(Wednesday) Morning Run: Midterm Blue Tsunami, Trump Blames Fox, Florida Plane Crash, Brooklyn Runner Murder, Tennessee Prisoner Recaptured, Florida New Execution, RIP John Frieda and “Mogging” Word Of The Year

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 3: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run. It is Wednesday, November 4th.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.

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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes, and the drama wasn't that much drama last night for the midterms. Yes, Rose, a lot of people did go to sleep early on some of the returns, but not a lot of nail biters. The Democrats swept this thing last night.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I will say it did afford me the opportunity to actually get a decent night's sleep. I actually thought we might be up late, late, late when we saw how things were coming in. I felt really comfortable to turn in around 10 p.m., which was far earlier than I was going to.

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Speaker 1: See, this wasn't like watching, what, Game 4 of the NBA Finals when the Knicks were down 29 and you go to bed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And wake up to a surprise.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we weren't expecting a comeback last night. No, we were not. It would have been miraculous. So we'll touch on that. Just a hint here, but there's a few other things making headlines. We also wanted to make sure we got in our morning run. But let's do start, Robes. We do have a bunch of stops we're going to make all over the country today. But let's do start. Get folks caught up, at least with what we saw last night. Democrats... are going to reclaim control of Congress. That is the headline. That is the big deal. That means that Trump's agenda over the next two years is essentially DOA. They are not going to approve anything of his. He is threatened to veto everything of theirs. So we'll see what happens. It's supposed to be a blue wave. I even saw this morning they used the term blue surge. But this morning... The hashtag and the thing that's trending is blue tsunami. That gives you an idea, Rob, of just how much they swept everything last night.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Democrats went into the evening just needing to flip three seats in the House. But as of this recording, they flipped at least 30 seats.

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Speaker 2: In the House.

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, 10 times more than they needed to. In the Senate, Democrats needed to flip four seats. They flipped at least seven as of this recording. Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Texas, Maine, South Carolina, all of those high profile battleground Senate races that we heard so much about that. Those of you who lived in it probably saw so many political ads. You are just feeling relieved this morning that it's over. And all of those races went to the Democrats, wasn't even close in most of them.

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Speaker 1: And as of this recording, we'll still see what happens in Alaska. That's a close race with the incumbent Dan Sullivan and the fake Dan Sullivan people are hearing so much about, but neither one. He is ahead slightly as of this recording, but he doesn't have the 50% needed to keep from having to go into ranked choice voting. So that It could get quite interesting. We'll keep an eye on that. Other racism note, and a lot of history made last night in a lot of governor's mansions across the country and Georgia. This is a big deal that everybody should be excited and proud about outside of politics.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: And she is and has become a household name. She was the Atlanta mayor, now the governor of Georgia and the first black governor of Georgia, the first black female governor of the United States of America, Keisha Lance Bottoms. Byron Donalds also became the first black governor as a Republican in the state of Florida. Amy Acton swept Vivek Ramaswamy after all of that controversy over this pretty horrific ad he put up involving her estranged mother. And we have the first black governors in several states. We mentioned Georgia and Florida, but also Nevada and Wisconsin. And Marsha Blackburn became the first female governor of Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: These are cool. Those are just cool things to see, just over time and just how things are changing, more people getting into politics. Politics looks more like the electorate and like us all. This is cool.

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Speaker 3: Exactly. A first Latina governor, Democrat in Texas, which is huge. They haven't had a Democrat in more than three decades. And California also got its first Latino governor as well.

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Speaker 1: And then the Senate in Minnesota got the first Native American a woman who was elected, Flanagan there, and then New Mexico has the first female Native American governor elected there.

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Speaker 2: And help me, who beat Sununu? The first openly gay... Pappas. Pappas, yes, member of the Senate. So that's cool. There's a lot of firsts.

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Speaker 1: We didn't even mention Al-Sayed, first Muslim elected to the Senate. That's a big deal.

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Speaker 2: From Michigan, yes.

