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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good
morning everyone, It's Tuesday, December sixteenth.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'm Amy Robox and I'm TJ Holmes, and even I
know Luke and Laura. Right, this was before my day,
This was way before I was ever. I've never been
a watcher of daytime soap operas, but I know General Hospital.
I know my mama watched this stuff, and I know
Luke and Laura. What a sad note here about Anthony Geary.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
That I was actually devastated when I woke up. I
watched Luke and Laura's wedding, as so many of you
did listening. I know with my mom we were huge
General Hospital fans, and yes, I think, like all young women,
I had a massive crush on Luke and we were
all rooting for Luke and Laura.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
What a story just that was such a part of
pop culture that I don't even know why. I know
Luke and Laura. I know that wedding and it was
in eighty one, wow, far back. Yes it was an
eighty one still being talked about. But you know, we'll
take a moment to talk about Anthony Geary again. I
know two things I know Luke and Laura, and I
know Susan Luci. Yeah, that's as a non watcher. Those
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are two things.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
All my children in General Hospital. I was a huge
AVC soap opera fan growing up.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It was always on.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
I remember in college racing back from we didn't have
whatever a way to record. I would race back from
my classes to watch General Hospital.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Feel sad to hear about his passing. We'll get into
that a little bit this morning. Also a reminder, still,
nobody wants to win this billion dollars. Somebody Now it's cool.
Somebody's going to have a really cool Christmas. So now
one point twenty five billion dollars is up for grabbing.
Powerball will tell you what didn't happen, of course, and
the last drawing and when is the next drawing. But
everybody needs to be involved. This is a really cool story.
(01:47):
Usually I'm jealous when people win the lottery, but at
Christmas time, somebody's gonna get their hands on this, and
it's that's gonna be a cool story.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And then maybe there'll be multiple winners.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
You know, if you catch a certain amount, you get
you know, a million, heare a million there, all.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Of it go.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It was a very long way, especially this time of year.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, but a reminder is always folks. Top right corner
of your screen, where it says subscribe, it says follow
click that button you can subscribe to our podcast. Get
all our updates as they're coming throughout the day. Also,
I want to start here at the top, just giving
you a heads up. Yes, people are starting, not quite panic,
but starting to scramble a little bit because of they're
trying to get all these gifts to where they're supposed
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to be on time. It's one thing if everybody's in
your house and you just got to go to the
store and get some under the tree, but a lot
of us got to get stuff certain places. So we
wanted to give you a heads up that the Postal Service,
FedEx and UPS have now put out your deadlines for
getting stuff in the mail to guarantee at least they
say that they can get it to where it needs
to be by Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So tomorrow, December seventeenth, that is the deadline for first
class mail. The following day, the eighteenth, is the deadline
for Priority mail, and December twentieth that is your Priority
Mail Express deadline to get it there before Christmas.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's all through the US Postal Service.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, and that's they they say, we can't guarantee anything
after December twentieth. That makes sense, it does. But some
other companies, FedEx in particular, they say tomorrow, yes, the seventeenth,
there's five day shipping. You can still do. After that,
there's four day, three day, two days. So it goes
all the way up to December twenty third, where you
can do the regular one day shipping. Now that's cutting
it close and it's going to be expensive. But Robes,
(03:21):
I didn't know. They say December twenty fourth, they still
you will still have options for some FedEx same day. Obviously,
that's not I was gonna.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Say, how much is that gonna cost you? Maybe more
than the present itself.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I will guarantee you will cost you more than the present,
but we just letting you know what your options are.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I have had that happen where you're like, oh my god,
this is my own fault. But now I have just doubled,
and maybe I should just give this person cash because it.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Makes zero sense to do what I'm doing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yes and ups December nineteenth, three day select deadline December
twenty second is your two day air. That's pretty remarkable
in December twenty third, next day air again, they're available.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
We'll cost you just want you to know. Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Also on the Run this morning, the FDA says stores
did not pull tainted baby formula fast enough. That is
a scary story. Also Trump suing another media outlet, this
time for ten billion dollars, and the FED say they
have stopped a New Year's Eve terror plot on Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Plus coming up on the Run this morning, execution is
put on hold. Brian Walsh is guilty, Marjorie Taylor Green
is engaged. Cooper flag is awesome, And slop is your
new word of the year. I didn't realize we get
so many. We're up to four maybe between the Merrion Webster,
Dictionary dot com, who Cambridgeford, Yeah they did, so there's
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a bunch. But slop. I didn't know this. But it's
again connected to media AI. No, it has evolved since
those days. We will get into that, but we do
have to start the run this morning with the latest
on to still developing story. He's won the manhunt for
that Brown University mass shooter, and also the update on
the deaths of Rob and Michelle Reiner.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
That's right, So bail has now been revoked for their son,
thirty two year old Nick Reiner. He is currently being
held for the murder of his parents, of course, famed
Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle. His bail
was initially set at four million dollars, but they decided
to end that, revoke it all together. And we're getting
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a few details now about how this all went down.
