It's Thursday, October 23rd. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Wedaday, the show that does not want to be made into an AI clone of itself in case it dies.

That's reportedly what Alan Hamill, the widower of actress Suzanne Summers, did after her passing in 2023.

Hamill told People magazine that the Suzanne Summers AI clone was trained on

her books and interviews and added, quote, when you look at the finished one next to the real

Suzanne, you can't tell the difference. No, see, I think that one could tell the difference because

one is a person who has died and the other is an AI clone.

Music One is a person who has died, and the other is an AI clone. On today's show, the Pentagon introduces us to the, quote,

Next Generation of Pentagon Press Corps, after legacy media companies reject their new press policy.

And President Donald Trump plans to slap sanctions on, am I getting this right? Press Corps, after legacy media companies reject their new press policy.

And President Donald Trump plans to slap sanctions on... Am I getting this right?

Russia?

But let's start with Congress and Jeffrey Epstein.

The government shutdown is now in its third week.

The House of Representatives is out, and votes aren't getting scheduled.

Particularly the vote to force the Department of Justice to release files centered on financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Let me introduce you to someone who could change that.

Back in September, Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva won a special election to the House, but she hasn't been seated because House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in.

Now Johnson says his hands were tied by the government shutdown, but that's not true.

As a New York Times detailed earlier this month, representatives can be sworn into office

even if the House is out of session, and Johnson did so for two Florida Republican House members

earlier this year. But Democrats think the real motivation for Johnson's stonewalling is the Epstein discharge

petition.

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