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Speaker 3: So just so many firsts. And look, we should all welcome that. Lord knows we need some fresh blood.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, President Trump, though, obviously not having a great night. And instead of reflecting and trying to see how maybe perhaps he could connect better with Americans who he's clearly not in lockstep with, he didn't blame himself.

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Speaker 2: Oh, no.

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Speaker 3: Stop that.

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Speaker 2: That's hilarious.

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Speaker 3: He blamed the Republican losses on two things in particular. The only blame he took was that he wasn't on the ballot. If he had been on the ballot, this would have been a completely different story. And the other entity to blame for last night's results?

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Speaker 1: Fox News. It's surprising, but maybe we should have seen this coming, given some of the things we've seen him talking about this network over the past few weeks. But he did lash out last night. As these returns were coming in, around 1030, he posted this to Truth Social. It simply said, quote, I wasn't on the ballot, and if I was, we would have won in a landslide. Rose, we heard him allude to this in plenty of the places he had rallies where he would say, vote like I'm on the ballot. Pretend like I'm on the ballot. The problem is Democrats took that message. They voted. They voted. Like he was on the ballot and came out in droves. That message didn't work.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it backfired. And oh, the irony, because.

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Speaker 3: Most news outlets, most of those who have been covering these elections for decades now say this absolutely was about President Trump. This was a referendum on President Trump.

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Speaker 2: So, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Earlier in the evening, though, Trump did take issue with the Fox News coverage. He posted several critical messages, including one putting the loss squarely on the cable news network, saying Fox News bears responsibility for these losses by constantly and consistently putting on the Democrat opposition and worse.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like you didn't get in line. And that's scary. You didn't help the team. You have instructions, Fox, on what you're supposed to do. It's your fault. Like, we were all in this together.

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Speaker 3: You were supposed to be my propaganda machine. You were supposed to be state-run media.

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Speaker 1: That's what that says, baby.

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Speaker 2: That's what it says.

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Speaker 1: They bear responsibility. No, they don't at all.

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Speaker 3: Actually.

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Speaker 3: Whew, this is disturbing, but yes, he goes to point out the Fox News ratings are way down, all because they put Democrats on, and we watch Fox News quite a bit in this house. They do not constantly put Democrats on, actually. And anyone else who's watched, and we watch everything, that's just patently false.

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Speaker 1: It's not the truth. All right, but hey, we got this bit of news from the president yesterday. The day that Americans were heading to the polls, he made a major announcement, Rhodes, about one... of the major issues, talking points, and even points that he was attacked for out on the campaign trail, U.S. aid to Israel.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: The president announced the United States will stop sending $ 4 billion a year in aid to Israel, and that begins next year. Trump told Fox News he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been discussing the idea for the past couple of years, and that Israel simply doesn't need our financial support anymore. During the campaign, Democrats, even some high-profile Republicans, were questioning the That continued funding, sending billions to Israel each and every year, so it officially ends.

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Speaker 1: He acknowledged some politics had to do with this. He's like, yeah, it's not a good look. They have a talking point they can use against us. But he announces this on the day of the year.

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Speaker 2: A little too late, perhaps?

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Speaker 3: Yes. All right.

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Speaker 1: Continuing on the run here now, we're going to turn to that plane crash in Florida. So many of you have seen the video. It's been everywhere this week, caused that fireball when it hit there in Palm Springs County. The pieces of that jet that crashed have been found nearly four miles away from the crash site. Investigators say parts of the tail were discovered in three pieces, all within a range of about one to four miles from where that plane went down, suggesting roads that many have been talking about. they had problems and they were breaking apart and had no control of this aircraft.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was this weather system, perhaps, that they inadvertently just got stuck in the middle of. Look, there is record and deadly flooding going on in that part of Florida. And it began from Sunday into Monday, right when this plane crash occurred. Nine people were aboard that plane. They were all killed when it violently crashed into palm beach county on sunday the plane had taken off from austin texas was taking a family of four and their friends and the family's nanny to the bahamas next up on the run unfortunately this is such well this is just the news we were hoping wouldn't happen the woman who was stabbed while she was out for a run in brooklyn last week has died 28 year old katie suarez had been on life support since the attack last Friday where she had gone out for that run. It was in a popular stretch along the waterfront there in Brooklyn on Friday, but her parents were concerned within minutes when she didn't return to schedule. She said, I'll be home in 10 minutes or five minutes, I believe. She had a half a mile left.

