July 22, 2026

(Wednesday) Morning Run: Nolan Wells Autopsy, D4vd Gruesome Evidence, $70 Billion For Iran, Cyclospora “Under Control”, Kong Teen Actress Death, Legionnaires 5th Death, Lost Plane Found and Identical Girl Quadruplets

(Wednesday) Morning Run: Nolan Wells Autopsy, D4vd Gruesome Evidence, $70 Billion For Iran, Cyclospora “Under Control”,  Kong Teen Actress Death,  Legionnaires 5th Death, Lost Plane Found and Identical Girl Quadruplets

Robach and Holmes cover the latest news headlines and entertainment updates and give perspective on current events in their daily “Morning Run.”

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there everybody, and good morning. Thanks for joining us for today's morning run. It's Wednesday, July twenty second. I'm Amy Robots.

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Speaker 2: And I'm TJ. Holmes and going to see The Odyssey was one of the most exciting movie experiences I have had in a long time, robes that had nothing to do with what was on screen. That was a hell of a movie day. Thank you for dragging me to it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we went in pouring rain to a packed theater at three pm on US Wednesday, and there was none other than a very special guest in the audience that required secret service.

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Speaker 2: So that was yes, part of the adventure there you walk into. But it was a packed house on three o'clock on Wednesday because where we are we talked about, Look, we're in the Hamptons right now, and the audience at three in the afternoon is not on the younger side.

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Speaker 1: Apparently they don't understand the concept of assigned seats.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I got y'all. This was chaos before this movie. We missed the first five to ten minutes of the movie because people were standing up ushers and ball trying to get people to the right seats. Nobody was in the right and then.

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Speaker 1: They refused to move like they didn't want to get out of their seats, and you were watching somebody explain to them why they can't sit in a seat that they didn't sign up for.

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Speaker 2: Oh and somebody were in our seats. Yeah, we showed up.

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Speaker 3: It was It was hilarious.

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Speaker 2: We could talk about the movie later, but it really was the first thing we talked about when we came out. Yulia savine I said, you guys want to talk about the movie first, of the movie experience first. It was a blast. But yes, the movie is a hell of a flick. I mean what movie making.

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Speaker 3: I think epic would be the way to describe it. Yes, and long, very long.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but hello, good morning to you all. On our morning run this morning, will be making stops in Chicago on Capitol Hill, France, Maryland, the upper east side of Man also and the water is off the coast of San Juan. Also make a stop in an LA courtroom and an Australian delivery room. But let's start robes. Don't you just hate when you have to go beg people for money and they make you justify why you want that money, and you don't really have a good reason.

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Speaker 3: I haven't been there since I was about sixteen.

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Speaker 2: Well, Hegseth found himself there yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the cost of war keeps going up by the billions. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Senate committee yesterday that the Iran war price tag is now at thirty seven point five billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: But that wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: In the next breath, he then asked senators to approve another seventy billion dollars in emergency Pentagon funding, mostly for weapons production.

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Speaker 2: Alight, we're not too keen on just handing over that money. We'll see where that appropriation's request goes. Continuing on our run here, I follow up from yesterday, and it turns out, on second thought, maybe it's not such a good idea for the Mayor of New York to try to arrest the Prime Minister of Israel. Yes, Robes, we were talking about this potential dust up here yesterday with Mayor's Orhan Mamdani threatening to arrest Benjamin Netanyahoo when he visits New York for the UN General Assembly in September.

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Speaker 1: Net Nyahoo has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, which issued a warrant for his arrest back in twenty twenty four. Upon hearing about mom Donnie's intentions, President Trump quickly chimed in, saying net and Yahoo would not be arrested in any way, shape or form.

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Speaker 2: So it seems that mamdannie has kind of backed down a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: He has posted a video on social media and he admits that quote it is clear we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. But then robes he went on to say he sure wishes the federal government would enforce that.

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Speaker 1: He wishes, Yeah, I don't think that's going to be granted. Next up on the Run, we expect to hear from the first autopsy results for Nolan Wells today. The family attorney Ben Crump says they are going to announce the findings of their independent autopsy this morning.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think nine o'clock in Chicago time is when that is supposed to happen. Eighteen year old Wells died under mysterious circumstances after partying with friends on the fourth of July weekend. One hundred thousand dollars reward now being offered for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case, though authorities have not suggested that there was foul play all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the Run, prosecutors will continue going through graphic evidence in their case against singer David, who is charged with killing and dismembering fourteen year old Celeste Revs Hernandez. His long awaited and previously much delayed preliminary hearing officially got underway yesterday, and prosecutors showed gruesome photos of celeste decomposed body.