His own daughter, their youngest daughter, romy is actually who
found her parents dead on Sunday afternoon. That is just
an unimaginable thing. Police have not gotten specific or even
said the manner of death, but certainly there are plenty
of outlets who are reporting that the couple was stabbed
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to death, their throats were slit, And now we're hearing
word that there was a heated argument that was witnessed
by several people at a party at Conan O'Brien's house
night before, or perhaps even the night of the murders.
He was there with his parents and a lot of
folks were talking about Nick's bizarre behavior that night.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
And more and more starting to come out, and I
didn't realize the background the troubled relationship that this son
had with the family to the point they documented it
even in a film, so they were kind of open
about it. But more and more starting to come out.
Just a horrific story out of LA. We do anticipate,
is that, right Ropes multiple reports that they are anticipating
at court hearing.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Yes, we are some folks who are reporting that there
is an actual hearing that is taking place this morning
in Los Angeles. But certainly, I think most outlets have
reported that the prosecutor's office is now going to be
determining specific charges that they will be filing against Nick today.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
All right, continue on the run here now, and as
an outpouring of condolences poured in for the Ryan Or family,
you might have heard about President Trump's reaction. In a
universally condemned and pretty shocking even for him, social media post,
the President openly mocked the deaths of the Reiners.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Here's the post, the President writing this, A very sad
thing happened last night in Hollywood. Reiner, a tortured and
struggling but once very talented movie director and comedy star,
has passed away together with his wife, Michelle, reportedly due
to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding
and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as
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Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to as TDS.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
He did not stop there, folks. He went on to
say that Reiner quote was known to have driven people
crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump,
with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump
administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with
the golden Age of America up on us perhaps like
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never before. May Rob and Michelle rest in peace is
how he ended it.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Okay, A lot of folks have weighed in and from
both sides of the aisle, and as you pointed out,
equally condemning those remarks in the hours following news of
this couple's tragic passing.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
And didn't they have a legit? There were some on
the right that I thought had a legit argument. After
Charlie Kirk passed, there were some things said that absolutely,
I mean, I can believe that stuff would come out
of those people's mouths. This is that you have no
moral high ground.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Equally disturbing and disgusting.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Oh, this is the worst thing I've seen anywhere about
any of these desks. And yes it matters that he
came from the mouth of the President of United States.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yes it does.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
And so when the White House was asked about it,
the response came directly from the President himself, who this
shouldn't shock anyone, doubled down. He said, I wasn't a
fan at all when referring to Rob Reiner, calling Rob
Reiner a deranged person, says he was one of the
people behind the Russia hoax, and he said he thought
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that Rob Reiner was quote very bad for our country. Look,
Rob Reiner was an now spoken critic of President Trump.
That's fine, that's where we are. He didn't agree with
his policies. But to say what he said about this
man who's tragically passed and violently was murdered by his
own son is frankly inexcusable and indefensible.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Can't celebrate. Don't care where your politics are. And even
if you hate everything Rob Reiner stood for politically, I
dare you to say he hasn't had an impact on
your entertainment life. You obviously loved at least one and
probably all of his movies.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
I can't find a movie I didn't like, of course,
So if you think politics outside.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Of it cannot celebrate somebody's death that way, you just
can't do it, all right, Continuing on the run here
now and the other major still developing an unbelievable story
that's out there now. The gunment responsible for that deadly
shooting at Brown University is still on the loose. Today.
This day starts a third full day of this person
(10:00):
being out there on the runt and rows. From what
we're seeing from police, they don't seem to have much,
no good.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
They're begging for help from anyone who sees or knows anything.