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Speaker 2: On her run.

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Speaker 3: 10 minutes later, her father immediately went out looking for her and found her body.

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Speaker 1: And Robes, we did. And had hope that maybe because she did survive the initial attack, that there was a chance. But they described the injuries to her. They just sounded horrific and sounded almost insurmountable, but stabbed in the neck, they say. And now, Robes, a murder. A murderer is on the loose and a manhunt is underway for this suspect. Robes, I haven't seen anywhere any update that's showing they have any description of a suspect because there were no cameras out in that particular area. It was dark at that time and just weren't a lot of people around, Robes. So I'm sure here in New York. They would have any sketch or drawing all over the news. They don't know what they're looking for.

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Speaker 2: They have no idea who to look for.

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Speaker 3: And for anyone who runs in the Brooklyn area, and frankly, anywhere here in New York, this is scary stuff and something to be made aware of. Until, eventually, hopefully, they find their suspect. In the meantime, though, next up on the run, a convicted murderer who escaped a Tennessee prison a week and a half ago has finally been recaptured.

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Speaker 2: He was on the lam for, what, nine days, I believe?

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Speaker 1: I love when you say that, on the lam.

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Speaker 3: On the lam. It's fun.

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Speaker 2: I like it. I don't know why.

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Speaker 3: It's just a fun way to describe it. You don't get to say it other than these specific instances. That's true.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about Jacob Morley.

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Speaker 3: He was on the run since October 25th when it was discovered he breached a prison fence in and.

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Speaker 2: Stole a truck.

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Speaker 3: And when we say it was discovered, it was discovered like many, many, many.

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Speaker 2: Hours after he escaped.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he got a head start.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of explaining to do.

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Speaker 1: And that truck later turned up in Marion, Illinois, which is about 120 miles north of the prison. To your point there, Robes, they said he had already made it to Marion and was on his way wherever before they even discovered he was out of prison.

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Speaker 2: My goodness.

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Speaker 1: He was riding around in a truck and they didn't even know he was out of his prison cell. But there was no sign of him when they got there to Marion, Illinois. They eventually say they got a tip that he might be traveling through a part of eastern Missouri near the Kansas City area. That's where they were able to track the vehicle with what rope?

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Speaker 2: Flock cameras.

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Speaker 1: Those things are incredible.

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Speaker 3: We've been going to war against them, and now we need more of them on running paths. We need more of them along our interstates because this is how we catch people.

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Speaker 2: Seriously. I mean, if you're not doing anything wrong... What do you care if there's a camera?

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Speaker 1: But this is how they have now tracked a guy who escaped from prison in Tennessee. They track him in Missouri using these cameras.

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Speaker 3: Babe, we have talked about flock cameras solving crimes left and right, and I understand people are upset about their privacy issues, but man, when it comes to stopping criminals, there's nothing better.

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Speaker 2: A police helicopter followed the vehicle.

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Speaker 3: Officers eventually stopped him, took him into custody without incident. We're going to have more on this capture because from start to finish, this story is fascinating.

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Speaker 2: This is stuff Netflix series and movies are made of, so.

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Speaker 3: We'll fill in all of the pretty remarkable details later in the feed, so please take a look for that or look out for that. But in the meantime, next up on the run, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed another death warrant.

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Speaker 2: And yes, we have a new... Black Florida governor who is also Republican.

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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see if he continues this streak of DeSantis, who is, yes, now setting another new record for the state of Florida.

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Speaker 2: This one is for Ricardo Gonzalez.

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Speaker 3: He is a 56-year-old convicted cop killer. And the state was already on pace to beat its own record. As we mentioned, it set last year for 19 executions. So Gonzalez, if it goes through, will be the 21st inmate executed this year.

