Aug. 19, 2026
(Wednesday) Morning Run: No Iran Talks, “TACO” on Tariffs, Testy Tupac Testimony, Nolan Wells Bday, Last Words of FL Inmate, ABC Sues Trump, ZZ Top Drummer Dead, & MORE!
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Speaker 1: Hey there everybody, and thanks for joining us for today's morning ron. It is the best day of the year. It is Wednesday, August nineteenth.
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Speaker 2: Hump Day was hump Day in the middle of the summer.
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, baby, it's your forty ninth birthday, your last year in your forties.
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Speaker 2: How are you feeling. I am feeling optimistic this morning. That is the word optimism. I feel great this morning. I didn't immediately, but I got things going and not Yes, optimistic is the word you say. Read this article in New York Times about a guy who coached Roger Federer and he talked about his optimism was his key to his victory. I found that article this morning. I read through it.
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Speaker 1: It got me going that isn't we should do an episode on that article because I think, you know, every single person sometimes just needs that coach, that person in their life to explain that, yes, you get what you aldtract.
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Speaker 2: I do believe that he was. He made a great point about Roger, one of the greatest champions ever, only won fifty four percent of his points. He only won half. But he's one of the greatest champions ever. How do you do that? Is because he was always looking ahead to the next thing. He never got caught up in what already happened or some big loss. He was able to manage the wins and the losses with the same optimism. Wow, it's a great and some of the stuff we already know and we studied. But whatever reason it got me going. If you all want to check it out, it was the coach for Roger Federer. He did an essay in the New York Times about optimism. Check it out. So, yes, that's why I am on this August nineteen.
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Speaker 3: That's fantastic. I want to hear more and I'm going to read it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, but yes, good morning to you all. Thank you Rose for the birthday wishes. We got a hell of a day planned here where we are outside of New York for now. But on the run this morning, Yes, the birthday run will be making several stops. Will make one in Vegas. Should have gone there for the birthday, will we make it stops in Vegas. We'll make a couple of stops on the run this morning in Florida. Also make a stop in Alaska, making a stop as well in the Bay Area. But let's start robes. I guess with the war in Iran. This will be a quick update.
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Speaker 1: It's not happening at least, the peace talks aren't and that's all according to President Trump. Yes, he said this on true social There are no talks or conversations going on or scheduled with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The naval blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormone Street is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.
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Speaker 2: This sounds like it's over. He put out a statement saying there are no talks, there are no conversations, but it's all good because the strait is open. That's just not true by any measure. It's just so don't take Iran's word for it. Look at anybody keeping track of traffic roads. I didn't realize they were actually websites dedicated showed you exactly how many have gone through, how many are standing by. It ain't flowing, it's not happening. Robes. So I don't know what this statement is supposed to convey to the rest of the world. Yes, Iran didn't have to, but they did reiterate that the Strange is closed and it's not going to reopen until the US meets certain conditions. Here we are, but they're saying Iran and Oman Robes, those are the two who are working out a deal to open up the strait. I don't know where this tweet of his or post comes.
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Speaker 1: From, my goodness. All right, well, we'll continue to keep our eye on that. But next up on the run. Several states here in this country held primaries last night, and here's what you need to know.
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Speaker 3: First.
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Speaker 1: In the all important state of Florida, the matchup to replace Governor Ron death Warrant DeSantis.
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Speaker 3: That was your affectionate name.
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Speaker 2: You gave him affectionate, he earned it. What are you talking about. Yes, we'll get into them having another execution last night, but yes, they're trying to replace the Robes, who's right now clearing out the death warrant roles in that state. But we're talking about a Democrat, David Jolly is going to face Republican Congressman Byron Daniels. Even if you don't know Byron Daniels Donald's excuse me name, you'll see his face and go, oh, yeah, that guy, because he's been around to the past several years, kind of a rising star in the Republican party. He would become Robes the first black governor in that state's history. Wow. All right.
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Speaker 1: Meantime, in Alaska, all eyes were on the race for Senate, which is key if.
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Speaker 3: Democrats want to retake the Senate.
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Speaker 1: In this race, two guys with the same name, we're competing.
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Speaker 3: This is crazy.
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Speaker 1: There were two Dan Sullivan's on the ballot, One the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan, and two a political unknown and retired teacher also named Dan Sullivan.
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Speaker 2: Just a quinkie dink, right, Robes, just a kuinky dink. Well, Republicans didn't think so. They accused the second Dan Sullivan of actually being a Democratic plant who was put on the ballots specifically to confuse voters and possibly siphon votes away from Senator Dan Sullivan. This second Sulimon is not affiliate, no Democrat, no Republican, no political experience in the background. Just came out of nowhere. He had to fight and actually a court had to allow his name to be on the ballot because yes, Robes, they thought some uh, there was some shenanigans here.
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Speaker 3: That is ridiculous and if true, terrible.
