Sept. 30, 2026
(Wednesday) Morning Run: New Clancy Questions, NYC Subway Death, Quick American Idol Verdict, TN Woman Execution Tonight, Noem Divorce, TSA Chairs Taken, & MORE!
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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.
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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, September 30th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. We've got a number of stops to make on this morning's run, this last day of the month. We'll swing by Tennessee. Also, we'll take a stop in the New York City subway system. Also make a stop in Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, as well as... Six flags. But we need to start here, Robes, with two major updates we got yesterday from two courtroom cases we have been watching very closely. The country has really been watching. We get the verdict in one and the other. We get a kind of a kicking of the can down the road and make decisions later. We talk about Clancy and then, of course, the American Idol trial. But yes, big day in the courtroom yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It certainly was.
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Speaker 3: And it was quick. It actually took a little longer than we thought. We thought it could just be minutes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It took a jury less than three hours to find 40-year-old former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn guilty of murdering his wife Ashley after 15 years of marriage. I know this won't surprise anyone who's been listening with us or following along. Flynn cried as the jury delivered its verdict. He cried through much of the trial. In fact, the only time he didn't cry was when his mistress was on the stand, notably.
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Speaker 1: Whimpering. Is that a thing?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Some of that qualifies whimpering.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he whimpered a lot. He sobbed a lot, but he was very dramatic. But yes, he did cry. Tears were flowing as the jury found him guilty of all eight charges, including aggravated murder and tampering with evidence after prosecutors said Flynn shot his wife while she was sleeping to be with his mistress.
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Speaker 1: And that woman, Aaliyah Botner, spent several days on the stand testifying. Had to read a lot of really embarrassing and damning texts in which the two would call the victim a douche, in which they would both speak about wanting her gone or wanting her dead. But the prosecution was the only side that you could argue Rose put on a case. They had 40 witnesses over the week plus of testimony. Defense didn't have anybody to put up there.
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Speaker 2: Not a single witness.
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Speaker 1: And Rose, maybe that's a part of their case and strategy. It might be we don't have anybody to get up there to defend this guy. Exactly. Could have been a possibility as well. He is now facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. He'll be sentenced next week on the 5th.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but after the verdict, prosecutors shared a statement from Ashley's family who testified as well. And they said, well, the verdict brought justice and accountability. No verdict is able to bring Ashley back to her loved ones. In terms of Caleb Flynn, his attorneys have already spoken as well, saying they plan to appeal the jury's verdict.
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Speaker 1: Continuing the run here, let's head to that other courtroom, this one in Massachusetts. Lindsay Clancy was back in court yesterday, first time we've seen her since her mistrial, and one of the biggest questions was answered fairly immediately. Yes, prosecutors are going to seek to retry Clancy for the murder of her three children.
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Speaker 3: The two sides argued over a number of motions, but the judge ultimately made no rulings from the bench. Yesterday, he did press the sides to pick a date for a new trial.
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Speaker 2: They pushed back.
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Speaker 3: He joked around with Kevin Reddington a bit. He said, I thought you said you could try this next week. And Kevin Reddington said, no, I won't be available until next June.
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Speaker 2: So we shall see, but a date is supposed to.
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Speaker 3: Be picked on a November 2nd hearing where that can has been kicked.
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Speaker 1: And folks, you'll see a lot of headlines about this probably, but it was eyebrow raising yesterday, Robes, that Kevin Reddington got in court yesterday and made an argument, at least as part of these motions, completely opposite to the argument he made throughout the entire trial, which was, yes, Lindsay Clancy killed her kids, but The psychosis made her do it. In court yesterday, he said there's no evidence she even killed her kids.
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Speaker 2: It was a bit shocking.
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Speaker 1: It was shocking to us. It was shocking to the prosecutor. He stood there and said, where is the evidence? This is all circumstantial. There's no proof. She actually strangled the kids, which flies in the face of exactly what he said throughout the trial. So this is just part of their legal wrangling and strategy, but this is a complete change of strategy if he's making this point.
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Speaker 3: Indeed.
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Speaker 2: We shall see if that continues.
