it because this is validation that she has good taste. That's a good line.
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Speaker 2: I like how she took it as a compliment. That's amazing.
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Speaker 1: But you went with it. Last year was Jonathan Bailey from Wicked.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
00:18:51
Speaker 1: But then Krasinski was the year before that. Before that, Patrick Dempsey, Chris Evans, Paul Rudd, Michael B. Jordan, John Legend, Idris Elba, Blake Shelton. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, David Beckham, Chris Hemsworth, Adam Levine, Channing Tatum. Lately they have done this, but usually they go with an obvious stud, if you will.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
00:19:09
Speaker 1: But the last few years, yes, they have made some changes. Paul Rudd threw everybody off. But he's funny and funny guys are sexy.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations to Noah Wiley. All right, and for your quote of the day on this Wednesday, it's a little bit of a paragraph, but I liked it. I actually pulled up my Instagram and it was the first thing that hit me this morning. And I was like, you know what? I like it. So just, I just apologize ahead of time. This is a bit of a monologue.
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Speaker 1: This is how you set this up.
00:19:35
Speaker 2: I like it. You're going to love it.
00:19:37
Speaker 1: All right.
00:19:38
Speaker 2: One fucking life. You don't know how long you've got or how long you've got with the people you love. So chase what matters. Forgive where you can. Say the thing. Make the plan. take the risk, go somewhere, love people properly. Stop waiting for a better time to live. This is the time.
00:19:58
Speaker 1: Who the hell said that? Like the Ozzy Osbourne?
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Speaker 2: It's just a thing I follow or it just popped up. You know, they, they know the kind of things I like to follow and they just, when you first pull up your Instagram, and that hit me in the face this morning, and I just thought, damn, hell yeah, it got me fired up this morning.
00:20:15
Speaker 1: Well, let's go get it today, Rhodes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, let's do it. We don't know how long we've got. We've got right now. So everybody, with that, we hope you have a wonderful Wednesday. Thanks for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
00:20:26
Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It is Wednesday, October 28th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't expecting that sultry start to the morning run.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's the first time I've spoken.
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Speaker 1: All morning? Whoa, I wasn't expecting that. Welcome to the witching hour.
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Speaker 2: It's true, though. Normally, we woke up at the same time, which is rare, and we just were powering through getting morning run ready, and I don't really think I said anything.
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Speaker 1: You haven't spoken all morning?
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Speaker 2: I don't think I have.
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Speaker 1: Wow, so that's how it starts.
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Speaker 2: That's funny. Yes, I start sexy, baby.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you didn't roll over and say, good morning, darling.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't expecting that.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to make sure I speak.
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Speaker 1: Just clear the throat a little bit. Drink a little something. Get it going. Loosen up the vocal cords. I had a whole cup of coffee. Can you imagine starting a morning show, 7 a.m., good morning? Good morning, America. What? It would have been a hot then, so it's a hot now. But hello, everybody. Welcome to this morning run. We got a bunch of stops to make. One of those stops is going to be in Cambodia. where other people have made a stop and they don't want to. That's a hell of a story we'll talk about this morning. Also, we'll be making stops in Marion, Illinois, Florida, California, also in Tampa, Florida in particular. We start, though, with a courtroom, an emotional courtroom yesterday here in New York.
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Speaker 2: Yes, we're going to have more on this in our feed later on, so please look for this because this is a heck of a story. Three brothers who used their New York real estate business, wealth, and social status to traffic women and teenagers for sex. They were sentenced to 30 years in federal prison on Tuesday. We're talking about 40-year-old Tal Alexander and his twin brothers, 39-year-old Alan and Oren Alexander, were all three convicted back in March on 10 federal counts for sex trafficking, drugging, and raping dozens of women. Well, those brothers and a packed courtroom heard victim impact statements from 11 victims who showed up in court, bravely detailing the effects of being raped by the brothers.
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Speaker 1: One of them, and this was a hell of a line that's getting around because it's powerful, Roach. She said, quote, I carry a quiet funeral within me for the person I might have become if this never happened to me. That's a powerful statement. What could I have been? Someone died that I will never get to know. That's a hell of a statement. Just before sentencing, the Alexander brothers addressed the court. First time any of them had spoken publicly since their arrest. They stopped short of admitting any guilt, instead pleading for mercy while claiming their innocence. I think as close as they got, I see how some might have interpreted this. Something like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like barely their acknowledgement of some pain they may have caused these women. So the judge told them this. How can someone who's never acknowledged the wrong that they did be rehabilitated? And she considered that in her sentencing.