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Speaker 1: Ultimately, Senator Sullivan advanced along with Democrat Representative Mary Poltoa. That was because they had the rank choice voting. So that's just a different way of doing things. But that allowed those two to advance. And then in California, the race has still not been called in the race to replace Yes, what do we say in battled or once in battle because now he's.
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Speaker 2: Just gone criminally investigated.
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Speaker 1: There you go, Eric Swallwells who we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the fourteenth district seat has been vacant since he resigned in amidst all those sexual assault allegations. So, yes, what you have going on there to Aisha Wahab was holding a two percentage point lead as of this recording over Melissa Hernandez. Both of them are Democrats. So the way this works wrote this is a special election to fill out the rest of his seat. Then they're going to run again against each other in November two for a full two year term. So he created kind of a mess there, Yeah, everything mess that took place. The upset of the night though, was down in Florida Democratic Senate primary happening there. Progressive, not very well funded candidate pulled off a big win. This is a state lawmaker named Angie Nixon. She was out raised, outspent by more established Democrat, but won that primary with fifty six percent of the vote. Broke. That's a big deal. You know, progressives all over the country pulling off some of these primary upsets. This was a big one. She's going to face Ashley Moody to determine who'll finish out the remaining two years of Marco Rubio's term that he left he, of course, became Secretary of State. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Quite in politics, and a big day in our nation's courts will begin with what's happening in Massachusetts. The defense continued to make its case that thirty six year old Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children.
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Speaker 3: Three years ago.
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Speaker 1: Clancy's former mother in law, Susan Clancy, took the stand on Tuesday, testifying Lindsay was begging for help in the months leading up to the killings.
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Speaker 2: Now Susan Clanzy described Lindsay as quote very nurturing and very loving. That text message between the two showed Lindsay expressing concern about her dependency on powerful psychiatric drugs. The defense also brought several medical professionals up who testify that Lindsay showed symptoms of postpartum depression months before the murders and that she likely had bipolar disorder.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and the prosecution did score some points on cross getting one witness to acknowledge there was no record of Lindsay telling doctors about.
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Speaker 3: Hearing those voices until after the killings.
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Speaker 1: And if you remember, she has claimed that a male voice told her that she had to kill her children and then herself. The trial is continuing today with more witnesses for the defense, but we're gonna have a full wrap. There was some powerful moments in court, some contentious moments in court that will tell you about in our next episode.
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Speaker 2: So as the point, they're trying to suggest she made up the voices part after the fact.
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Speaker 1: They're claiming that a doctor and he took the stand at the end of the day yesterday.
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Speaker 3: The prosecution has yet to cross examine him.
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Speaker 1: But he is the one who is alleged, the prosecution alleges told Lindsey after the fact to say that a voice told her to do it.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, sorry, continuing on the run here now. The other major trial going on right now, we have the second day of testimony and the Tupac Shakur murder trial in Vegas. What a day. Sixty three year old Dwayne Davis charged with orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakor and supplying the gun that killed the rap Icon back in nineteen ninety six in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Yes, several members of Shakur's family left the courtroom as autopsy photos were shown to the jury revealing the four gunshot wounds that ultimately took his life. Look for folks who were in the courtroom, reporters, They described that the courtroom literally fell silent, and they were really graphic photos that these jurors saw, showing the chest tubes that were still in his body when he was in the hospital for those six days fighting for his life, showing his lung punctured, his abdomen ripped apart by the bullet holes. It was really really graphic footage, they said, photos.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is I mean that rap Icon, all the images we've seen of him over the years, and then to see him like that, I don't know, Robes, is this the first time those images have ever been seen in public?
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Speaker 1: Yes, his cousin actually talked to reporters out of court. He was one of the ones who actually stayed in the courtroom, but a lot of family members of Tubacs are in the actual courtroom. He said he didn't even know that four bullets hit his cousin. He didn't have any details. He said, he is learning what happened to his cousin all those years ago, because there was so much mystery surrounding his death.
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Speaker 2: If they're still learning, then we're certainly still learning a lot of this. For the first time, the jurors saw the surveillance video from the casino in Vegas hours before the murder, where a group of people were beating up kicking somebody on the ground, and then you see Tupac and his group moving through the casino afterwards, and prosecutor say Davis and his group were avenging that beating when they shot and killed Tupac and injured fellow rapper Suog Knight again a few hours later.
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Speaker 1: So this date brought several witnesses to the stand, but this one was a hell of a witness, a former gang member who worked security for Shoge Knight. That was by far the most interesting and frankly entertaining on the stand, James MacDonald was asked to be treated as a hostile witness. He was refusing. He's like, I'm not going to be saying anything about anybody. And then he directly addressed Davis in the courtroom and he said, what you're going through, brother, is what you're going through. I don't want to be a part of it. One of the more memorable moments. But the prosecutor actually asked him if he remembered fights or disputes that broke out over the years between the gangs. And he looked at the prosecutor and said, are you serious, And the whole courtroom broke into laughter. And then he told go ahead, silly question. Yeah, exactly. It was a ridiculous question. And then he told reporters when he got off the stand, I'm not going to send another black man to prison.