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Speaker 3: As the state continues to press those murder charges against Lindsay Clancy. All right, next up on the run, Tennessee is scheduled to execute Krista Pike tonight. She will be the first woman executed in that state in more than 200 years. She's on death row for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, who Pike believed was trying to steal her boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: Pike, who was 18 at the time, along with her boyfriend, beat Slemmer, carved a pentagram into her chest, cut her throat, smashed her head with a rock. Pike has a long and documented history of sexual abuse dating back to when she was a toddler. Dozens of women, advocacy groups, have come forward. They're calling for the governor to recognize and consider that history, and they want her death sentence to be commuted to life. They're not asking for her to be exonerated. That's not what we're talking about here, but ropes that say she's going to be re-victimized if she is strapped down to that chair right before she is executed. They actually say she might feel like she's being raped to death is the argument they're using.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and they wrote that letter to the governor, but we heard from him yesterday. Governor Bill Lee said, put it on the record, that he is not going to step in and stop this execution, which is scheduled for this evening. We're going to have a full podcast, a full episode on this and Krista Pike's story. It is a dark and twisted one, but it does have some very interesting points Not only her sexual abuse history, but the age she was.
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Speaker 2: At the time she committed the crime.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll continue on the run here. Now we'll head down to Florida, that very busy death chamber. They have now executed. Their 16th inmate of the year. This happened on Tuesday evening. Yes, last night, 77-year-old Curtis Wilkie Beasley pronounced dead at 6.12 p.m. for the 1995 murder of Carolyn Munford.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he was convicted of bludgeoning Munford to death with a claw hammer. He is the seventh death row inmate over the age of 70. that Florida has put to death this year. And he did have a few final words just before his execution. He said, I want to apologize for all the mistakes I made as his spiritual advisor remained by his side as the lethal injections were administered. He's the 29th inmate to be executed so far this year.
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Speaker 2: In the United States.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run here, we'll head back to New York City, in particular the New York subway system, where there was a scene of horror. A man was killed there after his bag got caught in the door of a train and dragged him onto the track. Police say this was a 57-year-old man. He was getting off a train in Brooklyn. The bag he was carrying, Rose described it as a shopping bag. When I first heard the story, I wasn't piecing that part together, but a shopping bag. So don't know if it was kind of on his shoulder in some way or imagine not letting go of it. Or maybe Dave's trying to hold on to his stuff. But either way, he was carrying it. It got stuck in the closing door of the train. Train takes off. It pulls him down into the track. He struck by the train roads. We look, we're on that subway damn near every day. And we see people do this a lot in terms of trying to hop on and off. All those doors are closing. And I've seen some doors or some we've seen people or items get stuck and had to pull the doors back open or yank a little harder. Whereas we've seen it. I didn't know this was possible.
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Speaker 2: No, this is frightening.
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Speaker 3: And at first I thought we read it was a backpack that made more sense to me.
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Speaker 2: You're right. A shopping bag.
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Speaker 3: I maybe just instinctually he didn't drop it and it jerked him.
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Speaker 2: That's my thought. But my God, that's scary. And a reminder to let it go. Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run.
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Speaker 3: A commercial flight from Dubai to Israel was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia because of an incident on the plane. The emergency prompted Israel even to scramble fighter jets for fear that the plane might have actually been hijacked. The plane eventually landed safely in Saudi Arabia. So what was the incident on board that prompted all of this? The pilots got into a fight in the cockpit. Are you kidding me right now? There's no details. We don't know what they were fighting about. Don't know if they kissed and made up. But that's a that's a heck of a brawl on a plane. And it's certainly not what you want to hear is going on while you're a passenger.
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Speaker 1: They should probably be fired immediately.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: They should. I want to hear their story at least. But, bro, this is you endangered everybody on that plane.
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Speaker 2: And on the ground and just scrambling fighter jets.
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Speaker 1: All of that. Yeah, they have to be fired.
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Speaker 2: They have to be fired. Get your you-know-what together and be professional.
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Speaker 1: Rose, the fight in a cockpit.
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Speaker 2: I've never heard of that.
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Speaker 1: And Rose, there were a lot of Israeli citizens on this plane. So the thought was hijacking. There was a concern. What are they fighting about?
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Speaker 2: I need to know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we might need to know.
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Speaker 2: They have a black box recorder, right? We can find out.
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Speaker 1: They have all the audio. They should, yeah.
