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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Good Morning everybody on this Monday, and welcome to Morning Run.

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Speaker 2: On this November twenty fifth, I'm t J.

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Speaker 1: Halk and I'm Amy Roebach and on the Run this morning,

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Speaker 1: Matt Gates has a job waiting for him, but says

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Speaker 1: he doesn't want it.

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Speaker 2: Also on this Monday, President elect Trump went on a

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Speaker 2: hiring spree in recent days and has now filled out

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Speaker 2: most of his cabinet.

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Speaker 1: Plus legendary game show host Chuck Woolery has died at

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Speaker 1: the age of eighty three.

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Speaker 2: Also on this Monday, another critical day in court for

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Speaker 2: the Menindez brothers, and some people are entering a lottery

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Speaker 2: just for a chance to be inside the courtroom.

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Speaker 1: And this will be the busiest Thanksgiving travel season ever.

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Speaker 1: Seems like we hear that just about every year, but

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Speaker 1: for real, this time, It's going to be the busiest

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving travel season ever.

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Speaker 2: And the Wicked Witch Adam Seeing Green from OZ to

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Speaker 2: the Coliseum This weekend, the box office gets a boost

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Speaker 2: from two highly anticipated blockbusters AKA glickt clicktt.

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Speaker 1: Is right, Seeing Green? Was that your clever writing?

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Speaker 2: You didn't write it? Only two of us writing this morning.

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Speaker 2: You know you didn't do No, it's glicked clicked.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it Gladiator two and wicked combined.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I keep want to say glicked when I see it,

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Speaker 2: but it's glick it click it. We'll get into that, folks.

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Speaker 2: On this Monday, we're going to begin the run in Washington,

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Speaker 2: d C. Where Matt Gates has his old job waiting

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Speaker 2: for him in Congress. But he says, you'll pass.

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Speaker 1: The former congressman slash former Trump Attorney General nominee one

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Speaker 1: re election to his Florida district earlier this month, but

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Speaker 1: then abruptly resigned from Congress after Trump tapped him for

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Speaker 1: ag and.

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Speaker 2: Then after withdrawing his name from consideration. He had the

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Speaker 2: option to return to Congress and be sworn in again

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Speaker 2: in January, but over the weekend, Gates said he will

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Speaker 2: not be returning to the House of Representatives.

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Speaker 1: Let's quote him here as he put it. He said,

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Speaker 1: I do not intend to join the one hundred nineteenth Congress.

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Speaker 1: And he went on to say, I'm going to be

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Speaker 1: fighting for President Trump. I'm going to be doing whatever

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Speaker 1: he asks of me as I always have.

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Speaker 2: Did you pick up on the intend I do not

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Speaker 2: intend is what he says to join the one hundred

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Speaker 2: nineteenth Congress. I guess he leaves open the option that

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Speaker 2: he could change his mind. He can throw in our

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Speaker 2: faces letter later.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I only said I intended no intentions change.

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Speaker 2: They do change. But there has been a lot of

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Speaker 2: speculation about Gates' political future since he dropped out of

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Speaker 2: the ag consideration, of course, amid sexual misconduct allegations and

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Speaker 2: the possible release of that House Ethics Committee report into

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Speaker 2: his alleged behavior, which you pointed out, if he goes

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Speaker 2: back to Congress, they have jurisdiction over him again, and

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Speaker 2: does that make an easier path for releasing that.

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Speaker 1: Report That might incentivize him again to not re enter

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Speaker 1: the halls of Congress. But if you're missing Matt Gates

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Speaker 1: on this holiday week and you'd like a Thanksgiving message

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Speaker 1: for friends and family, it is interesting to note he

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Speaker 1: has joined the website Cameo. He did it on Friday,

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Speaker 1: actually right after saying that he did not or he

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Speaker 1: was not going to seek the nomination for Attorney General.

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Speaker 1: So yes, he is now offering holiday messages, marriage, congratulations, career,

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Speaker 1: PEP talks. I believe it's five hundred and fifty dollars

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Speaker 1: per video if you'd like Matt Gates to send some

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Speaker 1: sort of personalized message to anyone who you love on

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Speaker 1: this Thanksgiving week.

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Speaker 2: That's the going rate is yet five point fifty. I

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Speaker 2: might get that for a couple of my friends. Then

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Speaker 2: we get a kick at it.