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Speaker 3: He just he refused to answer questions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, if you don't know, if you heard about this is on display street code. You do not talk and you do not turn or talk or do anything that's going to put a brother of yours in jail. You saw it play out, and it played out in I mean, how old's that guy at this point, right.
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Speaker 3: He's oh yeah, probably in the sixties.
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Speaker 2: He's an old dude now who's been through a lot. He can't give a damn up on the stand. And it came across the time. Yep, all right, continue on the run here now, we're going to head back to Florida. That state carried out it's nation leading thirteenth execution of the year last night. William Francis Sylvia declared dead at six eleven PM after being given a lethal injection.
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Speaker 1: Lethal injection and Sylvia had been on death row since the two thousand and six shooting death of his estranged wife.
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Speaker 3: He also seriously wounded.
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Speaker 1: His wife's mother, who attended last night's execution. I cannot imagine what that was like for that woman to have stared down her daughter's killer after he actually almost mortally wounded her. When asked if he had any last word, Sylvia said this, I'm sorry all this happened. It was an accident. I never meant to hurt her. That's interesting.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what that he probably could have stopped it. I'm sorry. The accident part is confusing. He walked into a party with a shotgun fired two times. In the air, then went after his wife, and then when the mother stepped in front, he pulled the trigger and shot the mom and then shot the wife. Yes, accidentally.
00:12:58
Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense. So that was a bizarre Yes. Addition to the I'm sorry. And by the way, Florida has two more executions scheduled for September.
00:13:07
Speaker 2: I continuing on the run here now it's Tuesday. It was Tuesday, Robes, Taco Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: This was not lost on me, you or probably anybody.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Taco Tuesday. It was yesterday. What happened yesterday? Well, a fifty percent tariff on Canadian goods was supposed to go into a fact but President Trump called it off at the last minute yesterday on Tuesday, saying a deal has been reached, but Canada's Prime minister is saying something else ropes.
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Speaker 1: That's right, President Trump announced via truth Social I have paused the fifty percent tariffs against Canada that were scheduled to kick in Wednesday morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the USA, subject to finalization of documents, have a deal. Exclamation point on Taco Tuesday. He always claims that there was some big some deal was begging him not to do something.
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Speaker 3: He was convinced not to do what he said he was going to do.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So we heard from Prime Minister Carney from Canada who said something very different or at least less definitive in his statement, only saying that substantial progress had been made, but there is important work that remains.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Taco Taco Taco Tuesday. Trump always chickens out. That is a thing that has caught on and for whatever reason, Robes he keeps going back on threats on Tuesdays.
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Speaker 3: Why, I don't know. He knows this right.
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Speaker 2: Maybe he embraces it now and he's doing it to Maybe he's doing that throwing folks from red meat. But as his amazing But yes, he's done it once again. We're not the only ones talking about it. Go online, it's doing gangbusters. He's done this again.
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Speaker 3: It's trending on x once again. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Nolan Wells will be honored at a rally in Mississippi today on what would have been his ninth teenth birthday. Wow, you and Nolan Wells, you brought this up to me earlier. This week's share the same birthday yeah.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize this about a week ago, but but yeah, it just kind of takes your breathway you think about what his life is, what it was, what it should be right now, and what it could have been the direction he was going. We act, Yeah, it's weird, shares the same. I shouldn't have outlived with this kid, right But the National Action Network is calling for a national day of prayer and to hold a virtual prayer vigil starting at eleven o'clock today. There will also be a live rally in Biloxi later tonight where Wells family is expected to attend. Bing Crump and some other big name folks are expected to be there as well.
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Speaker 1: Wells, as you might remember, went missing on the fourth of July weekend after going voting with the group of friends. His body was found two days later, and the medical examiner there in Mississippi has yet to release the findings of wells autopsy.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, we'll stay with us on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, the fight between ABC and the Trump administration continues in a new move has been made in court, this time by ABC. We'll explain also coming up. He was a legendary drummer with the legendary band who had the legendary beards. He has passed away.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, Welcome back everyone to our Wednesday morning Birthday run. Next up on the Run, ABC is fighting back against what it calls retaliation from the Trump administration. The network has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, claiming the FCC is retaliating against the company simply because it doesn't like its news covering.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the FCC has said it's going to require early renewal of ABC broadcast licenses, something ABC says is an existential threat to it. These licenses weren't up for renewal for several years, so they push this thing up. Look, it's a lot of this happens behind the scenes. The public never knows about it. But it's a really, really big deal. You can't lose your broadcast license because you can't do your job.
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Speaker 3: No, you cannot.
