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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning, everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to Morning Run. It's Friday, February twenty eighth.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Roboch and.

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Speaker 2: MTJ Holmes And on this Friday Morning Run, President Trump

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Speaker 2: today will welcome a so called dictator.

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Speaker 3: To the White House.

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Speaker 2: Also on this morning's run, what happened at the Hackman House.

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Speaker 2: Strange even suspicious details emerging as investigators piece together how

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Speaker 2: the Oscar winning legend died.

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Speaker 1: Plus You're fired, but you shouldn't have been. A judge

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Speaker 1: put a stop to Trump's mass firing of federal workers.

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Speaker 1: And another positive Pope date from the Vatican as the

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Speaker 1: Pontiff starts his second week in the hospital.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, ladies, we know sometimes you need to

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Speaker 2: get away from us, but this has a bit much

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Speaker 2: A girl's trip to space is happening. You should hear

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Speaker 2: who the girls are. Also, you have your favorites, but

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Speaker 2: who's the betting favorite to win the Oscar on Sunday,

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Speaker 2: Big weekend. Of course we should expect just lost an

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Speaker 2: Oscar or winning the legend just in there go with

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Speaker 2: Gene Hackman. So you could probably expect to see something

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Speaker 2: pretty special from them.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure absolutely they will be paying their respects to him,

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Speaker 1: and in addition to paying respects to those who have

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Speaker 1: suffered so much with the LA wildfires.

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Speaker 2: So looking forward to that. We'll have a preview of

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Speaker 2: all that coming up in just the moment. But we

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Speaker 2: do have to begin our run in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 2: And boy, this ought to be good. President Trump president

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Speaker 2: Zelensky face to face this morning at the White House

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Speaker 2: for the first meeting between the two leaders since Trump's inauguration.

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Speaker 1: It's also their first meeting since Trump publicly called Zelensky

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Speaker 1: a dictator without elections, and since Trump and Russian President

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Speaker 1: Putin shut Ukraine out of their negotiations to end the

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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine.

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Speaker 4: So the stakes couldn't get much higher.

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Speaker 1: And this meeting is a critical one that could set

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Speaker 1: the tone for the relationship between our two countries for

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Speaker 1: years to come.

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Speaker 2: So President Zelensky is expected at the White House at

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Speaker 2: eleven this morning. He's expected to be greeted by President Trump.

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Speaker 2: After the greeting, they'll get to the meeting with a

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Speaker 2: bilateral Oval Office meeting scheduled, and then right after that

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Speaker 2: a working lunch between the two men, and then they'll

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Speaker 2: hold a joint press conference at one o'clock. This is

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Speaker 2: probably some must see TV because they haven't worked out

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Speaker 2: all this deal, this economic deal, so it's not a

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Speaker 2: sure thing just yet. So a lot is going to

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Speaker 2: come out of those meetings and we will know about

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Speaker 2: it all, including some tensions if there were any in

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Speaker 2: that press conference.

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Speaker 1: There's not a lot of time between eleven and one

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Speaker 1: for them to get all of that done. That's fairly

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Speaker 1: remarkable because Zelenski is visiting officially to sign a landmark

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Speaker 1: economic deal with.

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Speaker 4: The United States.

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Speaker 1: President Trump is basically asking for a reimbursement for US

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Speaker 1: support during Ukraine's war effort. However, a key goal for

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Speaker 1: Zelenski will be to get some kind of security assurances

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Speaker 1: from the US in return, and of course that continued

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Speaker 1: support for its war against its war in Ukraine. President

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Speaker 1: Trump has signaled that's not something he is eager to do.

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Speaker 2: Stakes cannot get higher for this meeting today, and the

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Speaker 2: relationship between these two men, look, it's gotten a little

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Speaker 2: personal to a certain degree publicly, but Ukraine at least,

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Speaker 2: and Zelenski thinks this is a big deal, like, hey,

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Speaker 2: he's meeting with me face to face first before meeting

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Speaker 1: And apparently there's just no hurt feelings by all the

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Speaker 1: words that were exchanged back and forth. And I guess

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Speaker 1: these two men realized that is, of course just unfortunately

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Speaker 1: the way politics are done.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you always tell me that, hey, people need to

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Speaker 2: get over things quickly.

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Speaker 3: This is very impressive.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well we'll continue to run on this Friday morning

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Speaker 2: now with a judge who has just told President Trump

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Speaker 2: to stop firing people. Remember those mass firings of probationary

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Speaker 2: federal employees. Well, President Trump wanted thousands identified and fired

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Speaker 2: as part of his effort to shrink budgets and shrink

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Speaker 1: Those firings, as we have been reporting, have been going

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Speaker 1: on for the past several weeks. But of course the

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Speaker 1: the administration to stop the firings because they are likely illegal.

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Speaker 1: And just to make sure we all understood, the judge

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Speaker 1: put it this plainly.

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Speaker 2: Quote, the Office of Personnel Management does not have any

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Speaker 2: universe to hire and fire employees within another agency end quote.