But the shooting happened, to remind everyone, on Saturday afternoon
on the campus of Brown University, inside a classroom where
students were studying for their finals. Two were killed, nine
others were injured. There is new surveillance video, and in
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that video you see the gunman five to eight looks stocky,
dressed in all black. He's wearing a mask. I did
see a little bit of a close up of his face,
more so than I've seen before, but still it's incredibly
difficult to discern him from anyone else who might loosely
match his description.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Did you tell was it more of a mask, for
the lack of a better term, a criminal mask, or
was it looked like it looked like.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
A COVID black COVID mask is what it looked like.
It looked like a surgical mask that was black. And
right now, the FBI is offering a fifty thousand dollars
for any information leading to the capture and arrest of
this person. But this is deeply disturbing, coupled with the
fact that police say no one should be concerned, but
we have no idea where he is, and clearly he
(11:13):
should be considered armed in dangerous.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
And this is a mess because now this is the
second person. They had someone else in the early hours,
but they have now detained and released two people. Look,
this is part of the investigative process, but that community
continues to be on.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Edge, all right.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Next up on the Run, Brian Walsh was found guilty
of first degree murdered yesterday and he now faces life
in prison without the possibility of parole.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
A lot of people will remember, of course, Walsh maintained
this Massachusett's man maintained that he had dismembered and disposed
of his wife's body, but maintained he did not kill her,
so that he found her upstairs New Year's night and
she had just died. This defense said it was sudden,
unexplained death. But the I guess the jurors didn't buy
that because so many of his Internet searches were just
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in so amountable. How do you get rid of a
body after a murder? He had nothing short of fifty
messages in trying to figure out how to dispose of
a body, so he couldn't overcome that with this.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yes, the searches were just too much. In fact, I
wonder because there was no body. They never found a body,
and they were never able to actually offer jurors cause
of death because of that, if he hadn't made those searches,
he likely he might have gotten away with it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But the jury it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Took less than six hours for them to come back
with that guilty of murder in the first degree. Sentencing
is scheduled for tomorrow, and the judge said that she
very much wants to schedule this around the ability to
get those victim impact statements which she wants to hear
before she makes her final determination. But really this is
more ceremonial and therapeutical for a lot of these folks,
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because he already is going to get a mandatory life
behind bars without the possibility of parole. Next up on
the run and update on the bachulism outbreak in baby
formula that is sick in dozens of babies. Well, the
FDA is now saying several major retailers continued to sell
that recalled formula four days and in some cases, weeks
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after the products were recalled.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
FDA sent letters warning letters to Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Albertson's,
laying out specific examples of the retailers keeping the formula
on shelves well after they were informed of the recall.
In particularly, they pointed out a Target store in Arkansas.
They didn't just sell the stuff, They had a promotion
says two dollars off by heart formula. Now, we don't
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know if they were trying to get rid of it
because of the outbreak or because they just overlooked something.
The companies now have fifteen days to respond, all right.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Next up on the run in execution that was scheduled
for tomorrow in Georgia appears to be on hold for now.
We're talking about Stacy Humphreyes. He was convicted of a
two thousand and three double murder. He was set to
die by lethal injection tomorrow night at seven pm, but
the State Board of Pardon and Paroles has issued an
order it happened yesterday that now suspense ends his execution.
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But without explanation, there's something about his clemency.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Hearing two of.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
The members on that Board of Pardons and Parole may
have a conflict of interest, so there's some confusion and
some I guess clerical work. They have to decide if
it's okay of three of the five determine his clemency
or not. But for now it's on hold, and the
death warrant expires Christmas Eve, so they're going to have
to make some decisions quickly.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
All right, Continue going on the run here now. The
Department of Justice says it's thloored in a major terror
attack that was planned for New Year's Eve in la
Four men have been arrested. They range in the age
of twenty four to forty. They were arrested, according to
the Department of Justice, while they were testing bombs out
in the desert. Now, the government maintains they are part
of a group. They say it's called Turtle Island Liberation Front.
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They call them a far left anti government group. They
are facing conspiracy among other charges.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
All right, next up on the run, President Trump has
followed through on his threat to sue the BBC, and it's.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
A ten billion with a b dollar lawsuit.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
He's accused them of deceptively editing his January sixth speech
in a way that made it sound like he was
calling for violence. The BBC has publicly acknowledged the error.