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Speaker 1: And the FCC says, yes, it was scrutinizing ABC because if it's DEI practices. But ABC will tell you that's not what this is about. This is actually about the administration's ongoing beef with Jimmy Kimmel as well as the Ladies of the View. Pretty well documented. But I don't know how you prove one or the.
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Speaker 2: Other because it's well documented. Also, lastly, on the run. Here now a legendary band that you immediately rose. That's nothing else, zz Top. Isn't that the first thought to your mind when you hear ZZU Top?
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Speaker 3: You think of the bearer, absolutely the beards.
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Speaker 2: But yes, this legendary band with their legendary beards, they have lost now their legendary drummer whose name happened to be Beard. Frank Beard passed away.
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Speaker 1: At the age of seventy seven, and Beard was a founding member of zz Top along with Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons. Beard formed the group back in nineteen sixty nine and would go on to sell fifty million records and according to his publicist, Beard died in hospice Careen, Texas with family by his side.
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Speaker 2: And the crazy thing here ropes. I be honest, I didn't remember this, but folks, you see zz Top in your mind right now, the two guys with the beards. The drummer in the back doesn't have one. It was just the two main guys robes, the guy, and the drummer always was clean shaven, maybe a mustache, but he never and his last name was Beard.
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Speaker 1: I love that little ironic fun fact that I did not know.
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Speaker 2: Also, I couldn't name a single zz Top song, but I started listening this morning and I was like, oh, yeah, that one, Oh yeah, that one. Everybody's crazy about it now, every lady's crazy about a sharp dressed man. Yeah. No. And then she's got legs.
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Speaker 3: The one I know, She's got legs.
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Speaker 1: That's the one that I feel like that would be the only one I could have named.
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Speaker 2: That was but I didn't really, But these are guys who were that kind of influential to where I can't name a song, but I know me song. It is really really cool. And the beards, by the way, obviously I did a deep guy on Easy Time were accidents because back in the sixties seventies they had a split with the group and the guys were in different places. There was no FaceTime, there was no video call, so the two lead guys had gotten lazy and they didn't shave, and they didn't know both of them had done this. So then when the band got together again, they saw each other and say Holy shit, you did that too, and they had these long beards and it just stuck.
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Speaker 1: A cool story and that just became like literally their brand, you know them by that, if nothing else.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was cool. And yes, his passing is sad. He was seventy seven, fairly young, but Roses gave us an opportunit listen to some music that makes you happy and learn something about this guy and this group. So it was cool, very cool.
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Speaker 1: I love the positive spin and the legacy they leave behind.
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Speaker 2: In some optimism, right, yes, optimism.
00:20:11
Speaker 1: So there was one point in the Morning Run that you might have seen that I got a little distracted because I decided to pull up.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to stay on the optimism theme.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, just this entire time we've been doing Morning Run, want to say there has been the most spectacular sunrise I have seen in days.
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Speaker 3: It has just been glorious and gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: We haven't said where we are all week, have we?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't think so, but I did put it on my social media.
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Speaker 1: I'll put a little bit Yes, Montreal, Montreal, and you know you got those beautiful frog legs you've been seeking out. Last night finally went to a French speaking company a country looking for some French cuisine possibly and found it, and found.
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Speaker 2: That they waiter looked at us like we were well me because I kept ordering frog ights.
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Speaker 3: This is so funny. TJ.
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Speaker 1: Ordered three separate orders of frog legs in one meal sitting last night. The waiter was even shocked, like I ordered dessert and you ordered another round of frog legs.
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Speaker 2: You know those two goes so well together.
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Speaker 3: It was I got chocolate moose and you got.
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Speaker 2: Have third order moo frog legs, please, all right?
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Speaker 1: So I got together several quotes, famous quotes about optimism for you to and so I got more than one quote in honor of your birthday, and optimism all right, Helen Keller. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Walt Whitman, keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you. Very poetic and true. And Frank, how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. And then Colin Powell will end with him. A perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Speaker 2: Perpetual optimism is a force.
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Speaker 1: Multiplier multiplier and then I don't know who Harvey McKay is.
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Speaker 3: Should I know who that is?
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Speaker 1: He? This is the last one. When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative. I choose to be an optimist.
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Speaker 2: Simple. It's that simple. I love it. And I'm looking this up again and you already it says I coached Roger Federer and Pete Sampers. This is what made them different and the whole thing is about optimism. It is so fascinating and it's so cool you use Colon Powell in there. He's one of my favorite people. I had a wonderful moment with him that was unexpected early in my career and I will never forget it. So that you threw him in there today, it's special. So I appreciate.
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Speaker 3: Happy birthday, baby.
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Speaker 1: We're going to have a wonderful, positive, uplifting, exciting day today to celebrate you. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm made Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Vacation Bostcats, Vacation Bus stat
Speaker 1: Hey there everybody, and thanks for joining us for today's morning ron. It is the best day of the year. It is Wednesday, August nineteenth.