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Speaker 2: You know, robes. We watch and cover a lot of trials and we always appreciate when they're care in the courtroom. Some of the stuff we're getting out of the I understand why maybe they don't want this live stream, that it's too much. It's tough to even read some of this stuff. They went through receipts of several online purchases for chainsaws, of burn cage, inflatable pools, shovels, all the tools the state claims David used to dispose of Hernandez's body. The prosecutor says he will he will have to decide. Still, he doesn't know for sure whether or not he is going to seek the death penalty in this case, and roads we should mention so Lester Rubus Hernandez's parents sacked through the hearing yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That was a remarkable detail that I was not expecting because oftentimes in these cases, anytime an autopsy report is even spoken of, the victims' families will remove themselves from the courtroom, understandably because it's just too much to bear. But they were described as staring straight ahead and watching it all and taking it all in as those gruesome photos were revealed in I don't know how they did that, I imagine just to honor their daughter to be there, to be present, to not leave that courtroom. And David, whose real name is David Burke, by the way, has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

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Speaker 2: It's turned down to the cyclospora outbreak, which is now a record. This is now officially the worst year that we have ever had for cyclospora cases in the US. The CDC yesterday said there are officially four one and fifty three confirmed cases in the country and that's the highest number ever in a single year. And it bears it needs some explaining.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because look, we've been saying this for two days now because other entities have been saying this, Yes, this is officially the worst outbreak, but the CDC is way behind. Just for some perspective, the state of Michigan is reporting. Just the state of Michigan has sixty five hundred cases in their states, So that doesn't make those CDC numbers make any sense. Their official count lags behind other states counts. The national number is much higher because they're just behind the ball, right, They're just slow to get the numbers count.

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Speaker 2: But once they catch up with all of the states that are reporting, I wonder how many official cases. Yeah it they're actually going to end.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be significantly higher.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, with all this chaos, confusion and rising numbers, we've got RFK Junior, the head of HHS, saying, don't worry everybody, it's all quote under control, end quote.

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Speaker 3: Don't we all feel better now?

00:07:29
Speaker 2: I told you we needed a voice to come out. Maybe he was listening to us and we said we need some leadership with us.

00:07:34
Speaker 3: Exactly what we needed to hear came out.

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Speaker 2: And said we got it under control. Continuing on the run here, now, let's take next lego our run over to France. Where that country has become the first European nation to pass a social media band. Lawmakers voted to approve the measure, which would prevent all kids under the age of fifteen from using social media. Is that the right age? What did Australia do?

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Speaker 3: What age was I thought it was like thirteen? Yeah, fifteen seems pretty high. That's high school, that's sophomore year of high school. That seems unreasonable to me.

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Speaker 2: Reasonable, Yeah, I think.

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Speaker 3: Look, I think that it makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Like anything one below high school, middle school and down, fifteen's kind of old.

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Speaker 3: You can drive in a lot of states at fifteen.

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Speaker 2: All right, French president were spoken as a woman whose kids are way past fifteen.

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Speaker 3: That is true, That is true.

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Speaker 1: French president of Macrone said he'd liked for the band to go in effect in time for the next school year.

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Speaker 3: And look, I do think it's a good idea.

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Speaker 1: I do think that there is no good reason why young kids should be on social media.

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Speaker 3: There's only bad reasons.

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. And again they don't know if it'll go into effect in time because there is some official government review that it has to go through.

00:08:48
Speaker 1: All right, Next up on the run, This was a sad and shocking story because we love this movie and we love this actress and she was just a little dull baby. A young actress featured in and the blockbuster Kong movies has died in a car accident at.

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Speaker 3: The young age of eighteen. Her name is Kaylie Hoddle.

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Speaker 1: She played that little deaf girl who formed a bond with Kong in two movies, twenty twenty one's Godzilla Versus Kong and the twenty twenty four follow up, Godzilla Kong the New Empire.

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Speaker 2: Her father actually made the announcement, says she died in a car accident in Maryland. She was a senior at the Texas School for the Death and Robes. I didn't realize she is from a multi generational deaf family. Father's deaf as well. But she could obviously sign perfectly in those movies. But it was she was a highlight of the movies that included so much action and so much violentce. She was the sweet, your little heart. She had this great little bond with another wonderful actress in the movie. This was shocking and sucked to hear it.

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Speaker 1: Just yeah, and I only saw this movie because you love them and so I've watched them with you, and you I remember every time, and we've watched the movie.