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Speaker 1: That's step one on everything you do. You can't fix a problem. You won't admit there's a problem.
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Speaker 2: Yes. And if you are asking for mercy, but you're not admitting any wrongdoing, how can you possibly be extended that? So she added, I don't refer to people as monsters. Because I believe people have the capacity to change. Even rapists have that capacity. But your conduct was monstrous.
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Speaker 1: It was a female judge, right?
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Speaker 2: Correct. A female judge. Yes. The brothers' attorneys vowed to appeal the conviction. They say this is far from over.
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Speaker 1: What are the other ones? Tate?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the Tate brothers, the Alexander brothers.
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Speaker 1: Siblings are cutting up, ain't they?
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Speaker 2: Must have some proud parents around the country.
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Speaker 1: These are sex trafficking brothers.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's disturbing. And they commit, and they, look, these Alexander brothers were all convicted. Some of these girls were as young as 17 years old. I mean, this was heinous. Anyway, what these women had to say, and they were brave to stand up there in that courtroom in front of all those people and say what they did. We'll have much more on this later on.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run here now, the manhunt for a convicted murderer who escaped from a Tennessee prison continues this morning. And it's expanding because it now appears the convict robes got quite a ways from the prison. We talked about this yesterday. He's got a truck. Who knows how far he got?
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Speaker 2: Exactly. Authorities say 28-year-old Jacob Morley escaped. was discovered unaccounted for late Sunday night. He was able to breach a fence. We still don't know how.
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Speaker 1: Unaccounted for and breach are hilarious.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like it's not our fault.
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Speaker 1: He's gone. He busted out through a fence we didn't reinforce.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so he breached the fence. He left the prison, all wearing his inmate uniform, and you see him in surveillance video stealing a truck about an hour later and then just driving away. Well, that truck has now been found, get this, in Illinois. They were talking about Maybe Kentucky and Missouri should be concerned. Illinois. It was left parked at a shopping center in Marion, Illinois, which is about 120 miles from the prison. And by the way, Morley was serving life in prison for first-degree murder.
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Speaker 1: That's a good correction. I wrote this story in the script this morning, and the last line of it says, Morley is serving life in prison. Robe changed that to was.
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Speaker 2: He had been.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run, Utah officials have announced, this is a hell of a story, a new confirmed victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. DNA has tied Bundy to the unsolved murder of a Utah teenager more than 50 years after a hunter found her body.
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Speaker 1: And this is the way the prosecutors put it. They say they are satisfied that Bundy was responsible for the killing. of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith. This was back in 1974. He was executed in 89 by electric chair for the murders of two women at the Chi Omega Sorority House at Florida State. He killed at least 30 women and girls in multiple states, but the number of his victims continues to grow with advances in DNA testing. Is this ever? We could go for years, decades, and continue to be piling up victims of certain serial killers based on new DNA evidence and technology.
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Speaker 2: And Bundy in particular, because he went through multiple states, as we know, for those who are familiar with the story. But this is the second time this year that Utah officials connected Bundy to a cold case back in April, if you may remember. They were able to tie Bundy to Laura and Amy, who was also 17, who was found on a hiking trail. And so they've now been able to solve two cold cases. We'll have more on this story later in our feed because this is fascinating what prosecutors have been able to do.
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Speaker 1: Continuing on, this might be another story, Rob, we need to talk about further today because we're getting a lot more details now from newly unsealed court documents. about the so-called People's Court killing. 33-year-old Michelle Parker disappeared in 2011, just hours after an episode of People's Court aired that featured her and her ex-fiance, Dale Smith, fighting over an engagement ring. Again, that was 2011. She disappeared just hours after that episode. To this day, her body has never been found.
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Speaker 2: Now, Smith had always been considered a person of interest, but police were never able to charge him until this month when they say they reexamined evidence and were able to use, yes, advanced technology to comb through digital evidence. Now, according to the newly unsealed documents, police believe Smith choked Parker to death and had felt the People's Court episode was embarrassing. He's pleaded not guilty.