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Speaker 2: Hump Day was hump Day in the middle of the summer.
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Speaker 1: Happy birthday, baby, it's your forty ninth birthday, your last year in your forties.
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Speaker 2: How are you feeling. I am feeling optimistic this morning. That is the word optimism. I feel great this morning. I didn't immediately, but I got things going and not Yes, optimistic is the word you say. Read this article in New York Times about a guy who coached Roger Federer and he talked about his optimism was his key to his victory. I found that article this morning. I read through it.
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Speaker 1: It got me going that isn't we should do an episode on that article because I think, you know, every single person sometimes just needs that coach, that person in their life to explain that, yes, you get what you aldtract.
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Speaker 2: I do believe that he was. He made a great point about Roger, one of the greatest champions ever, only won fifty four percent of his points. He only won half. But he's one of the greatest champions ever. How do you do that? Is because he was always looking ahead to the next thing. He never got caught up in what already happened or some big loss. He was able to manage the wins and the losses with the same optimism. Wow, it's a great and some of the stuff we already know and we studied. But whatever reason it got me going. If you all want to check it out, it was the coach for Roger Federer. He did an essay in the New York Times about optimism. Check it out. So, yes, that's why I am on this August nineteen.
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Speaker 3: That's fantastic. I want to hear more and I'm going to read it.
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Speaker 2: Yes, but yes, good morning to you all. Thank you Rose for the birthday wishes. We got a hell of a day planned here where we are outside of New York for now. But on the run this morning, Yes, the birthday run will be making several stops. Will make one in Vegas. Should have gone there for the birthday, will we make it stops in Vegas. We'll make a couple of stops on the run this morning in Florida. Also make a stop in Alaska, making a stop as well in the Bay Area. But let's start robes. I guess with the war in Iran. This will be a quick update.
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Speaker 1: It's not happening at least, the peace talks aren't and that's all according to President Trump. Yes, he said this on true social There are no talks or conversations going on or scheduled with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The naval blockade remains in full force and effect. The Hormone Street is open and operating. All water mines have been removed or detonated.
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Speaker 2: This sounds like it's over. He put out a statement saying there are no talks, there are no conversations, but it's all good because the strait is open. That's just not true by any measure. It's just so don't take Iran's word for it. Look at anybody keeping track of traffic roads. I didn't realize they were actually websites dedicated showed you exactly how many have gone through, how many are standing by. It ain't flowing, it's not happening. Robes. So I don't know what this statement is supposed to convey to the rest of the world. Yes, Iran didn't have to, but they did reiterate that the Strange is closed and it's not going to reopen until the US meets certain conditions. Here we are, but they're saying Iran and Oman Robes, those are the two who are working out a deal to open up the strait. I don't know where this tweet of his or post comes.
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Speaker 1: From, my goodness. All right, well, we'll continue to keep our eye on that. But next up on the run. Several states here in this country held primaries last night, and here's what you need to know.
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Speaker 3: First.
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Speaker 1: In the all important state of Florida, the matchup to replace Governor Ron death Warrant DeSantis.
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Speaker 3: That was your affectionate name.
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Speaker 2: You gave him affectionate, he earned it. What are you talking about. Yes, we'll get into them having another execution last night, but yes, they're trying to replace the Robes, who's right now clearing out the death warrant roles in that state. But we're talking about a Democrat, David Jolly is going to face Republican Congressman Byron Daniels. Even if you don't know Byron Daniels Donald's excuse me name, you'll see his face and go, oh, yeah, that guy, because he's been around to the past several years, kind of a rising star in the Republican party. He would become Robes the first black governor in that state's history. Wow. All right.
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Speaker 1: Meantime, in Alaska, all eyes were on the race for Senate, which is key if.
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Speaker 3: Democrats want to retake the Senate.
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Speaker 1: In this race, two guys with the same name, we're competing.
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Speaker 3: This is crazy.
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Speaker 1: There were two Dan Sullivan's on the ballot, One the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan, and two a political unknown and retired teacher also named Dan Sullivan.
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Speaker 2: Just a quinkie dink, right, Robes, just a kuinky dink. Well, Republicans didn't think so. They accused the second Dan Sullivan of actually being a Democratic plant who was put on the ballots specifically to confuse voters and possibly siphon votes away from Senator Dan Sullivan. This second Sulimon is not affiliate, no Democrat, no Republican, no political experience in the background. Just came out of nowhere. He had to fight and actually a court had to allow his name to be on the ballot because yes, Robes, they thought some uh, there was some shenanigans here.
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Speaker 3: That is ridiculous and if true, terrible.
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Speaker 1: Ultimately, Senator Sullivan advanced along with Democrat Representative Mary Poltoa. That was because they had the rank choice voting. So that's just a different way of doing things. But that allowed those two to advance. And then in California, the race has still not been called in the race to replace Yes, what do we say in battled or once in battle because now he's.