They have apologized. Two of their heads of the news
organization there over the BBC resigned over this, but they
have said there is no basis for this lawsuit. President
(15:27):
Trunk clearly disagrees, and he's had success atsuing media companies.
Just for a reminder of CBS, ABC, New York Times,
he has been successful at least in the million dollar range.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
All right, well, folks, stay with us here on this
Tuesday morning. Ron when we come back, one of the
funkiest songs ever made. You might not know the artist,
but you certainly know the song and a particular lyric
we have lost him will explain what I'm talking about there. Also,
she's leaving Congress, but she's about to walk down the
(16:00):
We'll explain Marjorie Trader Brown's new announcement. Also coming up,
one half of Luke and Laura has sadly passed away,
and we get yet another word of the year. We
continue on this Tuesday morning. Ron I think robes everybody.
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I would have struggled even to come up with his
name for a second. But she's built, she's stacked, got
all the curves a man like. She's a bad Mamma Jama.
What a song. Yes, Carlton has passed away at the
age of seventy three. Yes, he was the hit maker
behind that song. You didn't have the biggest or greatest
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career necessarily, but he was legendary in terms of how
that song was such a hit and had such staying
power even to this day. Also did a remake Everlasting
Love I played for you this morning. Oh yeah that
He was a hit for that one as well, But
no cause of death was announced. With seventy three, that
is a young age. He apparently young had had some
health issues over the past several years, but wanted to
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take a note love Love, love that song.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I love that song too, but with a name like
Carl Carlton. I can't believe we don't know it because
that has such a nice ring to it.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
But so sad he's gone. We will continue to listen
to his music.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Hudgeons I think was his real lest Oh okay, Carl
Hudgens was his last time?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
That makes sense, all right?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Next up on the run, A big congratulations to Marjorie
Taylor Green. She is engaged. She confirmed it yesterday on
social media. And who's the lucky guy. While his name
is Brian Glenn, he is chief White House correspondent for
Real America's Voice. They've been dating since twenty twenty three.
They were I believe they said that they were ending
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their first marriages, met started dating, and now they're about
to walk down the aisle together. And you know what,
It's interesting what love can do. Maybe it just it
put down. She put down her sword. She's like, I'm
not gonna keep doing this and fighting President Trump, and
maybe love was her way out.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Who knows. I would love to think that was a
beautiful story, and I would I don't know this lady
at all, but look, I'll take out a word and
believe that people can change in politics, messes with folks
and they can come around.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And love can change people.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Man, if this had a part of it, this is
a beautiful freaking story that I will I would absolutely
lift up and celebrate. We should have them on our.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Love would be one.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
We should have them on our love story series. Come February,
we'll put out the ask and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
All right, continue on the run here now with the story.
So many saw the name out there, Anthony Gary dead
at seventy eight. What's the right way to call him?
He was a General hospital star, legend, mainstay, icon. They
might all apply, but I was struggling to figure out
which one actually was the right one.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I think they all work, and I would say he
is probably one of the most, if not the most
famous male soap opera star of his time. I mean,
it's just in terms of like you said, Luke and Laura,
you never even watch General Hospital, but you knew about
their wedding. And I actually when you said nineteen eighty one,
I just thought, Wow, I was eight years old and
I still remember that wedding and being so excited about
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watching it and seeing Laura's dress, and I was so
It's interesting how something like that can stay with you.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
I just it had that kind of an impact on
pop culture. He's passed away against seventy eight years old.
Didn't realize he had been living in Amsterdam. But he
died of complications from recent surgery. It was a matter
of days ago with complications after that. I didn't eight
time Daytime Emmy winner for his role.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
That's amazing.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Eight times for that role.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That is a really the anti Susan Lucci.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh yeah, those only two people in the same No,
all my children.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
All my children.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
It was same network ABC. They had one life to live.
It was oh my gosh. The whole rundown was just
the best.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Who had the house with There was a staircase in
his grand room. I think that might have been Sue
and Lukes. I can see it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Yes, so that was all my children. Yes, life to
live in the general hospital.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That was the lineup. Ryon's hope was before all my children.
I mean I knew that lineup.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
This is all. This is all I know. But to
your point, nineteen eighty one, thirty million people, Wow. Wedding.