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Speaker 1: That's money will spent that all right? Next up on

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Speaker 1: our run. President Trump's been busy. He went on a

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Speaker 1: hiring spree on Friday, announcing a string of appointments to

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Speaker 1: his new administration, and pretty much at this point has

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Speaker 1: his entire cabinet filled out.

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Speaker 2: So some of the key spots he filled on Friday

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Speaker 2: CDC Director, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Director of

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Speaker 2: Treasury Secretary.

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Speaker 1: That's right. He nominated Scott Besson to that position, one

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Speaker 1: of the more prestigious, critical, and influential cabinet jobs. Bessent

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Speaker 1: stock market by the way, has responded fairly significantly to

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Speaker 1: the announcement. The future is pointing higher to even more games.

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Speaker 1: Today when the market opens, they were cheering his selection.

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Speaker 1: And this is after a record close on Friday. So

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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens today with the stock market. But

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Speaker 1: it looks like they are very happy with the Treasury

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Speaker 1: Secretary's appointment.

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Speaker 2: All right, we will continue our run now and well

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Speaker 2: head now to this story about the passing of a

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Speaker 2: game show legend, embodiment of the perfect game show hosts.

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Speaker 2: He was one of the greats at the height of

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Speaker 2: the game show era of television in the eighties and nineties.

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Speaker 2: We're talking about Chuck Woolery now with the age of

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Speaker 2: eighty three.

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Speaker 1: It was his podcast co host and friend who announced

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Speaker 1: that Woolry had died at his home in Texas, with

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Speaker 1: his wife Kristen by his side. He was inducted into

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Speaker 1: the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame back in

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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. And although Wheel of Fortune we

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Speaker 1: all think of Pat Sajack, right, but it was actually

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Speaker 1: Chuck Woolery who began as the show's first.

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Speaker 2: Hosts nineteen seventy five when Will of Fortune debuted. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it was Woolery that the audience saw there at the Helm.

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Speaker 2: He was just thirty three years old at the time,

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Speaker 2: and that time he was actually, he's not trying to

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Speaker 2: be some great game show host. He wanted to be

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Speaker 2: a singer. He wanted to be a singer in Nashville.

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Speaker 2: Even had a couple of hits during his day, and

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Speaker 2: also wrote songs for a number of country artists, including

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Speaker 2: Pat Boone and Tammy.

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Speaker 1: Why not, I had no idea, and I was a

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Speaker 1: huge Chuck Woolery fan, because yes, those game shows were

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Speaker 1: didn't know that he could sing too. But of course

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Speaker 1: what he's most known for this was the show I

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Speaker 1: loved and watched, hosting the game show Love Connection. Woolery

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Speaker 1: an eleven year run with it. Let's see how many

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Speaker 1: of you remember his coined catchphrase.

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Speaker 2: This was the first thing that came to mind about him.

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Speaker 2: He would say, we'll be back in two minutes and

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Speaker 2: two I can see. That's the first thing that came

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Speaker 1: I know, I always think of that. I think I've

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Speaker 1: probably used it. That I'll be back in two and

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Speaker 1: two just became one of those things. Did you ever

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Speaker 2: I never said I'd be back in two and two,

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Speaker 1: But I like to give myself a little like some flexibility,

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Speaker 1: So those extra two seconds, I just liked it all right.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty four, I didn't know this as well.

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Speaker 1: He also began hosting Scrabble, simultaneously hosting two game shows

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Speaker 1: on television until nineteen ninety. He also hosted the show's

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Speaker 1: when he started that show, Greed. When I worked for

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Speaker 2: His television career, he went on into podcasting, teaming up

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Speaker 2: with Mark Young for the podcast Blunt Force Truth. Describing

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Speaker 2: himself as a conservative, libertarian and constitutionalist. Now he has

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Speaker 2: survived now by his wife we mentioned earlier, and also

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Speaker 2: three children, but he is he's that Golden Age, right,

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Speaker 2: those guys are legendary, and his boy, he's as smooth.

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Speaker 2: He was as smooth as a guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah six two, Like he really did look like if

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Speaker 1: you were to cast a game show host in Hollywood,

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Speaker 1: it would be him, all right. The next leg of

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Speaker 1: our run takes us inside an LA courtroom, where the

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Speaker 1: Menendez brothers will take another step towards potential freedom.

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Speaker 2: Today, Lal and Eric Menendez are expected to appear virtually

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Speaker 2: at their status hearing, where all sides will discuss where

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Speaker 2: the case stands and what the next steps should be.