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Speaker 3: We should know exactly what they were fighting about. Can't wait for that story.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, stay with us on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, a roller coaster had to be shut down because it might be too damn intense. We'll explain. Also, a former very high profile member of the president's cabinet is getting divorced and come on y'all we gotta give tasa agents a little bit of a break.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everyone, to your, oh, it's a hump day morning run. And yes, we just got word from Six Flags that they are having to shut down a roller coaster after lawsuits allege that the ride has caused brain injuries. The X2 roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California, it's been in operation for 20 years, but now They announced it's closing permanently.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a recently settled lawsuit they had with one family of a man who died after riding this thing back in 2022. And then they had at least three new lawsuits filed last week alleging brain injury after riding that roller coaster. It closed in June after two women had to be taken to the hospital after riding this thing. I don't know why it's happening now. I guess so much recently in recent years, but growth has been around for a little while.
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Speaker 3: That's bizarre that for two, after 20 years now, they've got several folks who are claiming and who knows, maybe people may go back and say, aha, that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's it. Maybe people weren't reporting it.
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Speaker 2: Cause they didn't connect it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. But bro, that's frightening. We like roller coasters, but Jesus. Woo.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, Christine Noem has officially filed for divorce. The former Homeland security secretary said, listed irreconcilable differences on her filing for divorce from Brian Noem. They had been married, I didn't realize this, for 34 years, and they have three kids together.
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Speaker 1: That's some grandkids in there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's got grandkids, but I do remember the photos, and that is what prompted most of this. Tabloid found some photos he apparently was sharing online. He didn't deny it, and Chrissy Noem actually even acknowledged it where he was He's into bimbofication or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Oh, is that what it's called?
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Speaker 3: I believe it was called bimbofication, where he was on these websites where he was wearing, like, some.
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Speaker 1: Women's bodysuits kind of a thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to put it, but yes, women's bodysuits with very large breasts on it.
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Speaker 1: And that made for headlines at the time while she was still the Homeland Security Secretary, so that's of no dead least because of that. Last leg of our run here. Robeson, I don't know about this. TSA agents... I mean, give them a break. They took their money, Robes, during the shutdown. Wouldn't pay them. They had to show up to work. TSA agents have to deal with pissed off passengers day in, day out. People don't know how to put the damn tray up on the thing. Kids acting up. Take your shoes off. All this. All day long. And now on top of all this, you want to take their chairs, Robes.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 3: I'm concerned because we already saw the moods. The TSA agents are in when we go to the airport, or at least we did just a few days ago, literally yelling at people for no reason at 6 a.m. So I wonder what kind of mood they're going to be when they are no longer allowed to have a chair. Yes, the agency has announced agents will no longer be allowed to use chairs when they work. So you know who they're taking your IDs and they have those little chairs they're sitting in.
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Speaker 2: Nope, they've got to stand now.
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Speaker 1: There's always a chair there.
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Speaker 2: They've always had a chair.
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Speaker 3: So, yes, they said this welcome change reinforces both our security posture and our commitment to hospitality by having these officers on their feet and alert. All officers must meet fitness for duty requirements to be capable of performing their vital national security function while simultaneously creating a welcoming and professional environment for travelers. Yeah, that's going to make them even happier than they already are. I mean, we were just having this conversation. Like, why you got to start a vacation off with people yelling at you for no good reason?
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Speaker 1: And obviously, this isn't all TSA agents. However, the majority of our experiences, and we travel a lot, do not involve Welcoming and professional environments that are created by the TSA's commitment to hospitality.
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Speaker 2: That's hilarious. I mean, that makes me laugh, actually.
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Speaker 1: That statement is hilarious. It's hilarious. And seriously, TSA, people go through things. And we understand. People have tough mornings. It's 6 a.m. I've got to deal with you. And you could be upset. You cannot have some of these people public-facing TSA. employees of TSA.
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Speaker 3: That's what you said. You were like, can you imagine if this was a Walmart greeter? I mean, you would turn around and leave the store immediately.
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Speaker 1: That is without a doubt. The worst person we have experienced at TSA was on this current trip. And we don't know, we weren't even getting barked at.
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Speaker 2: He was yelling at someone else.
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Speaker 1: At everybody else. Everybody around him. We could not believe his mood. He was barking angrily at people. Unbelievable. And now you can't sit down, sir. Stay on your feet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to make him even happier and kinder. Just, you know, hospitality and TSA agents, those two phrases don't go together.
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Speaker 1: And again, we know they're good people. We know it's a tough job. We know it's not the highest paying. We know they're long hours. And we know you've got to deal with a bunch of jerks going through the airport. We know this. But y'all told me this is the job you're there for, is hospitality.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and the workers' union... I like their response. Sitting is not a privilege. It's basic safety.