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Speaker 1: A lot more stuff in there for sure, Rose. But we had talked about she was last seen when she went over to his house to drop off the kids, was it? That is when they believe he killed her. Wow.
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Speaker 2: She was never seen again.
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Speaker 1: Never seen again. But the kids were somewhere in the vicinity.
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Speaker 2: My goodness. And he raised those kids.
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Speaker 1: By the way.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he did.
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Speaker 1: What are they, teenage, late teens, something like that? All right. Continuing on the run here now, prosecutors have Upgraded the charges against a retired New York police detective accused of killing a man in a road rage incident on an iconic New York bridge. A grand jury returned an indictment against 62-year-old Victor Romero yesterday.
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Speaker 2: He's now facing a second-degree murder charge. Police say Romero shot Corrin Irvine on the George Washington Bridge last week after Irvine's car and Romero's cars nearly collided when they both tried to go into the same lane. According to authorities, surveillance video shows Romero speeding up Venn to catch Irvine and then firing once into his vehicle. Irvine was hit in the shoulder and then crashed into the median. He later died at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Romero was initially charged with first-degree murder. That was later changed to manslaughter, much to the disappointment of Irvine's family. Well, now the grand jury has returned an indictment of second-degree murder. I guess that falls somewhere in the middle of it, but this is... This is one of those where a split second decision, anger, just in that one moment, you changed everybody's life, including yours. So sad. A dad and a husband. For what? Because you got pissed. You got annoyed. You got freaked out. Maybe you got scared.
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Speaker 2: Split second, maybe. And all of us have been in that situation. He probably didn't even see. He was probably in his blind spot.
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Speaker 1: Happens every day.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't like someone did something to you deliberately. I think that's what's so interesting. People take it personally when it's totally anonymous and everyone's just trying to get home.
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Speaker 1: What was in him? That one split. You just can't let it go. Oops. Something else was going on.
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Speaker 2: It's like that movie with Russell Crowe.
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Speaker 1: You hate it. Unhinged. I love that movie.
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Speaker 2: Because all she did was honk It was a long honk. For him to go when the light was red. But that always scares me. You never know how angry someone is and what's going to set them off. All right. Next up on the run, the FBI raided a Beverly Hills mansion owned by former California gubernatorial candidate and billionaire Stephen Klubeck, all in connection with its criminal investigation into former congressman and gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't heard his name a lot here lately. He was the only name we were hearing for a little while, wasn't it?
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Speaker 2: That's true. So if you may remember, just to refresh your memory, yes, the FBI is fully investigating Swalwell for sexual misconduct with at least five women. And this was quite the show. Did you see the pictures?
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Speaker 1: What the hell is going on at this house?
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Speaker 2: It was like they had found... They were going to Saddam Hussein's house. They arrived in armored vehicles. The agents were outfitted in tactical gear. It was like they thought they were going to find a bomb or something. It was bizarre. created quite the show on a very tony drive in Beverly Hills. Can you imagine all the neighbors? Like, what is going on? Yes, all while they were executing this search warrant.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now, Klubeck has said he cut ties with Swalwell, but that the former congressman had stayed at his Beverly Hills mansion before the allegations. The FBI didn't comment on the search, but only said that no arrests were planned in connection with that search. But, Robes, what the hell are you looking for that you need SWAT?
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Speaker 2: It was wild. It was wild. Still would like another more detailed explanation about that. All right, next up on the run, we're going to take you to, well, I guess we'll stay in Los Angeles. This is a little bit of a different story, though. Val Shmirkovsky was back in the ballroom last night proving he's a pro on and off the dance floor. I really thought this was cool. He and judge Carrie Ann Inaba hugged it out in a private moment offstage. Someone's audience cell phone camera captured it, but you could see just the heartfelt, the way he was speaking to her, it really looked like a beautiful reunion.
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Speaker 1: That's how it was captured, though? This was.
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Speaker 2: I saw it looked like someone from the audience was taking the video. People magazine had it up. But Tuesday, last night, marked Val's return after that one-week suspension for that social media post where he made a reference to Will Smith at the Oscars following Inaba's somewhat harsh critique of his wife's samba.
