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

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, Thanks for joining us on today's Morning Run.

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Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, April second. I'm Amy Robots and.

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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. And what is your favorite Val Kilmer movie? Yes,

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Speaker 2: folks all go up to the news. Val Kilmer has

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Speaker 2: passed away and it has us all thinking about his

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Speaker 2: career and seeing him in what are now iconic roles.

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Speaker 2: What's your favorite?

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Speaker 1: So I have a very strange one, but Willow hands

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Speaker 1: down my favorite movie from nineteen eighty eight. It's the

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Speaker 1: movie He met his wife. Theyson's divorced, but he got

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Speaker 1: his children from that movie.

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Speaker 3: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: I was fifteen when it came out and I fell

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Speaker 1: in love with him.

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Speaker 3: I fell in love with the movie.

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Speaker 1: So yes, that's my favorite.

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Speaker 3: How about you?

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Speaker 2: It's tough. A lot of people are reminiscent, and I

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Speaker 2: guess I have an odd one too. The Ghost and

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Speaker 2: the Darkness. It's a film in which he plays a

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Speaker 2: builder who goes to Africa and his project is upended

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Speaker 2: because of two lions that are killing. He's with Michael

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Speaker 2: Douglass in the movie. It's a wonderful film. It's called

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Speaker 2: The Ghost and the darkness. But anyway, we're going to

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Speaker 2: talk some more about Val Kilmer this morning and some

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Speaker 2: of those iconic roles of course, iceman and whatnot, but

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Speaker 2: said to wake up to the news that he has

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Speaker 2: passed away at the age of sixty five. More on

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Speaker 2: him in just a moment, but also on this morning's run.

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Speaker 2: Today's the day the markets and the world have been

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Speaker 2: bracing for. It's Liberation Day, the day President Trump announces

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Speaker 2: major new tariffs.

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Speaker 1: And employees of the Department of Health and Human Services

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Speaker 1: are bracing themselves for the layoff emails that are now

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Speaker 1: being sent to thousands of employees. This week, plus, New

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Speaker 1: Jersey Senator Corey Booker has made history and his point

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Speaker 1: protesting against the Trump administration and its policies.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, twenty three states and the District of

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Speaker 2: Columbia are suing the Trump administration, demanding billions of dollars

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Speaker 2: they say they're owed. Also, the tens of millions of

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Speaker 2: dollars Elon Musk poured into the Wisconsin State Supreme Court

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Speaker 2: did not buy him the election results he was hoping.

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Speaker 1: For, and Attorney General Pampondi is going for the death

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Speaker 1: penalty against alleged CEO healthcare killer Luigi Mangione after Trump

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Speaker 1: reinstated federal executions on day one of his presidency, and.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, Tiger Woods, for the Wind, the world

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Speaker 2: renowned golfer, took a shot at becoming an international prankster

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Speaker 2: a lot of pranks yesterday on April Fool's Day, Tiger

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Speaker 2: Woods got in on the action. We never got word

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Speaker 2: on the sour Patch kids. Did they ever officially say

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Speaker 2: we were just joking?

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Speaker 1: All I know is at late yesterday we had Sabine

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Speaker 1: come in saying that it was still up and that

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Speaker 1: it still looked like it was just patch kids. Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: we'll have to look for an update on that, all right, But.

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Speaker 2: We're going to start first leg of our run this

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Speaker 2: morning with the news of the passing of really a

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Speaker 2: Hollywood legend who had some iconic roles. We're talking Val Kilmer.

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Speaker 2: He has passed away, as family says, he died last

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Speaker 2: night at home in La surrounded by family and friends.

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Speaker 1: Kilmer was diagnosed with throat cancer back in two twenty fourteen,

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Speaker 1: and dealt with complications from it over the years. He

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Speaker 1: but Ultimately he lost his ability to speak.

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Speaker 3: His family said he died of pneumonia.