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Speaker 1: I did kind of like it. They said, you're treating this like it's a treat. Like, here you go. Here's a chair as a bonus.
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Speaker 2: We're going to take your chairs away. Just the idea of that is unkind.
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Speaker 1: I just don't get it. Keep them alert. My question, what about the person who is back there looking at the stuff going through the belt? Yeah, they're sitting. They're sitting. They should be more alert than anybody, I would argue.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. We'll see how this goes. Is this effective immediately?
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Speaker 1: We'll find out on Saturday, won't we?
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Speaker 2: We certainly will.
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Speaker 3: All right, on this hump day, on this Wednesday, here is your quote of the day. Never let a 10-minute problem ruin a 24-hour day.
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Speaker 2: The email pissed you off. The traffic was terrible. The fight made you angry.
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Speaker 1: Feel it.
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Speaker 2: Deal with it. But keep the rest of your day intact.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of got to let it go after. I always remember this from one of the books you gave me, The Comparison of a Baby. that you pass on the street in a stroller.
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Speaker 2: I don't remember this.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there's this analogy that's being used. Yes, you're walking down the street. Your baby is passing you in the stroller, being pushed by the parent. You look at that baby and go, oh, my God, that's so cute. And when it's over, you don't think about the baby again. You have that moment. You experience that moment. As soon as you pass, it's gone. Why don't you treat your problems like you treated that cute little baby? You saw it. You experienced. It's over. I don't feel the emotion anymore. I'm not gaga-goo-gooing anymore.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 1: And that was the analogy. So, yes, I love that saying and that mindset, Robes. Yes, keep it pushing. Keep it going. You just experienced something. It's over. There are another 23 hours and 50 minutes in the day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the next time something really gets under your skin, whether it's a person or a problem... Never let a 10-minute problem ruin a 24-hour day.
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Speaker 2: I love that. All right, and with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Talk soon.
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ.
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Speaker 2: An iHeartRadio podcast.
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Speaker 3: Hey there, everybody, and welcome to your morning run.
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Speaker 2: It is Wednesday, September 30th. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. We've got a number of stops to make on this morning's run, this last day of the month. We'll swing by Tennessee. Also, we'll take a stop in the New York City subway system. Also make a stop in Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts, as well as... Six flags. But we need to start here, Robes, with two major updates we got yesterday from two courtroom cases we have been watching very closely. The country has really been watching. We get the verdict in one and the other. We get a kind of a kicking of the can down the road and make decisions later. We talk about Clancy and then, of course, the American Idol trial. But yes, big day in the courtroom yesterday.
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Speaker 2: It certainly was.
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Speaker 3: And it was quick. It actually took a little longer than we thought. We thought it could just be minutes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It took a jury less than three hours to find 40-year-old former American Idol contestant Caleb Flynn guilty of murdering his wife Ashley after 15 years of marriage. I know this won't surprise anyone who's been listening with us or following along. Flynn cried as the jury delivered its verdict. He cried through much of the trial. In fact, the only time he didn't cry was when his mistress was on the stand, notably.
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Speaker 1: Whimpering. Is that a thing?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Some of that qualifies whimpering.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he whimpered a lot. He sobbed a lot, but he was very dramatic. But yes, he did cry. Tears were flowing as the jury found him guilty of all eight charges, including aggravated murder and tampering with evidence after prosecutors said Flynn shot his wife while she was sleeping to be with his mistress.
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Speaker 1: And that woman, Aaliyah Botner, spent several days on the stand testifying. Had to read a lot of really embarrassing and damning texts in which the two would call the victim a douche, in which they would both speak about wanting her gone or wanting her dead. But the prosecution was the only side that you could argue Rose put on a case. They had 40 witnesses over the week plus of testimony. Defense didn't have anybody to put up there.
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Speaker 2: Not a single witness.
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Speaker 1: And Rose, maybe that's a part of their case and strategy. It might be we don't have anybody to get up there to defend this guy. Exactly. Could have been a possibility as well. He is now facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. He'll be sentenced next week on the 5th.
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Speaker 3: Yes, but after the verdict, prosecutors shared a statement from Ashley's family who testified as well. And they said, well, the verdict brought justice and accountability. No verdict is able to bring Ashley back to her loved ones. In terms of Caleb Flynn, his attorneys have already spoken as well, saying they plan to appeal the jury's verdict.