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Speaker 2: Now it's unclear just how many probationary federal employees had

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Speaker 2: already been fired, but it is believed to be in

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Speaker 3: Their jobs back. So that sucks to be at home.

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Speaker 2: Fired And now a federal judge has come out and said,

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Speaker 2: you know what, you shouldn't have been fired, but you're

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Speaker 2: still not getting your job back.

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Speaker 3: That's a tough one to swallow.

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Speaker 4: It's incredibly difficult.

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Speaker 1: So, and this is probably far from over in terms

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Speaker 1: to be re employed. Ah, it's a mess, all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run. It's official and back on

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Speaker 1: again for now. After a month long postponement, President Trump

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Speaker 1: said his twenty five percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada

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Speaker 1: will go into effect next week, starting Tuesday, March fourth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there will be an extra ten percent deuty on

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Speaker 2: Chinese imports. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that

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Speaker 2: a ten percent tariff he already imposed earlier this month,

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Speaker 2: The President took to social media to explain, saying that drugs,

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Speaker 2: namely fentanyl, were still coming into the US at very

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Speaker 2: high and unacceptable levels.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Trump wrote this on social media. We cannot allow

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Speaker 1: this scourge to continue to harm the USA, and therefore,

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Speaker 1: until it stops or is seriously limited, the proposed tariffs

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Speaker 1: scheduled to go into effect on March fourth, will indeed

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Speaker 1: go into effect as schedules.

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Speaker 2: And in response to the threats of tarifs, Canada has

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Speaker 2: created a fentanyl czar. Mexico has sent ten thousand members

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Speaker 2: Apparently that ain't enough for the president. Meanwhile, Mexico's president

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Speaker 4: So, she is still holding out hope.

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Speaker 1: It seems that she can find a way to make

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Speaker 1: sure those tariffs are not indeed imposed on March fourth.

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Speaker 4: So we shall see.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, The mystery deepened surrounding the

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Speaker 1: deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife and their German shepherd.

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Speaker 1: Authorities say the couple had been dead for quite a

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Speaker 2: The authorities even said there were signs of a mummification

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Speaker 2: on the bodies. Ninety five year old Hackman was found

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Speaker 2: no signs of trauma, no signs of forced entry, just died.

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Speaker 2: Nobody knows how. That's one of the first things people

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Speaker 1: It was the first thing I thought, and so yes,

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Speaker 1: it was shocking. When they sent people out, they tested

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Speaker 1: Investigators are trying to figure out what caused their dest

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Speaker 2: I think they've suddenly fallen, but in two different places.

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Speaker 2: How do two people in two different places just drop

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Speaker 3: It's really really bizarre.

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Speaker 2: The authorities have already completed the autopsy, but no cause

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Speaker 2: there is something suspicious enough.

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Speaker 3: Here that we need to look into it.

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Speaker 4: What in the world.

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Speaker 1: It's so puzzling. It's so puzzling. And Hackmann's family released

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Speaker 1: dad and grandpa. We will miss him sorely. This is

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm only going to mention this. We were

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Speaker 2: talking about him yesterday and all the movies we love.

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Speaker 2: You know what I forgot one, Young Frankenstein?

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Speaker 1: Oh wow?

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Speaker 3: How did I leave that all yesterday? Young Frankenstein?

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Speaker 1: He had such an incredible long list of movies that

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Speaker 4: And he will be sadly missed, all right.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we're going to head to Rome,

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Speaker 1: where no news is good news. The Vatican's latest bulletin

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Speaker 1: reads like well the other ones over the past couple

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Speaker 1: of days. I'll give you the quote as in past days.

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Speaker 1: See they're even recognizing that they're being repetitive. The night

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Speaker 1: was tranquil and the Pope is now resting.

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Speaker 2: See, I didn't think about it the way you just

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Speaker 2: put it. You make sense, they said, as in past days,

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Speaker 2: just acknowledging. I thought they just threw that in there

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Speaker 2: it is nine words and eleven words. They went to

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Speaker 2: fourteen today, woo by adding that little nugget at the beginning.

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Speaker 2: Pope of Francis continues to improve, he will need more

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Speaker 2: Holy Father dedicated the morning to respiratory physiotherapy, alternating it rest.

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Speaker 1: way we translated Italian. I'm not sure, but the Pope, yes,

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Speaker 1: weeks ago today Pope Francis was admitted to the hospital

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Speaker 1: the Dalai Lama. He might know a thing or two

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Speaker 1: about peace, and truly it's in your power.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love knowing that I can make that change mentally

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Speaker 1: and it has a huge impact on the rest of

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Speaker 1: the day and on everyone around you as well.

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Speaker 4: So how about the court of the day one more time?

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Speaker 2: Just one small positive thought in the morning can change

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Speaker 2: your whole day. And with that, folks, we hope you

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Speaker 2: have a wonderful day and a wonderful weekend. We'll always

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Speaker 2: appreciate you running with us. I'm TJ.

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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Roboch. We will see you back

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Speaker 1: here on the Run on Monday.