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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 for today's morning run.

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Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, August twentieth. I'm Amy Robots and.

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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. What's that sleep school robes?

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Speaker 1: Oh my battery died?

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Speaker 2: I got a sixty one. This is where we are today.

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Speaker 2: It's exactly where we should be after a birthday celebration

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Speaker 2: like we had yesterday. So this is going to be

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Speaker 2: a doozy. You all bear with us on this morning run.

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Speaker 2: We've been hearing a lot robes of course. Hurricane Aaron.

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Speaker 2: I think we stopped paying attention to a certain degree

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Speaker 2: because we kept being told it wasn't going to make landfall.

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Speaker 2: But this thing is calling some real serious, very dangerous

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Speaker 2: conditions still for the US.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Dozens and dozens of water rescues have already happened.

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Speaker 1: Beaches are shut down, there is no swimming on beaches

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Speaker 1: all up and down the East Coast for good reason.

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Speaker 1: Rip currents, dangerous waves, and they say, yes, the worst

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Speaker 1: is still to come Thursday into Friday. Things could still

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Speaker 1: be bad until it finally heads out further into sea.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment. Also making

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Speaker 2: headlines today a comment that President Trump may talking about

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Speaker 2: our museums focused too much on the fact that slavery

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Speaker 2: was bad. That's the headline. He did actually say that,

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Speaker 2: and he wrote it actually, yes, in a social media post.

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Speaker 2: But Roges, we need to give the full context of

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Speaker 2: what he said. We're not gonna judge, but he said.

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Speaker 1: It, he wrote it. HiT's undisputed.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, those Epstein files that the DOJ said

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Speaker 2: they would not be releasing, well turns out somebody else

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Speaker 2: might release them anyway. Also, those Texas Democrats, how do

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Speaker 2: you like this new tactic? They went on the run.

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Speaker 2: Now they're having a sleepover.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they like their families very much.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they haven't been on tell you what those Texas

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Speaker 2: Democrats who fled are now doing. Also, this is not

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Speaker 2: going to help the relationship between the City of DC

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Speaker 2: and the DOJ. Well, the DJ is now investigating DC

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Speaker 2: over some crime statistics. We have another legionaire death to

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Speaker 2: tell you about in New York. Also, favorite story of

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Speaker 2: the day. We see this every once in a while,

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Speaker 2: surprise performances by superstars. Right, nobody know they're in the crowd,

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Speaker 2: and they hop up and do a surprise performance. This happened.

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Speaker 2: Justin Bieber did this in front of thousands when a

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Speaker 2: DJ was performing.

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Speaker 1: We thought that was Justin Bieber, except it wasn't Justin Bieber,

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't even an American.

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Speaker 3: But this is a guy who literally has all the tattoos,

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Speaker 3: like the exact same tattoos as Justin Bieber, looks like

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Speaker 3: Justin Bieber, and if you check out the video, it's

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Speaker 3: hard to believe it wasn't Justin Bieber.

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Speaker 2: So he takes his job seriously and he fooled an

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Speaker 2: entire crowd. My favorite story of the morning. But we

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Speaker 2: will begin on the run this morning in North Carolina,

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Speaker 2: where a state of emergency has been issued as Hurricane

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Speaker 2: Aaron brings dangerous waves and rip currents now to the

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Speaker 1: The category two storm is not going to officially make

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Speaker 1: landfall in the US, but there's a tropical storm warning

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Speaker 1: for North Carolina's outer banks and mandatory evacuation orders in

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Speaker 1: place for some of those residents and visitors. Authorities already

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Speaker 1: rescued more than fifty people from the ocean at Wrightsville Beach.