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Speaker 1: Continuing the run here, let's head to that other courtroom, this one in Massachusetts. Lindsay Clancy was back in court yesterday, first time we've seen her since her mistrial, and one of the biggest questions was answered fairly immediately. Yes, prosecutors are going to seek to retry Clancy for the murder of her three children.
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Speaker 3: The two sides argued over a number of motions, but the judge ultimately made no rulings from the bench. Yesterday, he did press the sides to pick a date for a new trial.
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Speaker 2: They pushed back.
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Speaker 3: He joked around with Kevin Reddington a bit. He said, I thought you said you could try this next week. And Kevin Reddington said, no, I won't be available until next June.
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Speaker 2: So we shall see, but a date is supposed to.
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Speaker 3: Be picked on a November 2nd hearing where that can has been kicked.
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Speaker 1: And folks, you'll see a lot of headlines about this probably, but it was eyebrow raising yesterday, Robes, that Kevin Reddington got in court yesterday and made an argument, at least as part of these motions, completely opposite to the argument he made throughout the entire trial, which was, yes, Lindsay Clancy killed her kids, but The psychosis made her do it. In court yesterday, he said there's no evidence she even killed her kids.
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Speaker 2: It was a bit shocking.
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Speaker 1: It was shocking to us. It was shocking to the prosecutor. He stood there and said, where is the evidence? This is all circumstantial. There's no proof. She actually strangled the kids, which flies in the face of exactly what he said throughout the trial. So this is just part of their legal wrangling and strategy, but this is a complete change of strategy if he's making this point.
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Speaker 3: Indeed.
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Speaker 2: We shall see if that continues.
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Speaker 3: As the state continues to press those murder charges against Lindsay Clancy. All right, next up on the run, Tennessee is scheduled to execute Krista Pike tonight. She will be the first woman executed in that state in more than 200 years. She's on death row for the 1995 torture and murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, who Pike believed was trying to steal her boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: Pike, who was 18 at the time, along with her boyfriend, beat Slemmer, carved a pentagram into her chest, cut her throat, smashed her head with a rock. Pike has a long and documented history of sexual abuse dating back to when she was a toddler. Dozens of women, advocacy groups, have come forward. They're calling for the governor to recognize and consider that history, and they want her death sentence to be commuted to life. They're not asking for her to be exonerated. That's not what we're talking about here, but ropes that say she's going to be re-victimized if she is strapped down to that chair right before she is executed. They actually say she might feel like she's being raped to death is the argument they're using.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and they wrote that letter to the governor, but we heard from him yesterday. Governor Bill Lee said, put it on the record, that he is not going to step in and stop this execution, which is scheduled for this evening. We're going to have a full podcast, a full episode on this and Krista Pike's story. It is a dark and twisted one, but it does have some very interesting points Not only her sexual abuse history, but the age she was.
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Speaker 2: At the time she committed the crime.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll continue on the run here. Now we'll head down to Florida, that very busy death chamber. They have now executed. Their 16th inmate of the year. This happened on Tuesday evening. Yes, last night, 77-year-old Curtis Wilkie Beasley pronounced dead at 6.12 p.m. for the 1995 murder of Carolyn Munford.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he was convicted of bludgeoning Munford to death with a claw hammer. He is the seventh death row inmate over the age of 70. that Florida has put to death this year. And he did have a few final words just before his execution. He said, I want to apologize for all the mistakes I made as his spiritual advisor remained by his side as the lethal injections were administered. He's the 29th inmate to be executed so far this year.
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Speaker 2: In the United States.
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Speaker 1: All right, next up on the run here, we'll head back to New York City, in particular the New York subway system, where there was a scene of horror. A man was killed there after his bag got caught in the door of a train and dragged him onto the track. Police say this was a 57-year-old man. He was getting off a train in Brooklyn. The bag he was carrying, Rose described it as a shopping bag. When I first heard the story, I wasn't piecing that part together, but a shopping bag. So don't know if it was kind of on his shoulder in some way or imagine not letting go of it. Or maybe Dave's trying to hold on to his stuff. But either way, he was carrying it. It got stuck in the closing door of the train. Train takes off. It pulls him down into the track. He struck by the train roads. We look, we're on that subway damn near every day. And we see people do this a lot in terms of trying to hop on and off. All those doors are closing. And I've seen some doors or some we've seen people or items get stuck and had to pull the doors back open or yank a little harder. Whereas we've seen it. I didn't know this was possible.