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Speaker 1: So after the show, Val told reporters about the off-camera hug in chat, saying, I think it was really important for me to make sure that she feels safe and knows that firsthand from me, I want nothing less. but love for her. Now, she addressed it not during, nothing was said during the actual episode. That's too bad.
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Speaker 2: No, no. But on Sunday, she actually went on her Instagram stories for the first time and just said, I haven't spoken about what happened because of professional courtesy for those who are still competing, but we actually have standards and practices that keep us separated. But I think a part of this headline has missed a few important parts of what happened. She said that she and Jenna hugged it out. Jenna, that's his wife, that's Val's wife, was a super absolute professional about it. Two women working through the moment. I don't know. She didn't say anything about Val. She didn't say she accepted his apology. She just was defending herself about her Lyft rule and why she was critical of Jenna.
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Speaker 1: What did she say about Val? Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Nothing. So I don't know. But it seemed like she received his hug well.
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Speaker 1: And she was smiling on the show.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Why? Why?
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Speaker 2: She was hurt. She obviously was hurt by it.
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Speaker 1: But not to address Val. He hasn't been addressed by the show, baby.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 2: Wanted to go away. They wanted to go away.
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Speaker 1: But she didn't mention the man.
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Speaker 2: Nope.
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Speaker 1: That seems intentional, does it not?
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Speaker 2: A hundred percent. A hundred percent. All right.
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Speaker 1: You want to talk about this one later?
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 1: Okay. There's a lot to unpack.
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Speaker 2: We have a lot on the feed coming up because there are so many stories that need further comment.
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Speaker 1: See, this is why we just need to do a live show. We just need to do live, just talk about all this stuff at one time. All right, well, stay with us on this. It's Wednesday morning run. When we come back, hundreds of cruise ship passengers just got told, you got to get the hell off this ship. They are now stranded. We'll explain what's going on there. Also, Robes is very excited that we get more World Series baseball news. explain a very dramatic comeback last night and sexiest man alive. What'd you think?
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to your Wednesday morning run. This is an absolute insane story. Another reason why people are like, I'm not so sure I want to take a cruise. You got norovirus.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing, right? If you hear, that's the concern about a ship.
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Speaker 2: Hontavirus, or what was it?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was hontavirus. What happened to those folks? They're just all over now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they all, no one, well, I was going to say no one died, but that's not true. Several people died.
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Speaker 1: Three, right? At least three?
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Speaker 2: All right, well, next up on the run, hundreds of cruise ship passengers just got kicked off Off their cruise, you want to know the reason why?
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Speaker 1: This is insane.
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Speaker 2: They ran out of gas.
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Speaker 1: Can't afford it.
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Speaker 2: I have never heard of this.
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Speaker 1: Can't afford it no more.
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Speaker 2: The ship is the MV Odyssey. It is docked in Cambodia, and it was scheduled to... Depart today.
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Speaker 1: It's not leaving. The passengers were told, you ain't got to go home, but you got to get the hell off this ship. Told to disembark there. Cruise is over. The company claims, Robes, it's unable to offset the rising cost of fuel without increasing the cost to customers. Robes, they explained that it's about maybe up to six to eight thousand dollars per cabin. per passenger they were going to need to charge to offset the cost. They said normally it's only $ 1, 600, $ 1, 800 per cabin is what they assumed for this. Robes, they can't afford it. They just cannot. So what do you do with these people? They said they can't. They tried to incur the cost as a company for a little while. Now they're tapped out. They can't afford it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, because guess what? This cruise is a three and a half year cruise. I didn't even know this existed.
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Speaker 1: Existed, yes.
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Speaker 2: But people pay $ 230, 000 to essentially reside on the ship and travel around the world. That's kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: To your residence for three and a half years.
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Speaker 2: And so right now they're two years into the journey.
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Speaker 1: Got nowhere to live. What the hell?
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Speaker 2: That is crazy.
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Speaker 1: Folks are complaining that the company just dropped them off from like a bus from the dock and dropped them off in the middle of Cambodia somewhere. Good luck. No hotel recommendations. Stranded. And a lot of these people don't have homes probably to go back to.
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Speaker 2: Right, because they planned. They saved all their money, and they figured for three and a half years they didn't need to have a home.
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Speaker 1: That's wild.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. All right, next up on the run.