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Speaker 2: You go.

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Speaker 1: Look at that little girl she is, and she's such a phenomenal actress. I was reading about the folks who had worked with her said that the subtleties on her face and it may even have come from her disability where she was able to hone facial expressions and other senses to the way where you really felt like, I mean, she took you along with her because an actress.

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Speaker 2: Right, she couldn't say and get the emotion out that way. I didn't think about it that much, but she was such an effective actress in doing that and conveying so much with her face. If you haven't seen those movies, watch them just for her, and this is a good time for a movie. Maybe you wouldn't watch a lot of agreed agreed. First one, it was Cang versus uh Godzilla Godzilla Vers's cong which ordered her to go. In twenty twenty one, Godzilla Vers's Kong.

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Speaker 1: That was it, Ugh, she was so good in it. What a sad, sad story, all right? Next up on the wrong, Yet another person has died of Legionnaire's disease a mid a cluster of cases Manhattan's Upper east Side.

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Speaker 3: This is getting scary.

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Speaker 2: What is happening every day? You know what? Every day? This week it's Wednesday. Yeah, we have reported on an increase every single day. So here we go again. A fifth person always die. They've up to eighty two cases now, several people still in the hospital. This has been tied to this recent outbreak to infected water cooling towers and dozens of buildings and again ropes Lesionaire's disease usually not fatal, but it's bacteria found in water and can call some pretty severe pneumonia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, usually being the operative word. Because five deaths is a serious That's a significant situation going on there, all right. Next up on the run, the widow of the late actor Malcolm Jamal Warner is suing his mother for one point two seven six million dollars. Tanisha Warner is suing Pamela Warner, who is the trustee of the Warner Family Trust.

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Speaker 2: And you hate to see this back and forth timely now, but Tanisha claims Malcolm never followed through on several of the promises in their prenuptial agreement, including a million dollar life insurance policy with her as the sole beneficiary. Also annual sixteen thousand dollars payments to a fund and a rough ra for her. Also a five thousand dollars monthly salary for serving as his chief of staff and assistant during their marriage. Totally one hundred and ninety five thousand dollars and more than fifty thousand in anniversary payments. So she's essentially saying, I guess she's owed all this money. He didn't follow through on things while he was alive, so he's saying, you're a state, owes it to me?

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Speaker 3: Correct?

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Speaker 1: And she said that there isn't enough money in I guess their personal accounts or his account that she might have had access to to fund all of this, So she's having to go into the family trust that he funded to get that money. And just remember, I couldn't believe it was almost exactly a year ago. Babe Malcolm drowned while vacationing in Costa Rica on July twentieth of twenty twenty five. He was only fifty four years old. It was oh, it was unexpected, it was sad, it was sudden, and now.

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Speaker 3: This is it's just not what you want to hear a year later.

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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us here, folks, on this Wednesday morning run when we come back. You know that soccer match you were watching on Sunday, Yes, you were watching. It turns out everybody was watching. Yes, we'll tell you the record setting numbers. Also, they just found a plane they've been looking for for seventy five years. Why it's important to you. It has changed the way you fly right now. Also, a woman has given birth. She already had four kids, and she just doubled the family. All right, was welcome back to this Wednesday morning run. And that was we need to get through it because you are hungry as hell. That was the loudest I ever heard. I didn't know a stomach could growl that loudly.

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Speaker 3: Really, thanks for calling me up, but it was pretty intense.

00:13:54
Speaker 2: That was something you got explosive hunger. You got the opposite. But please, let's get through that, all right.

00:14:03
Speaker 1: The World Cup Final, dude, the largest US audience for a soccer match ever.

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Speaker 3: It breaks down this way.

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Speaker 1: Roughly thirty nine million people watched the English language broadcast.

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Speaker 3: And that's a record.

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Speaker 1: You don't hear about thirty nine million people watching anything collectively ever, let alone a soccer.

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Speaker 2: Match, and certainly not in the United States. And then also here in the United States, another twenty four million watched in the US via Spanish language. It was on Telemundo, so combined you got more than sixty million viewers in the United States. But yeah, just the thirty nine million English language and alone would's been naze enough to break the record. So don't know if this will get MLS numbers and things up later, we'll see, But right now, people got soccer.

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Speaker 3: For you, all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, the wreckage of a plane that crashed it seen nearly seventy five years ago, has finally been located. A pan am flight that was headed from San Juan, Puerto Rico to New York crashed and sank in the Atlantic Ocean on April eleventh, nineteen fifty two.