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Speaker 2: No, this is frightening.
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Speaker 3: And at first I thought we read it was a backpack that made more sense to me.
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Speaker 2: You're right. A shopping bag.
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Speaker 3: I maybe just instinctually he didn't drop it and it jerked him.
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Speaker 2: That's my thought. But my God, that's scary. And a reminder to let it go. Oh, my goodness.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Next up on the run.
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Speaker 3: A commercial flight from Dubai to Israel was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia because of an incident on the plane. The emergency prompted Israel even to scramble fighter jets for fear that the plane might have actually been hijacked. The plane eventually landed safely in Saudi Arabia. So what was the incident on board that prompted all of this? The pilots got into a fight in the cockpit. Are you kidding me right now? There's no details. We don't know what they were fighting about. Don't know if they kissed and made up. But that's a that's a heck of a brawl on a plane. And it's certainly not what you want to hear is going on while you're a passenger.
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Speaker 1: They should probably be fired immediately.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: They should. I want to hear their story at least. But, bro, this is you endangered everybody on that plane.
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Speaker 2: And on the ground and just scrambling fighter jets.
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Speaker 1: All of that. Yeah, they have to be fired.
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Speaker 2: They have to be fired. Get your you-know-what together and be professional.
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Speaker 1: Rose, the fight in a cockpit.
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Speaker 2: I've never heard of that.
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Speaker 1: And Rose, there were a lot of Israeli citizens on this plane. So the thought was hijacking. There was a concern. What are they fighting about?
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Speaker 2: I need to know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we might need to know.
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Speaker 2: They have a black box recorder, right? We can find out.
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Speaker 1: They have all the audio. They should, yeah.
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Speaker 3: We should know exactly what they were fighting about. Can't wait for that story.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, stay with us on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, a roller coaster had to be shut down because it might be too damn intense. We'll explain. Also, a former very high profile member of the president's cabinet is getting divorced and come on y'all we gotta give tasa agents a little bit of a break.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everyone, to your, oh, it's a hump day morning run. And yes, we just got word from Six Flags that they are having to shut down a roller coaster after lawsuits allege that the ride has caused brain injuries. The X2 roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California, it's been in operation for 20 years, but now They announced it's closing permanently.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a recently settled lawsuit they had with one family of a man who died after riding this thing back in 2022. And then they had at least three new lawsuits filed last week alleging brain injury after riding that roller coaster. It closed in June after two women had to be taken to the hospital after riding this thing. I don't know why it's happening now. I guess so much recently in recent years, but growth has been around for a little while.
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Speaker 3: That's bizarre that for two, after 20 years now, they've got several folks who are claiming and who knows, maybe people may go back and say, aha, that's what happened.
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Speaker 1: Maybe that's it. Maybe people weren't reporting it.
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Speaker 2: Cause they didn't connect it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. But bro, that's frightening. We like roller coasters, but Jesus. Woo.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 3: Next up on the run, Christine Noem has officially filed for divorce. The former Homeland security secretary said, listed irreconcilable differences on her filing for divorce from Brian Noem. They had been married, I didn't realize this, for 34 years, and they have three kids together.
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Speaker 1: That's some grandkids in there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's got grandkids, but I do remember the photos, and that is what prompted most of this. Tabloid found some photos he apparently was sharing online. He didn't deny it, and Chrissy Noem actually even acknowledged it where he was He's into bimbofication or something like that.
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Speaker 1: Oh, is that what it's called?
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Speaker 3: I believe it was called bimbofication, where he was on these websites where he was wearing, like, some.
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Speaker 1: Women's bodysuits kind of a thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was trying to figure out how to put it, but yes, women's bodysuits with very large breasts on it.
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Speaker 1: And that made for headlines at the time while she was still the Homeland Security Secretary, so that's of no dead least because of that. Last leg of our run here. Robeson, I don't know about this. TSA agents... I mean, give them a break. They took their money, Robes, during the shutdown. Wouldn't pay them. They had to show up to work. TSA agents have to deal with pissed off passengers day in, day out. People don't know how to put the damn tray up on the thing. Kids acting up. Take your shoes off. All this. All day long. And now on top of all this, you want to take their chairs, Robes.
