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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey there everyone, good morning. It is Tuesday, March third.
I'm Amy Robot.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
She is a well rested a hair, every hair in place,
bladder empty, Amy Robot. You all have got it. We'll
post it later. I'll show you all what happened right
before we Oh, no.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
You were recording the whole time.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Well, no, I was recording because I thought we were
starting work and then you took two detours and just
came back.

Speaker 4 (00:32):
But it's okay, baby, we have.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
We have new lighting in the podcast room. And I
was afraid that I had flyaways. Look I wake up
like this. I come, I've got no makeup on.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
My hair's pulled back, and I thought, you know what,
I might have some messy hair. And now this new
lighting might throw some emphasis on it. I need to
make sure at least it's not distracting.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Well, folks, I am a very distracted TJ Holmes right now.
But it's all right. We're going to get through this
Morning Run. It's okay to start with a little check,
little authenticity there, and a little levity.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Right we need that, Oh, Mike, bitter goodness, we do, yes.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yes, we got so many updates to give you this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
With the run it's going to take us gonna make
stops in Chappaquad, New York. We're going to make a
stop in Austin, Texas. We're going to make a stop
down in Florida, back up here to New York City,
and we'll also make a stop in two somber Robes.
Of course, we have to start with what's happening overseas.
The war with Iran now entering its fourth day. The
Pentagon confirmed yesterday we knew there were four American service

(01:31):
member deaths, but it went up to six yesterday. So
now six US service members confirmed killed in the fighting
and another eighteen have been seriously injured.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yes and according to the Red Crescent, this is Iran's
version of the Red Cross, but they are saying nearly
eight hundred people have died in Iran so far. President
Trump has made his first live remarks about the conflict.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
It happened at the White House yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
He said they anticipated the offensive would last up to
five weeks, but he did add the US has the
capability to go far longer than that, and the President
did not rule out putting boots on.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
The ground that Meanwhile, the conflict is expanding Inrai Old
and has now hit Hesibal of targets in Beirut, in
Lebanon now also keeping up an offensive in Tehran, the capital.
Today the US embassy meanwhile in Rihai came under attack.
There are reports of limited damage there, but no reports
of injuries. Also, the administration is saying, you ain't seen

(02:28):
nothing yet.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
They claim what's the word that they put it?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Big wave, it's coming, And Marco Rubio said, the hardest
hits is that the way yeah are yet to come.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
So stand by, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
And a lot of questions, as you might imagine, are
now being raised about just how long this war would last.
We mentioned the President and the Secretary of Defense both
said in public comments yesterday four to five weeks. But
then the President uttered the word forever in a social
media post that is making headlines.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
So what do you think of this, folks?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
The President posted, quote, the United States munitions stockpiles have
at the medium and upper medium grade never been higher
or better. As was stated to me today, we have
a virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be
fought forever and very successfully using the supplies now. For

(03:20):
whatever reason he put forever in quotes. Maybe he got
it from someone not exactly sure what he was trying
to convey, and the context might have been lost a
little bit and how he was saying it. But robes
who hear the President said, yeah, we can keep it.
We have enough weapons to keep this up forever. That
braves the my brows.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I can see how it does.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Hopefully he just was meaning that for Iranians or Iranian
leadership to hear, yeah, we can do this all day.
That's something you'd like to say to me, I could
do this all day. It kind of is a shot
across the bout saying you probably should stop now.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
But you got a whole country of Americans who don't
want to hear that we can do this all day
because they didn't want to do it in the first place.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
That's very true.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
And the State Department put out an updated, an urgent
message to Americans who are in the Middle East region
get out now late yesterday. The administration did not mince
words in its alert, saying if you're in the Middle East,
you need to get out of there.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
You need to leave.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
The exact quote was depart now via commercial means due
to serious safety risks.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I continue on the run here. Now, you remember the
story that was the big story before the war. Remember
Thursday and Friday last week the Clinton sat for depositions.
That's all everybody was talking about and waiting for the
videos to be released. While they have been released, those depositions,
they are out publicly, and it's a nine hour nothing sandwich.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
What it is.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
That's the one way to put it.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Now.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
The one moment that you will probably see at nauseum
today is Hillary Clinton pounding the table. And this came
after she learned Congresswoman Lauren Bobert of Colorado took secretly
and posted a picture of Hillary online. These former Secretary
State became frustrated also that she was being asked the
same questions over and over. She said, I have never