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Speaker 2: The brothers, who've been in prison thirty years now for

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Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty nine murders of their parents, have been

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Speaker 2: arguing that they should be resentenced based on new evidence

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Speaker 2: and new testimony about years of sexual abuse by their father.

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Speaker 1: They claim a jury today would never have sentenced the

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Speaker 1: boy so harshly had that evidence been presented back at trial,

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Speaker 1: And then with the hit Netflix show about the Menendez

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Speaker 1: the LA District attorney agreed to re examine it, and

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Speaker 1: then last month recommended that the brothers be re sentenced.

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Speaker 2: So this all looked like there was a momentum for

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Speaker 2: them now getting out of prison. But one complication. The

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Speaker 2: his office support resentencing, so we shall see. December eleventh

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Speaker 2: a couple of options here. He could throw out the case,

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Speaker 1: There is a lot of interest in what happens in

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Speaker 1: that courtroom today, so much so there and this is,

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Speaker 1: by the way, the first time if they said they're

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Speaker 1: expected to appear virtually, but they haven't been in court

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Speaker 1: A lot of folks want to see what's happening, but

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Speaker 1: no cameras are going to be allowed in the courtroom.

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Speaker 1: All the cell phones will be put in sealed bags.

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Speaker 1: There are only a limited amount of seats for even

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Speaker 1: the media, so this is going to be a big

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how many who would go, and

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen the scenes yet this morning, So it's

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Speaker 2: slated for ten to thirty West Coast time, correct, I believe.

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Speaker 2: But folks, I'm curious about how many folks will line

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Speaker 2: up to try to get these sixteen seats that the

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Speaker 2: judge has set aside for a lottery. Those are only

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Speaker 2: sixteen folks all the interest in this case, only sixteen

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Speaker 2: members of the public are going to be allowed to

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Speaker 2: sit in there and watch that. And they have to

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Speaker 2: show up for a lottery. You can't do it ahead

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Speaker 2: of time. It's only going to be done this morning

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Speaker 2: out there, So it might be a chaotic scene.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I am willing to bet there is going to

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Speaker 1: be a long line of folks trying to get in

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Speaker 1: with that lottery system in place, because yes, this is

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Speaker 1: a big deal, potentially thirty years in the making.

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, will stay with us here on our

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Speaker 2: Monday morning run when we come back. Seems like we

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Speaker 2: hear it every year, it's going to be the busiest

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Speaker 2: Thanksgiving travel season ever, but really they mean it this time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone next up on our run on this

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Speaker 1: Monday morning. New records may be set this time for real,

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Speaker 2: All right, Triple A says this year, as many as

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Speaker 1: That's why it's record breaking. TJ. Lower gas prices are

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Speaker 1: seven million. I'm always curious with these very specific expected numbers.

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Speaker 2: But they're experts.

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Speaker 1: They're experts, You're right. I'm just reporting what they expertly. No.

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Speaker 1: By the way, the TSA says it expects to screen

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Speaker 2: Into that, we say, ll why you say, oh, the

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Speaker 2: TSA let us know it's ready, and I'm quoting it's

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Speaker 2: that is very welcome news. We're very much air travelers.

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Speaker 1: Are they though? Because we were yeah, just traveling by

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Speaker 1: Sunday will be the busiest air travel day of the year.

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Speaker 2: Nice to hear, because for a long time that industry

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Speaker 1: And I'm just so happy after last week, I now

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Speaker 2: And we're sure it's not Glicked.

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Speaker 1: I'm positive it's clicks click.

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Speaker 2: Barbie and Oppenheimer had the same opening weekend and created

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Speaker 1: It did great. Wicked brought in one hundred and fourteen

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Speaker 2: So this was I remember what's his Tom Cruise? Tom

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Speaker 1: No. The fun thing is they call this counter programming

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Speaker 1: Come on, I think we all know the girls are

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Speaker 1: going to Wicked and the guys are going to gladiat Her.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you spend your whole life waiting for

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Speaker 2: In front of you. I am going to remember this

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Speaker 1: As we're preparing for our holiday feast and holiday festivities.

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Speaker 1: You might be worried about what's going to go wrong,

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Speaker 1: enjoy the sunshine. Thank you for running with us. Everyone.

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Speaker 2: I'm Aye Robots and I'm DJ Holmes. Enjoy your sunshine, folks.

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Speaker 2: We'll see your mark.