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Speaker 2: Just gone criminally investigated.
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Speaker 1: There you go, Eric Swallwells who we're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the fourteenth district seat has been vacant since he resigned in amidst all those sexual assault allegations. So, yes, what you have going on there to Aisha Wahab was holding a two percentage point lead as of this recording over Melissa Hernandez. Both of them are Democrats. So the way this works wrote this is a special election to fill out the rest of his seat. Then they're going to run again against each other in November two for a full two year term. So he created kind of a mess there, Yeah, everything mess that took place. The upset of the night though, was down in Florida Democratic Senate primary happening there. Progressive, not very well funded candidate pulled off a big win. This is a state lawmaker named Angie Nixon. She was out raised, outspent by more established Democrat, but won that primary with fifty six percent of the vote. Broke. That's a big deal. You know, progressives all over the country pulling off some of these primary upsets. This was a big one. She's going to face Ashley Moody to determine who'll finish out the remaining two years of Marco Rubio's term that he left he, of course, became Secretary of State. Wow.
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Speaker 1: Quite in politics, and a big day in our nation's courts will begin with what's happening in Massachusetts. The defense continued to make its case that thirty six year old Lindsay Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children.
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Speaker 3: Three years ago.
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Speaker 1: Clancy's former mother in law, Susan Clancy, took the stand on Tuesday, testifying Lindsay was begging for help in the months leading up to the killings.
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Speaker 2: Now Susan Clanzy described Lindsay as quote very nurturing and very loving. That text message between the two showed Lindsay expressing concern about her dependency on powerful psychiatric drugs. The defense also brought several medical professionals up who testify that Lindsay showed symptoms of postpartum depression months before the murders and that she likely had bipolar disorder.
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Speaker 1: That's right, and the prosecution did score some points on cross getting one witness to acknowledge there was no record of Lindsay telling doctors about.
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Speaker 3: Hearing those voices until after the killings.
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Speaker 1: And if you remember, she has claimed that a male voice told her that she had to kill her children and then herself. The trial is continuing today with more witnesses for the defense, but we're gonna have a full wrap. There was some powerful moments in court, some contentious moments in court that will tell you about in our next episode.
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Speaker 2: So as the point, they're trying to suggest she made up the voices part after the fact.
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Speaker 1: They're claiming that a doctor and he took the stand at the end of the day yesterday.
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Speaker 3: The prosecution has yet to cross examine him.
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Speaker 1: But he is the one who is alleged, the prosecution alleges told Lindsey after the fact to say that a voice told her to do it.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, sorry, continuing on the run here now. The other major trial going on right now, we have the second day of testimony and the Tupac Shakur murder trial in Vegas. What a day. Sixty three year old Dwayne Davis charged with orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakor and supplying the gun that killed the rap Icon back in nineteen ninety six in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: Yes, several members of Shakur's family left the courtroom as autopsy photos were shown to the jury revealing the four gunshot wounds that ultimately took his life. Look for folks who were in the courtroom, reporters, They described that the courtroom literally fell silent, and they were really graphic photos that these jurors saw, showing the chest tubes that were still in his body when he was in the hospital for those six days fighting for his life, showing his lung punctured, his abdomen ripped apart by the bullet holes. It was really really graphic footage, they said, photos.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is I mean that rap Icon, all the images we've seen of him over the years, and then to see him like that, I don't know, Robes, is this the first time those images have ever been seen in public?
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Speaker 1: Yes, his cousin actually talked to reporters out of court. He was one of the ones who actually stayed in the courtroom, but a lot of family members of Tubacs are in the actual courtroom. He said he didn't even know that four bullets hit his cousin. He didn't have any details. He said, he is learning what happened to his cousin all those years ago, because there was so much mystery surrounding his death.
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Speaker 2: If they're still learning, then we're certainly still learning a lot of this. For the first time, the jurors saw the surveillance video from the casino in Vegas hours before the murder, where a group of people were beating up kicking somebody on the ground, and then you see Tupac and his group moving through the casino afterwards, and prosecutor say Davis and his group were avenging that beating when they shot and killed Tupac and injured fellow rapper Suog Knight again a few hours later.
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Speaker 1: So this date brought several witnesses to the stand, but this one was a hell of a witness, a former gang member who worked security for Shoge Knight. That was by far the most interesting and frankly entertaining on the stand, James MacDonald was asked to be treated as a hostile witness. He was refusing. He's like, I'm not going to be saying anything about anybody. And then he directly addressed Davis in the courtroom and he said, what you're going through, brother, is what you're going through. I don't want to be a part of it. One of the more memorable moments. But the prosecutor actually asked him if he remembered fights or disputes that broke out over the years between the gangs. And he looked at the prosecutor and said, are you serious, And the whole courtroom broke into laughter. And then he told go ahead, silly question. Yeah, exactly. It was a ridiculous question. And then he told reporters when he got off the stand, I'm not going to send another black man to prison.