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Speaker 2: You know what?
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Speaker 3: I'm concerned because we already saw the moods. The TSA agents are in when we go to the airport, or at least we did just a few days ago, literally yelling at people for no reason at 6 a.m. So I wonder what kind of mood they're going to be when they are no longer allowed to have a chair. Yes, the agency has announced agents will no longer be allowed to use chairs when they work. So you know who they're taking your IDs and they have those little chairs they're sitting in.
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Speaker 2: Nope, they've got to stand now.
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Speaker 1: There's always a chair there.
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Speaker 2: They've always had a chair.
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Speaker 3: So, yes, they said this welcome change reinforces both our security posture and our commitment to hospitality by having these officers on their feet and alert. All officers must meet fitness for duty requirements to be capable of performing their vital national security function while simultaneously creating a welcoming and professional environment for travelers. Yeah, that's going to make them even happier than they already are. I mean, we were just having this conversation. Like, why you got to start a vacation off with people yelling at you for no good reason?
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Speaker 1: And obviously, this isn't all TSA agents. However, the majority of our experiences, and we travel a lot, do not involve Welcoming and professional environments that are created by the TSA's commitment to hospitality.
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Speaker 2: That's hilarious. I mean, that makes me laugh, actually.
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Speaker 1: That statement is hilarious. It's hilarious. And seriously, TSA, people go through things. And we understand. People have tough mornings. It's 6 a.m. I've got to deal with you. And you could be upset. You cannot have some of these people public-facing TSA. employees of TSA.
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Speaker 3: That's what you said. You were like, can you imagine if this was a Walmart greeter? I mean, you would turn around and leave the store immediately.
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Speaker 1: That is without a doubt. The worst person we have experienced at TSA was on this current trip. And we don't know, we weren't even getting barked at.
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Speaker 2: He was yelling at someone else.
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Speaker 1: At everybody else. Everybody around him. We could not believe his mood. He was barking angrily at people. Unbelievable. And now you can't sit down, sir. Stay on your feet.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to make him even happier and kinder. Just, you know, hospitality and TSA agents, those two phrases don't go together.
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Speaker 1: And again, we know they're good people. We know it's a tough job. We know it's not the highest paying. We know they're long hours. And we know you've got to deal with a bunch of jerks going through the airport. We know this. But y'all told me this is the job you're there for, is hospitality.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and the workers' union... I like their response. Sitting is not a privilege. It's basic safety.
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Speaker 1: I did kind of like it. They said, you're treating this like it's a treat. Like, here you go. Here's a chair as a bonus.
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Speaker 2: We're going to take your chairs away. Just the idea of that is unkind.
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Speaker 1: I just don't get it. Keep them alert. My question, what about the person who is back there looking at the stuff going through the belt? Yeah, they're sitting. They're sitting. They should be more alert than anybody, I would argue.
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Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness. We'll see how this goes. Is this effective immediately?
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Speaker 1: We'll find out on Saturday, won't we?
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Speaker 2: We certainly will.
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Speaker 3: All right, on this hump day, on this Wednesday, here is your quote of the day. Never let a 10-minute problem ruin a 24-hour day.
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Speaker 2: The email pissed you off. The traffic was terrible. The fight made you angry.
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Speaker 1: Feel it.
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Speaker 2: Deal with it. But keep the rest of your day intact.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you kind of got to let it go after. I always remember this from one of the books you gave me, The Comparison of a Baby. that you pass on the street in a stroller.
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Speaker 2: I don't remember this.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there's this analogy that's being used. Yes, you're walking down the street. Your baby is passing you in the stroller, being pushed by the parent. You look at that baby and go, oh, my God, that's so cute. And when it's over, you don't think about the baby again. You have that moment. You experience that moment. As soon as you pass, it's gone. Why don't you treat your problems like you treated that cute little baby? You saw it. You experienced. It's over. I don't feel the emotion anymore. I'm not gaga-goo-gooing anymore.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 1: And that was the analogy. So, yes, I love that saying and that mindset, Robes. Yes, keep it pushing. Keep it going. You just experienced something. It's over. There are another 23 hours and 50 minutes in the day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so the next time something really gets under your skin, whether it's a person or a problem... Never let a 10-minute problem ruin a 24-hour day.
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Speaker 2: I love that. All right, and with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm Amy Robach.
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Speaker 1: And I'm TJ Holmes. Talk soon.