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Speaker 2: Your first line, TJ wrote this, we get more baseball! With like five exclamation marks. Was that for me?
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Speaker 1: You didn't say it the right way. It was almost sarcastic. We get more baseball! It was kind of a complaining thing. All right, let me do this right. All right, next up on the roll.
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Speaker 2: The world's most boring sport.
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Speaker 1: It's not boring. It's playoff baseball. How's this boring? They went to the 12th inning last night and had to pull off a bottom of the 12th comeback.
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Speaker 2: What happened to the 12th?
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Speaker 1: Bottom of the 12th? They had to make a comeback. Their season is on the line. If we don't score... In this inning, our season is over. And they scored, Robe. That is exciting. That's sports. You love sports. You love college football. You love overtime, a comeback, a last-second field goal.
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Speaker 2: I do, because there's action on the field.
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Speaker 1: This is action. Okay, folks. The Rays pulled off a very thrilling extra innings comeback last night. I was more excited about it before this. But, yeah, it was game four last night. It would have been a sweep. Had the Milwaukee Brewers won. They were already up three games to none. Appeared poised last night, Robes. Yes, 12th inning, they were up by one, but the Rays managed two runs in the bottom of the 12th. They now extend the series, which means tonight we get a game five. More baseball. Always happy.
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Speaker 2: All right, and finally, on the run, we have the world's, or I guess is it the United States' sexiest man alive? It's the world's.
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Speaker 1: Planet Earth. It's Planet Earth.
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Speaker 2: Okay, People Magazine has announced a throwback, but he is in a very popular and highly acclaimed current series, Noah Wiley. Yeah, I mean, it was a little bit of a shock, but they've been going in this direction, like the dad, the hot dad thing.
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Speaker 1: They did what Paul Rudd one year, didn't they?
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Speaker 2: Yep. And they did John Krasinski another year. So like, kind of like the hot dad thing. And I feel like that's what Noah Wiley is right now.
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Speaker 1: He's like, he's cool. He's 47. He's got a great show that people love.
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Speaker 2: The pit is so good. I've watched it on a plane a couple of times. I keep saying we don't have enough time in the day that I would love to watch this with you. It is phenomenal. It is so well acted and well paced.
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Speaker 1: And that's why he's in that spot. He made some comments, Robesie didn't, obviously never thought he would get this honor, but it was a cool thing. His, uh, His wife says she appreciated it because this is validation that she has good taste. That's a good line.
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Speaker 2: I like how she took it as a compliment. That's amazing.
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Speaker 1: But you went with it. Last year was Jonathan Bailey from Wicked.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: But then Krasinski was the year before that. Before that, Patrick Dempsey, Chris Evans, Paul Rudd, Michael B. Jordan, John Legend, Idris Elba, Blake Shelton. Dwayne The Rock Johnson, David Beckham, Chris Hemsworth, Adam Levine, Channing Tatum. Lately they have done this, but usually they go with an obvious stud, if you will.
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Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 1: But the last few years, yes, they have made some changes. Paul Rudd threw everybody off. But he's funny and funny guys are sexy.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations to Noah Wiley. All right, and for your quote of the day on this Wednesday, it's a little bit of a paragraph, but I liked it. I actually pulled up my Instagram and it was the first thing that hit me this morning. And I was like, you know what? I like it. So just, I just apologize ahead of time. This is a bit of a monologue.
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Speaker 1: This is how you set this up.
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Speaker 2: I like it. You're going to love it.
00:19:37
Speaker 1: All right.
00:19:38
Speaker 2: One fucking life. You don't know how long you've got or how long you've got with the people you love. So chase what matters. Forgive where you can. Say the thing. Make the plan. take the risk, go somewhere, love people properly. Stop waiting for a better time to live. This is the time.
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Speaker 1: Who the hell said that? Like the Ozzy Osbourne?
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Speaker 2: It's just a thing I follow or it just popped up. You know, they, they know the kind of things I like to follow and they just, when you first pull up your Instagram, and that hit me in the face this morning, and I just thought, damn, hell yeah, it got me fired up this morning.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's go get it today, Rhodes.
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Speaker 2: Yes, let's do it. We don't know how long we've got. We've got right now. So everybody, with that, we hope you have a wonderful Wednesday. Thanks for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Run soon.