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Speaker 3: He just he refused to answer questions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, if you don't know, if you heard about this is on display street code. You do not talk and you do not turn or talk or do anything that's going to put a brother of yours in jail. You saw it play out, and it played out in I mean, how old's that guy at this point, right.
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Speaker 3: He's oh yeah, probably in the sixties.
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Speaker 2: He's an old dude now who's been through a lot. He can't give a damn up on the stand. And it came across the time. Yep, all right, continue on the run here now, we're going to head back to Florida. That state carried out it's nation leading thirteenth execution of the year last night. William Francis Sylvia declared dead at six eleven PM after being given a lethal injection.
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Speaker 1: Lethal injection and Sylvia had been on death row since the two thousand and six shooting death of his estranged wife.
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Speaker 3: He also seriously wounded.
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Speaker 1: His wife's mother, who attended last night's execution. I cannot imagine what that was like for that woman to have stared down her daughter's killer after he actually almost mortally wounded her. When asked if he had any last word, Sylvia said this, I'm sorry all this happened. It was an accident. I never meant to hurt her. That's interesting.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what that he probably could have stopped it. I'm sorry. The accident part is confusing. He walked into a party with a shotgun fired two times. In the air, then went after his wife, and then when the mother stepped in front, he pulled the trigger and shot the mom and then shot the wife. Yes, accidentally.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't make any sense. So that was a bizarre Yes. Addition to the I'm sorry. And by the way, Florida has two more executions scheduled for September.
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Speaker 2: I continuing on the run here now it's Tuesday. It was Tuesday, Robes, Taco Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: This was not lost on me, you or probably anybody.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Taco Tuesday. It was yesterday. What happened yesterday? Well, a fifty percent tariff on Canadian goods was supposed to go into a fact but President Trump called it off at the last minute yesterday on Tuesday, saying a deal has been reached, but Canada's Prime minister is saying something else ropes.
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Speaker 1: That's right, President Trump announced via truth Social I have paused the fifty percent tariffs against Canada that were scheduled to kick in Wednesday morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the USA, subject to finalization of documents, have a deal. Exclamation point on Taco Tuesday. He always claims that there was some big some deal was begging him not to do something.
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Speaker 3: He was convinced not to do what he said he was going to do.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So we heard from Prime Minister Carney from Canada who said something very different or at least less definitive in his statement, only saying that substantial progress had been made, but there is important work that remains.
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Speaker 2: Okay. Taco Taco Taco Tuesday. Trump always chickens out. That is a thing that has caught on and for whatever reason, Robes he keeps going back on threats on Tuesdays.
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Speaker 3: Why, I don't know. He knows this right.
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Speaker 2: Maybe he embraces it now and he's doing it to Maybe he's doing that throwing folks from red meat. But as his amazing But yes, he's done it once again. We're not the only ones talking about it. Go online, it's doing gangbusters. He's done this again.
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Speaker 3: It's trending on x once again. All right.
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Nolan Wells will be honored at a rally in Mississippi today on what would have been his ninth teenth birthday. Wow, you and Nolan Wells, you brought this up to me earlier. This week's share the same birthday yeah.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize this about a week ago, but but yeah, it just kind of takes your breathway you think about what his life is, what it was, what it should be right now, and what it could have been the direction he was going. We act, Yeah, it's weird, shares the same. I shouldn't have outlived with this kid, right But the National Action Network is calling for a national day of prayer and to hold a virtual prayer vigil starting at eleven o'clock today. There will also be a live rally in Biloxi later tonight where Wells family is expected to attend. Bing Crump and some other big name folks are expected to be there as well.
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Speaker 1: Wells, as you might remember, went missing on the fourth of July weekend after going voting with the group of friends. His body was found two days later, and the medical examiner there in Mississippi has yet to release the findings of wells autopsy.
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Speaker 2: All right, folks, we'll stay with us on this Wednesday morning run. When we come back, the fight between ABC and the Trump administration continues in a new move has been made in court, this time by ABC. We'll explain also coming up. He was a legendary drummer with the legendary band who had the legendary beards. He has passed away.
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Speaker 1: Stay here, Welcome back everyone to our Wednesday morning Birthday run. Next up on the Run, ABC is fighting back against what it calls retaliation from the Trump administration. The network has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission, claiming the FCC is retaliating against the company simply because it doesn't like its news covering.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the FCC has said it's going to require early renewal of ABC broadcast licenses, something ABC says is an existential threat to it. These licenses weren't up for renewal for several years, so they push this thing up. Look, it's a lot of this happens behind the scenes. The public never knows about it. But it's a really, really big deal. You can't lose your broadcast license because you can't do your job.
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Speaker 3: No, you cannot.