(05:05):
been on his island, period. I have never been in
his homes, his offices, his anything. I don't know how
many times you have to say the same thing.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Over and over and over again.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
Okay, so Bill Clinton had different answers.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
He couldn't exactly say that thing, but he did explain
the hot tub photo. I don't know why my MoMA
immediately goes to Eddie Murphy getting in the hot tub.
But this wasn't a hot tub, is the way, Bill
Clinton explained. And you all know the photo we're talking about.
When I say the hot tub photo, everybody knows what
I'm doing.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
You can tell it's been cropped a little.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yes, so he explained, Yes, that photo that everybody seems
appears to show him in a hot tub with a
woman whose face was yes, Riddict blacked out. He says
he doesn't know that woman, said she absolutely was over eighteen,
and also that the photo was cropped in such a
way that it was a larger pool with a bunch
of people in it, and just that particular photo happened

(05:58):
to be cropped in such a way that it made
it look like something else was going on. He also
explained how he met Jeffrey Epstein said he met him
through his former Treasury secretary Larry Summers, and that he
never saw or heard anything untoward or creepy from Epstein
did find him a bit odd, but he said even
with hindsight, he said, I still don't look back and
think of something that was out.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Of place, and that's very interesting.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
He also, of note, said that he never saw Trump
doing anything wrong, And he wouldn't even say whether he
thought the committee should subpoena Trump to testify, saying that's
for you to decide.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
I continue on the run here. Now let's head out
to Tucson, Arizona and ropes. I think a lot of
people are saying this was the first, I really do rogues.
Was this not the first time that the Guthrie family
has come out and made a public appearance.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I believe there's been no video.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
There's been no footage of them seen other than the
videos they posted from inside their home.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
So, folks, this was a major Yesterday. We're seeing for
the first time a public appearance by the Guthrie family.
They visit a memorial that's been set up at Nowancy
Guthrie's home. Did they show hosts Savannah Guthrie, her sister
and brother in law late flowers at that site. I
believe they interacted with some people and said thank you mini.
Well wishers have been leaving flowers and notes since Guthrie

(07:11):
disappeared just over a month ago.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
And Savannah then posted this to Instagram after they made
that public outing, saying, we feel the love and prayers
from our neighbors, from the Tucson community and from around
the country. Please don't stop praying and hoping with us
bring her home. This probably has to be the toughest
time when the attention dies away, when you're not any
close for definding your mom, and now you're just left

(07:37):
with what That has got to be hard.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
And then I hadn't thought about it.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
They've been inside, away from the public, sequestered for a
month now.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
That has to also be weighing on them as well,
just to be enclosed and afraid and waiting. I can't
even imagine what they've.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Been through, folks.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's the update we have on that story, because there
is not an official update on the investigation, as necessarily
from authorities.

Speaker 4 (08:01):
Continue on the run here.

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Now, let's head down to Florida schedule to carry out
its third execution of the year tonight in Rhodes. I
was saying, oh, of the year since January. Maybe that's
not such a bad pace for Florida, but it's actually
their third and three weeks. Wow, So here they go. So,
barring the Supreme Court stepping in, Billy Leon curse will
die by lethal injection tonight, Ropes. I guess something else

(08:25):
could happen, but he's not exactly holding his breath for
the governor to step in.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yes, when you read about the crime that he was
convicted of, it seems highly unlikely because he has been
on death row for the nineteen ninety one murder of
a Florida Police office student.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
These details are pretty awful.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
During a police stop ends up shooting, firing this gun
a dozen plus times at this officer in close range.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
This, Yes, this young officer who was married, trying to
have a baby with his wife. His wife is planning
to be there. She has wanted to see this day
for many, many years. So this is almost assuredly happening
tonight in Florida.