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Speaker 1: Swimming has been banned on beaches from North Carolina all

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Speaker 1: the way up to New York.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there are high surf advisors in play stretching from

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Speaker 2: Florida and Massachusetts. Tomorrow, waze as high as twenty feet

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Speaker 2: could hit the Carolinas as Hurricane Aaron makes its closest

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Speaker 2: pass to the outer banks and then heads out to sea. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: authorities are warning beach goers up and down the East

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Speaker 1: All right. Next up on the run, the Justice Department

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Speaker 1: said it would not be releasing any more Epstein files,

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Speaker 1: but the public might get to see those files after all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the DOJ earlier this

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Speaker 2: month for the documents related to the government investigation and

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Speaker 2: to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The committee now

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Speaker 2: says it expects to receive those files this week, and

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Speaker 2: we'll begin the process of reviewing, redacting, and then releasing

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Speaker 2: them to the public. Here we go, Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Buckle up, everybody, all right. Next up on the run,

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Speaker 1: Texas Democrats ended their road trip their next tactic us sleepover.

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Speaker 1: Some Democrats are now sleeping in the House Chamber of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, these Dems say after returning to the state Capitol,

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Speaker 2: they were forced to sign these so called slips in

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Speaker 2: Republicans are trying to keep these Democrats from fleeing the

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Speaker 2: state again in an effort to prevent Republicans from passing

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Speaker 2: a redistricting bill that could give their party a bigger

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Speaker 2: advantage in Congress.

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Speaker 1: At least one refused to sign the permission slip initially

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Speaker 1: more Democrats joined her last night, some tearing up their

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Speaker 1: permission slip, saying it was a mistake for them to

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Speaker 1: sign them in the first place. Meanwhile, they're already in

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Speaker 1: the midst of another special session to take up the

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Speaker 1: same redistricting measure. So this really just feels like a

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Speaker 1: lot of theater, all right.

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Speaker 2: Continuing on the right, now, we had to a place

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Speaker 2: that is the master of theater, Washington, DC. The Department

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Speaker 2: crime rates appear lower than they actually are. Newly meanted

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Speaker 2: US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Piro, is

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Speaker 2: leading the investigation that we'll look at both police and

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Speaker 1: Last spring, Metro Police Commander Michael Pulliam was suspended over

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Speaker 1: allegations that he altered crime data. Those are allegations he denies,

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Speaker 1: by the way. But President Trump posted this about the

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Speaker 1: investigation on social media, saying DC gave fake crime numbers

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Speaker 1: in order to create a false illusion of safety. This

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Speaker 1: is a very bad and dangerous thing to do, and

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Speaker 1: they are under serious investigation for so doing.

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Speaker 2: All right. So Trump went on to tout that since

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Speaker 2: he brought in the National Guard, DC is perhaps the

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Speaker 2: safest city in the world and quote getting better every

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Speaker 2: single hour. The DC mayor has pointed to crime stats

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Speaker 2: federal takeover of police in DC was unnecessary.

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Speaker 1: But even the head of the DC Police Union acknowledged

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Speaker 1: has a hard time believing the numbers are down that much, saying,

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Speaker 1: I think there are concerns about the accuracy of the numbers.

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Speaker 1: He went on to say this, what we know, what

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Speaker 1: robbery to carjacking, to stabbing to shooting, and we just

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Speaker 1: know that crime is ubiquitous and it's all in every

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Speaker 1: crime is down, you shouldn't be worried about that. That's

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Speaker 2: I believe that, But it can also be true that

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Speaker 2: crime stats are down. So what do we believe? These

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Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine how you manipulate numbers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: at a certain point, the investigation is going to show

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Speaker 1: the numbers that are truly there, and they how they

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Speaker 1: compare a year to year, But.

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Speaker 2: Our government officials we keep like we can't believe anything.

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Speaker 2: I believe those stats because they're in my favor. Those

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Speaker 2: there's nothing to believe.

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Speaker 1: It's it. It really is making everyone seem like they're shady.

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Speaker 1: It's hard to imagine what's true when what's not.

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Speaker 2: Continuing on the run, now, I will stay in DC

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Speaker 2: or The White House confirmed previously that the administration would

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Speaker 2: be reviewing the content at Smithsonian museums, but President Trump

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Speaker 2: went a step further yesterday, saying that museums focus too

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Speaker 2: much on quote how bad slavery was end quote. Now,

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Speaker 2: these headlines are going to be everywhere. Some of them

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Speaker 2: are clickbaity, sure, but he did use that line. And

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Speaker 2: we'll give you the full text and full context of

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Speaker 2: what the President said and his truth social posts all.