He died in Amsterdam, where he was living with his husband.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I had no idea he was gay.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
They had no idea together for thirty years, you know,
no idea.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It's one of those things where it's beautiful to learn
more about somebody who you watched it and admired of
a song. But it's also sad to know that it
wasn't something he could be public with at the time.
Of course, which makes sense given those times and his
role as a heart throb or this, you know, big
soap opera star. That he couldn't come out as who
he was at the time, that makes sense. Things are
different now, babe, whatever choice, and who knows why.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
But I'm to think I've gone all this time and
I know him from a relationship with a woman. Yes,
that is all I know.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That's true. He is the other half of Luke and Laura.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Correct, all right, last leg of our run here. I
didn't know we got a We need one word.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
It's out of control.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Dictionaries need to get together and just come up with one.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Wouldn't that be nice?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Because yeah, we have another word of the year Miriam
Webster twenty twenty five Word of the Year slop. And
as I said earlier, I always thought that was just
what pigs ate, but apparently the definition in twenty twenty
five is digital content of low quality that is produced
usually in quantity, by means of artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Just a bunch of mess, just junk. It's slop, So
it kind of means the same thing as the original definition,
just slop.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Just throw it all together and see what sticks.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
The runners up, according to Miriam Webster, were Gerrymander, Performative,
Tariff six seve, and Conclave Touch grass.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
I don't even know what touch grap No.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I didn't even stop to look it up. I just
didn't have the energy.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, it does feel as though all of these dictionaries
are desperate to be relevant, and they're all choosing words
that have to do with the thing that probably took
them out of business, or not out of business, but
certainly out of popularity, the Internet.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
So they're trying.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
To be cool, like, guess see, we're hip, We're with y'all,
we understand trends and all this stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
There's your word slop for the year, folks, continue on
the run. Last couple of notes here on this Tuesday
morning run Cooper Flag want to tell you this happened
Rookie for the down in Dallas, Dallas Mavericks youngestavererd to
score forty four points. He's eighteen years old. Scored forty
two points last night, lost though to Utah in overtime.
But this is a big deal kids eighteen years old.
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He turns nineteen on Sunday, but still scored forty two
points at the age of eighteen, something that has never
been done the NBA always worth noting.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Congratulations to him and for the final leg of our run. Yes,
we keep saying it. We were on we are on repeat.
But go out and get your power Ball tickets because
nobody won last night and the right now the jackpot
stands at one point two five billion dollars. The cash option,
if you are to take it, which you should take it,
everyone takes it, is five hundred and seventy two point
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one million. Hey, we're almost at a six with that.
If we keep seeing this grow, that's even a bigger
incentive as if we needed one.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, we're gonna go out for real ticket because.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
We didn't yesterday it was too cold.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It's never too cold for a billion dollars. And folks,
before we let you go, something we want you to
consider it is our quote of the day. Robes I
was always debate like you have me hesitating, like it
was robot gonna like this. It's not even about the
listener the moment anymore, like oh, it's robot gonna get
on to me about this one or not. So I'll
give you one that you know that you see daily
(23:37):
and I know you like it. Quote. Every saint has
a past, Every ciner has a future. You stop and
think about that. Every saint out there has a past
in which they weren't this perfect person of this package
in front of you, and every center in front of
you that you are scolding has a future. They're not
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that thing. I love this quot oh so much. I
can't remember where I got it, but it is tattooed
on my freaking arm. Saints Center, we have it in
all of us.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
There's no such thing as good and bad, you know,
perfect and evil. We all want to put people in
their lanes that we feel safe about how we look
at people and how we view the world. But the
truth is we all have some of it in each
of us, some more than others, different different versions. But
I think it's something to remember that. Yeah, don't paint
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everybody in one shade or put everyone in one lane.
We've all got good and bad in us.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And just a heads up to the Saints out there.
Stop having such bad or short memories. Saints seem to
forget their own past as they're judging everybody else in
front of them. I encourage Saints, just have a little
better memory as you sit there judging everybody because your
world seems to be perfect and they don't know about
your Ish folks. Take that with you today. Every Saint
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has a past, every center has a future, and with
that we always appreciate you running with us. I'm t J.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Holks and I'm Amy Roeboch. We will run with you soon.