Speaker 4 (09:01):
I count those years for me, twenty one.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
It's thirty five years, prety five freaking years here I
graduated from high school.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Yeah, thirty five years.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
That's way too long for us to actually follow through
on what our laws, or at least what he was
convicted of. All right, we'll follow that story for you.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
But next up on the run.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
A third victim, this is just awful, has died from
this weekend's mass shooting in Austin. The thirty year old
man had been in critical condition at the hospital since
the early Sunday shooting in Austin's bustling downtown party scene.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
They had two others who died were confirmed to be
college students. Obviously, this is an area very popular with
college students. I think they were from two different universities.
I want to be careful here, but the University u T.
Austin is. You could almost walk it from where downtown
he is here. But another thirteen people were injured when
this man opened fire from his vehicle on people who

(09:56):
were at that bar on the patio outside in Join
the night.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
You know, seeing the pictures of the young college students,
it brings it home.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's one of those things where we hear, we get
desensitized by the numbers and the facts. Just see this
young kid's face, and he looked like Annalisa's friends.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
I run nineteen years he's forty even twenty, Yes.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Nineteen years old.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
It just it brings my heart because I immediately think
of my nineteen year old and her friends and being
out and having fun and not thinking for one second
that they would be the victims of a potential terrorist attack.
Because the suspect is a fifty three year old naturalized citizen.
He's originally from Senegal. He was shot and killed by police.
But the FBI is investigating this shooting as an act

(10:36):
of terrorism given what that man was wearing. He was
wearing Property of Allah T shirt with an Iranian flag.

Speaker 1 (10:42):
I continue on the run here now it's head back
up to New York where we have another miracle on
the Hudson.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
This is kind of cool, amazing.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
A small Cessana plane this time this was not a
major commercial airliner, but still small Cessna plane has had
two occupants had to perform an emergency landing on the
icy Hudson last night.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Woo both survived. This is incredible.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
They were able to get themselves out and swim to
shore in the Yes, icy Hudson River up north. It's
incredibly icy. They were taken to the hospital. The FAA
is investigating. This happened north of New York City in
Orange County. Babe, this is close to where we were
staying at a house nearby on the Hudson. There was
so much ice you could almost walk on the Hudson,

(11:24):
but that's how cold it was. It is remarkable to
me that anyone survived.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
That can't wait to hear that the crash is one thing.
The water, Yes, that was the part. I hope they're okay,
but we're told they're expected to be okay. We'll turn
to another plane emergency, this one on another coasts. And yes,
this had to do with a commercial airliner. But this
plane emergency had passengers quite littlely running from their plane

(11:48):
on the tarmac at Lax. This was a United Airlines flight.
It had taken off yesterday heading to Newark, but soon
reported engine trouble. That trouble turned out to be a
fire in that.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Enginey, yeah, thank goodness. They decided to return and have
that emergency landing. You asked me, have you seen the video?
And I said no, I just read about it.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
He's like, you should watch it. I did. This is
pretty remarkable.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
So the plane returns to the airport and you see
the emergency slides come down and by the way, you
see the engine smoking.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
I mean that was scary stuff.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
But then the video shows all the passengers literally running
for their lives.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
From the plane.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yes, they weren't just like, oh, this is just a
drill or oh this is a procedure. They were running
for their lives as emergency crews worked on putting out
the engine fire. No injuries were reported, which is pretty remarkable.
I also noticed, because you always ask yourself, what I
bring my purse? Would I try to bring my carry on?
I will say this, I did not see one person
with the bag in their hands.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
And that actually showed.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Me just how scared they must have been, because I
know that I would be like, yeah, I'm gonna need
my passport.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
That plane could blow up. I don't want to deal
with now.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
I would have tried togress. I did not see one
person with their best would.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
I swear we had one. Recently there was a situation
and people were grabbing their back. Was it the one
with the plane was upside down? And yeah, they were.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Grabbed they had I was like, that kind of was me,
but I there may have been, but from the video
I saw that stood out to me.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
They were high tailing it like people who got the
message and who were genuinely afraid. To be honest, I
didn't necessarily they didn't know. But you have an engine smoking,
you're already landing landed, so you're no threat of christ.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think it could catch fire.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
Though those folks were booking it so good for them,
but yes, no injuries reported in that one. I do
believe what's stay with us here on this Tuesday morning.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
It's Tuesday. It actually sounded like you were about to
say Saturday.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I wasn't gonna say that. But stay with us here
on this Tuesday morning run. When we come back, you
tell me you put it in context, Rode, How big
a news is this on cancer survival race breast cancer Serbberry.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
It's remarkably positive news for many people, but it is
devastating for a segment of this world.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
All right, we'll give you that update and also next story,
guess who's coming to dinner?