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Speaker 1: Right, quoting the President here. The museums throughout Washington, but

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Speaker 1: all over the country are essentially the last remaining segment

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Speaker 1: of woke. The Smithsonian is out of control, where everything

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Speaker 1: discussed is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was,

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Speaker 1: and how unaccomplished The downtrodden have been. Nothing about success,

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Speaker 1: nothing about brightness, nothing about the future. We are not

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Speaker 1: going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed

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Speaker 1: my attorneys to go through the museums and start the

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Speaker 1: exact same process that has done that has been done

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Speaker 1: The country cannot be woke, because woke is broke. We

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Speaker 1: people to talk about it, including in our museums.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell me the line the Smithsonian discusses too

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Speaker 2: much how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: How unaccomplished the down trodden have been? What does that

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Speaker 1: That seems strange. It's just to talk about I guess,

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Speaker 2: How unaccomplished the downtrodden have been. All right, Well, the President,

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Speaker 2: you might remember, signed an executive order in March directing

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Speaker 2: his administration to remove what he calls improper ideology from

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Speaker 2: the administration said it's review of the museum's aim and

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Speaker 2: I quote again to ensure alignment with the President's directive

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Speaker 1: I don't know why that's just all so very scary

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Speaker 1: to me. But to your point about the numbers, this

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Speaker 1: would be another point where you say, just because you

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Speaker 1: don't like history or you don't like the truth, doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean you should just erase it.

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Speaker 2: It's part of I don't know how you talk American

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Speaker 2: history or the history the founding of this country without

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Speaker 2: talking about some things that happened which were ugly.

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Speaker 1: Sure, and we learn from our mistakes by acknowledging them,

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Speaker 1: not by making them disappear. Alrighty well, next up on

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Speaker 1: the run, we're gonna head to New York City, where

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Speaker 1: a fifth person has now died from Legionnaire's disease. Fourteen

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Speaker 1: people remain hospitalized. More than one hundred and eight people

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Speaker 1: have been sickened in the outbreak that has plagued central

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Speaker 1: Harlem since late July.

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Speaker 2: Now, the bacteria that causes Legionnaire's disease was found in

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Speaker 2: twelve cooling towers in ten buildings, including Harlem Hospital and

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Speaker 2: several retail stores. The city says all of the towers.

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Speaker 1: Have now been cleaned, but legionnaires is a type of

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Speaker 1: pneumonia that occurs when people breathe in that contaminated water vapor.

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Speaker 1: Symptoms usually begin within two days to two weeks after exposure,

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Speaker 1: and it is treatable with antibiotics, So city officials continue

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Speaker 1: to urge people if you're feeling flu like symptoms, please

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Speaker 1: please please go to the hospital.

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Speaker 2: This just keeps going. When we first heard about this,

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Speaker 2: I thought, Okay, they'll get this wrapped up. It's kes lingered, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 2: and now another death that's huge, scary. All right, we'll

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Speaker 1: It is two thousand, man, there you go manipulating the

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Speaker 2: I put this in there because I thought it was cool.

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Speaker 2: All right, well folks, well we let you go on

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Speaker 2: this Wednesday. Something we would like for you to consider

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Speaker 2: it is our quote of the day.

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Speaker 1: In the end, it's not the years in your life

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Speaker 2: Is an that the thing? Don't we always we just

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Speaker 2: want to what's our goal, usually to live longer. We

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Speaker 1: We're thinking of quantity over quality. For sure. I thought

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Speaker 1: I love it. Thank you, Abraham Lincoln, Thank.

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Speaker 2: You Abraham Lincoln. With that, folks, we always appreciate you

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Speaker 1: For now, I'm t Jhilan and I'm Amy Robock. Have

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Speaker 1: a wonderful Wednesday. Everybody,