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Speaker 1: We'll stay with us here on this day after mid-turn morning run. And Robes is going to have to get me up to speed. A hairstyling legend. I have seen the name. I have heard the name. But I will be honest. I don't fully understand his impact. Robach will break that down for us all here in just a second. And it's that time of year. We have another word of the year. I don't know how I feel about this one.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everyone, to your Wednesday morning run. And next up on the run, yes, we have lost a hairstyling legend. Ladies, you know exactly who I'm talking about. Hairstylist to the stars, beauty entrepreneur John Frida. He has died at the age of 75. He was best known for his frizzies, hair care line. My God, it got me through the 80s. and 90s. And his work with some of the biggest celebrities on the planet. We're talking Princess Di, Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow, Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, the list goes on and on and on. These are women who actually walked into his salons to get their hair done by him. And he even created a hairstyle. I hope this is what's going to land for you, babe.

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Speaker 2: The bowl cut. Of the 70s. I had it. You had it. My brother had it.

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Speaker 1: I had it. What do you mean, I had it?

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Speaker 2: You didn't have it.

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Speaker 3: Sorry.

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Speaker 1: Because I just Googled it. That would have been funny. I Googled it before you said it.

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Speaker 2: It's called the Purdy bowl cut.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at it, so it makes it even funnier that you would suggest I had this cut.

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Speaker 3: I know. I was saying, yes, you collectively. Those of us who are children of the 70s who had... Straight hair. In 1976, he created the bowl cut when he was just 25. It began with British actress Joanna Lumley. I remember this now. But at 25, he creates a hairstyle that just sweeps the world, literally. In the 70s, the bowl cut was everything. I mean, you literally just put a bowl on someone's head and cut around it. My brother had it. I have a picture of us with it. It's the same year he founded his first salon business.

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Speaker 2: Bearing his name.

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Speaker 3: Eventually he sold his like $ 450 million hair care company in 2002. He kept ownership of five salons in London, New York, and LA. And that is where on that official Instagram account for his salons, his death was announced.

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Speaker 1: You know, that's, um, so he, what did he continue doing after he kind of sold the company? Were you still a part of it?

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Speaker 2: He was still a hairstylist. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Women, I mean, celebrities went to him and I love what they said about him, his, his, um, his company. It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that our dear John passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family. John was more than a mentor to us. He was a true icon of the hair industry. He was the person who taught us everything, believed in us, made us better. His talent and passion touched so many. His legacy will live on in every single one of us. We will continue to do him proud. Our thoughts are with John's family and everyone who loved him. Rest in peace, John. You will forever be in our hearts.

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Speaker 1: No word on how.

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Speaker 3: No, no.

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Speaker 2: 75 is young. 75 is way too young.

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Speaker 1: Oh, well, the bowl cut. It's called, why the purdy?

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Speaker 2: I don't know why it's.

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Speaker 3: Called the purdy bowl cut, but oh my God, I was laughing because just that was definitely a part of my childhood. When I show you this picture of my brother and me, you're going to die laughing.

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Speaker 1: You know what? I'll skip it because I still want to respect you and be attracted to you. But for the last leg of our run, here we go again. We have our word of the year. We have a new word of the year. We're going to get several of these. Are we not, Robes? What was the last one we just got?

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Speaker 2: Oh my God, I've already forgotten. It was 6-7 the year before and.

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Speaker 1: It was maxing. Okay, this is in line. This is something I hear the girls say all the time.

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Speaker 2: Yes, word of the year for 2026 is mogging.

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Speaker 3: This one comes to us from Collins Dictionary. And yes, it's a slang word that means to outshine someone or something, mostly used by Gen Z, Gen Alphas. They say in a, quote, playful and ironic way when someone is upstage. So you're mugging for the camera. I used to go, what's the difference between mugging and mogging? Like, wouldn't we mug.

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Speaker 2: For the camera?

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Speaker 1: You do that? No, I mean mug. That's the only thing I know. Mean mugging? You ever do that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know what that is.

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Speaker 3: Really? Mean mugging?