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Speaker 2: Sixty four passengers, five crew aboard seventeen actually survived the crash. Now, fifty two people ended up ultimately dying. Thirty nine bodies were recovered. They had never recovered never excuse me, So yes, this is this site is significant. Ro this is a cemetery that we're talking about the accident changed plane travel. This the story is fascinating. So this led to significant safety changes, including the pre flight safety briefing that you experience now and rods. There's a reason this crash. They most of them survived.

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Speaker 3: This is crazy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I got chills from head to toe because yes, initially everyone survived. Basically just the tail sheared off, so the main body of the cabin was fully intact. But there was no safety briefing, no coordinated evacuation plan. And even though you know you have those flirtation devices under every seat, there were life rafts on the plane, everything everyone needed to survive that crash. Most of the passengers remained in their seats, in their seat belt, and the aircraft sank in three minutes, so the majority of folks drowned unnecessarily. Only twelve passengers and five crew members survived.

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Speaker 2: And we generally everybody listening, do you pay attention to that briefing?

00:16:22
Speaker 1: No?

00:16:22
Speaker 2: When the flight attendant stands up there.

00:16:25
Speaker 1: No, But there's a plan and the flight attendants know it. And I think I've heard it so much. I know where my flotation devices, it's under my seat. But yeah, and this plane is largely intact. It's nearly two thousand feet down resting on the ocean floor. They're going to create a memorial for those who died because again they're entombed in that plane. Blow thirty nine people who were on board that plane in nineteen fifty two.

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Speaker 3: All right, for the.

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Speaker 1: Final leg of our run. This story is my favorite of the day. It makes me smile. This is incredible. I can't even imagine a woman gave birth to four identical daughters last week and doctor say it's a one in fifteen million occurrence. The quads came from a single egg that split into four embryos who all shared the same placenta. That is incredible. You're not sharing the enthusiasm.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, uh oh, the enthusiasm. This is well. I'm trying to figure out the one in fifteen million, Like, just how rare I mean, I hear that number. I'm trying to get my head around that number. And then hearing the four embryos shared the same placenta. I'm trying to scientifically. Okay, you're like, you're envisioning it. So this is literally unheard of. That's basically how to put it.

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Speaker 1: And it's the first ever documented case for this hospital in Queensland, Australia with a thirty four year old mom gave birth the a cesarean section. She delivered all four girls, who were healthy, twenty eight weeks into her pregnancy. That's pretty remarkable and I love this. Their names are Emily, Harriet, Catherine, and Alexa. And Alexa was named after the delivery doctor whose name is doctor Alexa Bendel. So that was a cute nod to their delivery doctor. And you mentioned the family. Yeah, no, that was no, it's a little I don't know. I just didn't flow with Emily, Harriet and Catherine. But you mentioned those are cute, they're like classic names. But you mentioned the size of the family. They already had four kids. Can you imagine you're thinking, should we add a fifth? You may be talking back and forth. Heay, you know what, let's go ahead and have five. That's a that's a good number.

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Speaker 2: This is this is gonna be life changing.

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Speaker 3: Yes, because if you have identical twins. It's not as if she was.

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Speaker 1: Taking or she had, you know, several embryos implanted in her. She was taking clomid to try and increase egg production. No, she just had one egg split four ways unexpectedly and miraculously and now they got eight kids.

00:18:58
Speaker 2: But identical before going to be identical.

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Speaker 3: Yes, isn't that amazing?

00:19:03
Speaker 2: That is going to be trouble. That's going to be so much fun. Those kids are going to be a blas.

00:19:07
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine that.

00:19:09
Speaker 1: Oh we know one set of triplets in our lives, and every time I see them, they crack me up.

00:19:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they're older Bruno. Yeah, that's weird. It's creepy because.

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Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, there's Bruno. Oh my god, it's so weird. No, we love Bruno. All right, On this Wednesday, on this hump day, here is your quote of the day. And I actually picked it from a Greek philosopher as a nod to watching uh Odysseus. All right, this is from Epictitis. A healthy man wants a thousand things, A sick man only wants one.

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Speaker 3: Be grateful.

00:19:50
Speaker 2: I get it.

00:19:52
Speaker 3: It's really good perspective.

00:19:54
Speaker 1: A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one. Be grateful. Thank you, ancient Greek philosopher for that wisdom that still means something today. And with that everyone, we always appreciate you.

00:20:08
Speaker 3: Listening to us. I'm Amy Robot and.

00:20:10
Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. We're run sick,