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Speaker 1: And the FCC says, yes, it was scrutinizing ABC because if it's DEI practices. But ABC will tell you that's not what this is about. This is actually about the administration's ongoing beef with Jimmy Kimmel as well as the Ladies of the View. Pretty well documented. But I don't know how you prove one or the.
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Speaker 2: Other because it's well documented. Also, lastly, on the run. Here now a legendary band that you immediately rose. That's nothing else, zz Top. Isn't that the first thought to your mind when you hear ZZU Top?
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Speaker 3: You think of the bearer, absolutely the beards.
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Speaker 2: But yes, this legendary band with their legendary beards, they have lost now their legendary drummer whose name happened to be Beard. Frank Beard passed away.
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Speaker 1: At the age of seventy seven, and Beard was a founding member of zz Top along with Dusty Hill and Billy Gibbons. Beard formed the group back in nineteen sixty nine and would go on to sell fifty million records and according to his publicist, Beard died in hospice Careen, Texas with family by his side.
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Speaker 2: And the crazy thing here ropes. I be honest, I didn't remember this, but folks, you see zz Top in your mind right now, the two guys with the beards. The drummer in the back doesn't have one. It was just the two main guys robes, the guy, and the drummer always was clean shaven, maybe a mustache, but he never and his last name was Beard.
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Speaker 1: I love that little ironic fun fact that I did not know.
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Speaker 2: Also, I couldn't name a single zz Top song, but I started listening this morning and I was like, oh, yeah, that one, Oh yeah, that one. Everybody's crazy about it now, every lady's crazy about a sharp dressed man. Yeah. No. And then she's got legs.
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Speaker 3: The one I know, She's got legs.
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Speaker 1: That's the one that I feel like that would be the only one I could have named.
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Speaker 2: That was but I didn't really, But these are guys who were that kind of influential to where I can't name a song, but I know me song. It is really really cool. And the beards, by the way, obviously I did a deep guy on Easy Time were accidents because back in the sixties seventies they had a split with the group and the guys were in different places. There was no FaceTime, there was no video call, so the two lead guys had gotten lazy and they didn't shave, and they didn't know both of them had done this. So then when the band got together again, they saw each other and say Holy shit, you did that too, and they had these long beards and it just stuck.
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Speaker 1: A cool story and that just became like literally their brand, you know them by that, if nothing else.
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Speaker 2: I thought it was cool. And yes, his passing is sad. He was seventy seven, fairly young, but Roses gave us an opportunit listen to some music that makes you happy and learn something about this guy and this group. So it was cool, very cool.
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Speaker 1: I love the positive spin and the legacy they leave behind.
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Speaker 2: In some optimism, right, yes, optimism.
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Speaker 1: So there was one point in the Morning Run that you might have seen that I got a little distracted because I decided to pull up.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to stay on the optimism theme.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, just this entire time we've been doing Morning Run, want to say there has been the most spectacular sunrise I have seen in days.
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Speaker 3: It has just been glorious and gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: We haven't said where we are all week, have we?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? I don't think so, but I did put it on my social media.
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Speaker 1: I'll put a little bit Yes, Montreal, Montreal, and you know you got those beautiful frog legs you've been seeking out. Last night finally went to a French speaking company a country looking for some French cuisine possibly and found it, and found.
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Speaker 2: That they waiter looked at us like we were well me because I kept ordering frog ights.
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Speaker 3: This is so funny. TJ.
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Speaker 1: Ordered three separate orders of frog legs in one meal sitting last night. The waiter was even shocked, like I ordered dessert and you ordered another round of frog legs.
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Speaker 2: You know those two goes so well together.
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Speaker 3: It was I got chocolate moose and you got.
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Speaker 2: Have third order moo frog legs, please, all right?
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Speaker 1: So I got together several quotes, famous quotes about optimism for you to and so I got more than one quote in honor of your birthday, and optimism all right, Helen Keller. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Walt Whitman, keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you. Very poetic and true. And Frank, how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. And then Colin Powell will end with him. A perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Speaker 2: Perpetual optimism is a force.
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Speaker 1: Multiplier multiplier and then I don't know who Harvey McKay is.
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Speaker 3: Should I know who that is?
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Speaker 1: He? This is the last one. When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative. I choose to be an optimist.
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Speaker 2: Simple. It's that simple. I love it. And I'm looking this up again and you already it says I coached Roger Federer and Pete Sampers. This is what made them different and the whole thing is about optimism. It is so fascinating and it's so cool you use Colon Powell in there. He's one of my favorite people. I had a wonderful moment with him that was unexpected early in my career and I will never forget it. So that you threw him in there today, it's special. So I appreciate.
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Speaker 3: Happy birthday, baby.
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Speaker 1: We're going to have a wonderful, positive, uplifting, exciting day today to celebrate you. And with that, everyone, thank you for running with us. I'm made Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes.
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Speaker 2: Vacation Bostcats, Vacation Bus stat