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Speaker 1: What's a mean mug? Oh, wow. Wait a minute.

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Speaker 3: Is that when you make your look when I try to do a selfie with you and you ruin the picture?

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Speaker 1: I ruin your picture. Wow. Man, that's a lot to unpack in that response.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: I thought this was funny.

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Speaker 3: So, well, Collins Dictionary said, by the way, that mogging saw a 210% increase in usage this year. They actually monitor 27 billion word database.

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Speaker 1: Can you use it in a sentence?

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Speaker 2: Um, stop mugging me. I don't know. Is that right?

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Speaker 3: That was upstaging me. I was just trying to like switch it up for upstaging.

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Speaker 1: No, I get it. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: I just, I landed that plane.

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Speaker 3: Um, some of the other new entries into the dictionary this year, pricey, you know what that is? It describes trendy foods or drinks that are both fruity and spicy.

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Speaker 2: That's pricey.

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Speaker 1: That's lazy. Stop doing this people.

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Speaker 3: Um, the other one, ghost jobs, jobs advertised without any intention to hire anyone.

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Speaker 1: Ghost jobs? Why would you?

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Speaker 3: Maybe that's just an excuse why you didn't get the job. Oh, it's just a ghost job. They weren't actually hiring someone.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm just guessing. Friend slop?

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Speaker 1: Who? What?

00:18:54
Speaker 2: Friend slop. Friend slop.

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Speaker 1: Some leftover something?

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Speaker 3: A low budget independently produced video game played among friends.

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Speaker 2: And then P-Doom.

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Speaker 3: An estimation of the probability that AI will bring about the collapse of human civilization.

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Speaker 1: Why P? P?

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Speaker 2: I don't understand any.

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Speaker 1: Like letter P or P-E-E or P-E-A.

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Speaker 2: The letter P and doom is in parentheses.

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Speaker 3: I don't even understand how to say it, let alone what it means, how to use it. Yes, now I am officially feel incredibly old because these are like words that.

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Speaker 2: I don't even know what they're referring to.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let me try it. I'm going to go get something fricy for lunch so I can swing back by my ghost job and do some mogging.

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Speaker 3: But before that, let's friend slop because who knows when P-Doom is.

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Speaker 2: Going to happen.

00:19:44
Speaker 1: Bam. Got it. Mailed it. Take that with you. Use it in a sentence. You're welcome. All right.

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Speaker 3: On this post-midterm Wednesday, we have your quote of the day from Michael Jordan.

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Speaker 2: Some words of wisdom.

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Speaker 1: You did Kobe recently, didn't you?

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Speaker 2: I've got a theme this week.

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Speaker 1: You doing LeBron tomorrow?

00:20:02
Speaker 2: I got some athletes.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 2: They know a lot. Elite athletes.

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Speaker 1: Yes, they do.

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Speaker 2: Michael Jordan says, fall in love with losing.

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Speaker 3: Just as much as you love winning, because every loss points to something you can improve.

00:20:15
Speaker 1: Well, I get that.

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Speaker 2: You think President Trump will take that to heart?

00:20:18
Speaker 1: I get that. See, why did you have to muddy the waters? We were having a Michael Jordan moment.

00:20:23
Speaker 2: I just thought it was great. And honestly, this is so true.

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Speaker 3: This is how you take a loss and you actually make it a win, because you can learn something.

00:20:31
Speaker 1: It's tough to say fall in love with losing. That part there is to actually appreciate. You have to embrace and learn lessons, but man, fall in love with losing is heavy.

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Speaker 3: One more time, fall in love with losing just as much as you love winning because every loss points to something you can improve. So anyone who's licking their wound today, their candidate didn't become their next representative, just remember the wise words of Michael Jordan. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you running with us.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach.

00:21:03
Speaker 1: Amy Robach just gave Republicans advice based on a Michael Jordan quote.

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Speaker 2: You're welcome.

00:21:09
Speaker 1: That's the night they had. They could use every bit. And I'm T.J.

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Speaker 3: Holmes.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to y'all soon.