Speaker 4 (14:03):
And DC. Stay here.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
We continue on this Tuesday morning run and next up
here are huge disparity in cancer survival rates. New study
on breast cancer shows death rates fail by more than
forty percent over the past thirty years in this country.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
That's good, that is it actually gave me chills. It
is remarkable to see what's happened. And even in the
twelve years since I was diagnosed, they had told me,
if you've been diagnosed five years before, you would have
had a completely different, fairly devastating treatment.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
Okay, So that's one nugget here, more than forty percent
drop over the past thirty years. The rate of diagnoses
dropped nearly thirty percent. Now context, there not as many
people are women are being diagnosed, correct, So that means
that not as many women are getting cancer. Something is working,
yes in the message.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yes, because there are so many Look, doctors are begging women.
If you take care of yourself, you can prevent cancer.
A lot of it is weight, a lot of it
is diet, exercise. All of those things contribute to developing cancer.
So as we as Americans and in more highly developed countries,
if we get that word, we can change our behaviors.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
We can change the diagnosis rate.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
How that's the positive.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Correct now during that exact same time period. This also
gives me chills for all the wrong reasons. Death rates
have increased in lower income areas of the world like
Sub Saharan Africa, where they see death rates of more
than eighty percent.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
That is devastating eighty percent.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
If you could diagnose with with a breast cancer, you
have an eighty percent death rate. I mean that is
unheard of in recent modern times. Breast cancer is the
most common cancer in women nearly one in four women
diagnosed with cancer end up getting diagnosed with breast cancer.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
But this is I think we kind of.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Pointed out it out, but health advocate say, yes, we're
talking about unequal access to screening and treatment that leads
to later stage cancer diagnoses, which makes them harder to
treat and more likely to be terminal.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
It's that simple access. Money.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
Access is not complicated stuff. We can get every study. Yes,
go to any place that has less money flowing, fewer hospitals,
fewer doctors, and you are going to see this. It's
a shame that we can sit here and celebrate something
and another part of the world is suffering.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Okay, we say.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
Another part of the world, but there are plenty of
communities in this country as well that are not seeing
rates go down the way these rates are.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Overall, absolutely, this is about this is about privilege and access,
absolutely all.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Right, last leg of our run here. Privilege and access. Huh,
this annual exercise, you just kind of you have to
go with it. But yes, there will be Now we
talking about the White House Correspondence Dinner. There is going
to be a very special guest at this year's White
House Correspondents dinner the President of the United States of America.

(17:04):
President Trump has conspicuously been absent from the DC prom
every year of his presidency. Didn't go with all his
first term, didn't go last year, although robes he has
gone as a guest in years past and has been
absolutely the butt of a lot of jokes. But he
did announce yesterday social media that he is ending his

(17:25):
boycott of this event.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yes, this is what he had to say.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
The White House Correspondence Association has asked me, very nicely, love, that.

Speaker 4 (17:34):
This is how we start. He's essentience, saying they begged yes.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
To be the honoree at this year's dinner, a long
and storied tradition since it began in nineteen twenty four
under then President Calvin Coolidge in honor of our nation's
two hundred and fiftieth birthday. And the fact that these correspondents,
which he put in quotes, now admit that I am
truly one of the greatest presidents in the history of

(17:58):
our country, the goat according to many. It will be
my honor to accept their invitation and work to make
it the greatest, hottest, and most spectacular dinner of any
kind ever Because the press was extraordinarily bad to me, fake.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
News all right.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
From the beginning of my first term, I boycotted the
event and never went as honoree. However, I look forward
to being with everyone this year. Hopefully it will be
something very special. Look, I know you have been to them.
I have been to them over the years. The highlight
is to see the president and it's lighthearted, it's fun,
it's in good spirits. There's a lot of self deprecating humor,

(18:42):
usually from the president at their own expense, and it
just creates this wonderful feeling when it is adversarial for
a lot of the year, or between the press and
the president. But then we all come together and get
why we're all here and what we're all here for.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
But they can be jokingly adversarial room.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
They start throwing shots at each other in a joking,
mild married way.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
That it's you know what.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
It reassures you that, okay, they actually don't all hate
each other. They can come together in the room and
they'll go back tomorrow and do their thing. Look, this
is I do not I'm not a fan necessarily. It
is what it is.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
It can be. You should go once get it out
of the way.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
But Robes, I'm watching it this year, I would ye
oh Trump, it's a hot ticket.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Now, how do we get to go?