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Speaker 2: So you where where do you even want to start

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Speaker 2: with his career And most people will start with Iceman,

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Speaker 2: Batman or Jim Morrison. Those three rolls were standouts in

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Speaker 2: into the nineties. He had a superstar turn. Different reasons

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Speaker 2: for those three roles being standouts in his career. He

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Speaker 2: was giving critical praise for his portrayal Jim Morrison in

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Speaker 2: The Doors that was nineteen ninety one, and then he

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Speaker 2: took over as the Caped Crusader in nineteen ninety five's

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Speaker 2: Batman Forever. Now a lot of Batman movies in that

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Speaker 2: You wait to see who's going to be the next Bond. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that was at a time you're waiting he was going

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Speaker 1: The role, and what a cast that was. That movie

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Speaker 1: was yes, Top Gun. He played opposite Tom Cruise as

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, actually that was a role he didn't

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Speaker 2: Iceman in Top Gun Maverick, I guess in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 2: But that was a you know, you were happy to

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Speaker 2: him a role in that movie. But he communicated in

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Speaker 1: We saw that together, and that was one of the

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Speaker 1: big controversies. People either loved it or they hated it.

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Speaker 1: I personally, it was a little weird, but I liked it.

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Speaker 1: I liked the nod to him, and I liked that

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Speaker 2: He needed to be in that movie. I agree, really

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Speaker 2: really happy they were able to do that. But you

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Speaker 2: go back a little further, and I think he was

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Speaker 2: obviously a harp throw up, a very good looking guy

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Speaker 2: for some of these roles. But this was a guy

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Speaker 2: known for his commitment to roles in method acting, in particular.

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Speaker 2: Now we talked about him playing Jim Morrison in The Doors.

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Speaker 2: They said he actually constantly just wore leather pants and

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Speaker 2: could portray that feeling of dying of tuberculosis. Like he

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Speaker 1: To It's interesting you mentioned he was the heartthrowe. I

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Speaker 1: he was certainly a good looking dude, but yes, his

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Speaker 2: I didn't realize you go back. He was into his

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Speaker 2: first two movies with kind of comedy Spouce, Top Secret

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Speaker 2: check that one out. That was in ninety six. But

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Speaker 2: he survived by his kids, Mercedes and Jack. I five

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Speaker 2: years ago he did a movie called pay Dirt. I

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Speaker 3: He was just so difficult with his voice spot.

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Speaker 1: I was going to point that out. We have over

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Speaker 1: always struck by his joy.

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Speaker 3: He had like a lightness about.

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Speaker 1: Him and a gratefulness about him despite his physical ailments.

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Speaker 1: I mean, imagine, your craft is acting. Your voice is

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Speaker 2: You know what I never got to tell him, and

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Speaker 2: I hadn't thought about that, but Val Kilmer. I can

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Speaker 2: in ways you never ever know. And who knows how

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Speaker 2: many people have vow Kilmer stories out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's pretty cool. Well, I would love to watch

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Speaker 1: The Ghost in the Darkness today. I have not seen it,

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Speaker 1: Run next up on Wednesday's Morning Run. We have mentioned

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Speaker 3: What is today, you asked, It's Literation Day.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not a federal holiday, but that is what

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Speaker 2: President Trump is calling today, the much anticipated day where

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Speaker 2: he is going to announce his new tariffs that earlier

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Speaker 2: this week he referred to as the Big One. The

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Speaker 2: announcement is expected at a ceremony at four o'clock Eastern today.

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Speaker 1: The details of the tariffs are still unknown, which is

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Speaker 1: The idea of a Liberation Day, experts say, suggests that

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Speaker 1: On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive

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Speaker 2: Want we continue on our run here now and stop us?

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Speaker 2: If you've heard this one before. The Trump administration is

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Speaker 2: Final leg. Perhaps the most talked about April Fool's Day

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Speaker 2: We know a lot about this dude. Knowing him as

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Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy time experience? It just you can tell

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Speaker 1: You know what, I didn't even intend this, but this

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Speaker 2: There It is, yes, folks, as we always do something

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Speaker 1: An instant boost, an instant lift. It's just a reminder.

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Speaker 2: You ever have those moments where things are going so like,

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Speaker 2: everything goes bad and you just start laughing hysterically. Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's what it feels like, is life. It happens sometimes,

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Speaker 2: So that's a really really good one. Give it to

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Speaker 2: him one more time.

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Speaker 1: Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway. That

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Speaker 1: is full perspective. Everyone on this Wednesday, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for running with us. I made me robots then.

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Speaker 2: I'm TJ. Holmes. Folks, we always appreciate having you. Will

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Speaker 2: see you back here on Thursday's run tomorrow