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Oh my goodness, what we can Oh? Isn't it crazy?
All the years folks begged us to go, like, oh.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
No, busy that weekend. Oh how many times have we
turned it down? No?

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Thanks?

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Look, it could be fun.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
It's you know, it's a good family reunion in a
lot of ways, folks you hadn't seen in a long time.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
So yes, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (19:47):
The first time I went, I was just starstruck and
like pinch myself moments. It's it's a fun event. This
year will be extra special to president's right.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
And the first time I went was the first time
I met Donald Trump and Milania Trump. I was working
in the red car but he was not the president
and had not announced he was going to run. And
the question I asked him, you think you'll see yourself
up there on that stage like we're going to see Obama?
I asked him. That was at twenty four. Yeah, asked
him that question, and he danced around. I think Milania

(20:19):
jumped in and answered for him. In that moment, It's like, Wow,
these two are pretty charming people. But she jumped in
and kind of saved him from it. But she ended
up talking more than I expected. Wow in that moment,
for whatever reason, Yeah, that is right to go look
that up somewhere.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah, I walked away going.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
Wow, sweet people, I have more questions.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
I'll answer them.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Okay, all right, And on this Tuesday, we will leave
you with our quote of the day. The amount of
good things in your life depends on your ability to
notice them.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Man, what I was just saying this the other day. Man,
if you're looking for the worst in people, you'll find it.
If you're looking for the best, you'll find it. And Yeah,
if you go through your day waiting for something to.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Go wrong, I do that a lot and usually does
go wrong, but it almost always does because I'm looking
for it. I have an anticipation of something going wrong.
What has going right for me this morning? A lot,
absolutely a lot, if I pay attention to it, including
the fact that I got up this morning, I got
out of bed, you were laying next to me.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
My foot doesn't hurt as bad as it was.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
So.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Bean is having a great time at school because she
has a cool project. All this stuff Arkansas is going
to be in the NCAA.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Turn on me.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
All this.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
We have to remind ourselves that's positive.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
That's a damn shame we have to remind ourselves. But yes,
that's a good one.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
And it's a good thing to do when you're getting
frustrated and annoyed. It's something that maybe might bring you
out of that downward spiral we all find ourselves in
at least once a day. So yes, once again for
all of you on this Tuesday. The amount of good
things in your life depends on your ability to notice them.
So we hope you can take.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Man, that's the stop of that. This is one of
your this is one of your best you plucked out
in a while.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
The big O. It is simple and it's just it's big.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
It's so simple, but it's so big and powerful and
meaning and life changing and it can change your day
this moment.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
That's a great one.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
Thanks babe, I'm grateful for you right now and without everyone,
thank you for listening to our morning run.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
I'm Amy Robot and i am TJ.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
Holmes. Go find something positive right now. Talk to you also,
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The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe

The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe

When a group of women from all over the country realise they all dated the same prolific romance scammer they vow to bring him to justice. In this brand new season of global number 1 hit podcast, The Girlfriends, Anna Sinfield meets a group of funny, feisty, determined women who all had the misfortune of dating a mysterious man named Derek Alldred. Trust Me Babe is a story about the protective forces of gossip, gut instinct, and trusting your besties and the group of women who took matters into their own hands to take down a fraudster when no one else would listen. If you’re affected by any of the themes in this show, our charity partners NO MORE have available resources at https://www.nomore.org. To learn more about romance scams, and to access specialised support, visit https://fightcybercrime.org/ The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe is produced by Novel for iHeartPodcasts. For more from Novel, visit https://novel.audio/. You can listen to new episodes of The Girlfriends: Trust Me Babe completely ad-free and 1 week early with an iHeart True Crime+ subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. Open your Apple Podcasts app, search for “iHeart True Crime+, and subscribe today!

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