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

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, and welcome to Morning Run. It is Friday,

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Speaker 1: February fourteenth.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robots.

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Speaker 3: You put a little extra stank on that February fourteenth

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Speaker 3: this morning. Yes, it's a day of love. Hello to

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Speaker 3: you all. I'm TJ. Holmes on on this Friday Morning Run.

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Speaker 3: Pope Francis is in the hospital, TikTok is back, Trump

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Speaker 3: and Elon are co defendants, federal prosecutors are resigning, Hamas

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Speaker 3: is rethinking. RFK Junior is officially your doctor. And today

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Speaker 3: is yes, Valentine's Day. You know Saint Valentine was beheaded.

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Speaker 3: You know that right.

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Speaker 2: I did not know that he was absolutely executed.

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Speaker 3: Tick, ain't it?

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Speaker 1: Thank you for bringing that lovely thought and just you know,

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Speaker 1: we want some history to the day of love, but

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Speaker 1: I did not think it involved a beheading.

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Speaker 3: But it's going to be a beautiful story of how

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Speaker 3: we can get from a beheading to this day of

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Speaker 3: love and chocolates and hearts and cards.

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Speaker 2: And it's what they call a Hallmark holiday.

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Speaker 3: Exact what today is going to be. But wherever you are,

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Speaker 3: hope you're going to have a very very good Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, we have to start this morning with a

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Speaker 3: breaking story out of Rome.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Pope Francis is in the hospital this morning.

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Speaker 1: The Vatican says he is going through some testing and

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Speaker 1: right now he is being treated for bronchitis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The Pontiff had been noticeably under the weather in

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Speaker 3: recent days, breathless at times, and even had to have

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Speaker 3: others stand in for him while he was reading while

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Speaker 3: he was out and they were reading some of his

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Speaker 3: speeches for him. Francis, I remember, is eighty eight years old.

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Speaker 3: He's had health issues over the past couple of years.

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Speaker 3: I think he was in and out of the hospital

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Speaker 3: even the past couple of years or several things.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, I was actually in Rome a few years

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Speaker 1: ago when he was hospitalized the last time. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: as you point out, he's eighty eight years old, and

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Speaker 1: anytime he gets ill and he goes into the hospital,

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Speaker 1: of course, it is breaking news. It's big news, and

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Speaker 1: will of course keep our eye on this developing story.

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Speaker 1: But next up on the run more legal action against

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Speaker 1: the Trump administration. Fourteen states have filed a lawsuit against

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Speaker 1: Elon Musk and President Trump, claiming the power Trump is

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Speaker 1: given Musk through the Department of Government efficiency is unconstitutional.

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Speaker 3: The attorneys general argue that Trump violated the Constitution by

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Speaker 3: creating Doze without congressional approval and in granting sweeping powers

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Speaker 3: to Musk without seeking confirmation by the Senate. Lawsuit says

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Speaker 3: that Musk has no meaningful supervision of his actions, calling

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Speaker 3: him a designated agent of chaos without limitation and in

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Speaker 3: violation of the separation of power as well.

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Speaker 1: And if you thought that was strong, take a listen

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Speaker 1: to what Arizona Attorney General wrote when she participated in

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Speaker 1: this lawsuit. She said, the founders of this country would

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Speaker 1: be outraged that, two hundred and fifty years after our

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Speaker 1: nation overthrew a king, the people of this country, many

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Speaker 1: of whom have fought and died to protect our freedoms,

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Speaker 1: are now subject to the whims of a single, una

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Speaker 3: The state's asking for a court order to block Musk

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Speaker 3: from making changes to government funding, canceling contract and making

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Speaker 3: personnel decisions. White House Press Secretary Carolyn Levitt fought back

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Speaker 3: with these words, saying the lawsuit was a continuation of

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Speaker 3: the weaponization of justice against President Trump.

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Speaker 1: Next up, on the Run, we'll stay in Washington, where

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Speaker 1: the top prosecutor in New York and five other senior

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Speaker 1: federal prosecutors have now resigned after refusing to drop corruption

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Speaker 1: charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

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Speaker 3: Now this comes after the Justice Apartment issued a memo

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Speaker 3: directing the federal prosecutors to do just that, drop the

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Speaker 3: to tackle illegal immigration and violent crime. The prosecutor, Danielle

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Speaker 3: so Soon, wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi the day

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Speaker 3: before her resignation, expressing alarm at being ordered to drop

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Speaker 1: Sassoon also said her office was actually preparing to file

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Speaker 1: to destroy evidence. She also claims that Adam's attorneys offered

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Speaker 1: the Department's enforcement priorities, i e. Immigration and crimes.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you never want to hear quid pro crow when

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Speaker 3: when you're talking about your politicians, But in this case Adams,

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Speaker 3: for his part, the mayor says, this is a total lie.

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Speaker 3: This did not happen. That was the statement from his attorney.

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Speaker 3: So they have offered nothing and the department asked for

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Speaker 3: nothing of us. Meanwhile, the mayor praised the Bonde, saying,

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Speaker 3: she's going after the weaponization of the Justice Department. Adams. However,

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Speaker 3: this is the thing, folks. They have ordered that the

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Speaker 3: charges be dropped. Those charges haven't been dropped just yet,

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Speaker 3: but he's he's still got some issues.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: The Department of Justice said that it could renew its

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Speaker 1: own investigation of Adams's in the future. The mayor has

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Speaker 1: politically motivated. And there was also some back and forth

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Speaker 1: whether or not Sassoon resigned or was fired. Trump flat

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Speaker 1: just flat out not true. Her resignation letter is everywhere.

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Speaker 1: If you go online, you'll find it, and the acceptance

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Speaker 2: So Trump misspoke.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you've fallen along, folks. We what three stories in

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Speaker 3: the Polpe is in the hospital, and we're in and

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Speaker 3: out of court having to do with Trump. So let's

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Speaker 3: stay there, shall we. This is hard to keep up.

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Speaker 3: We've had a discussion this morning of doing a whole

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Speaker 3: separate Trump legal section in the morning run, because these

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Speaker 3: things are hard to keep up with. But we've got

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Speaker 3: the legal stuff. You got firings, you got buyouts, you

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Speaker 3: got resignations. But another significant headline here has to do

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Speaker 3: with mass firings of federal workers. This could affect some

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Speaker 3: two hundred thousand employees.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 1: The Office of Personal Management has now directed all federal

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Speaker 1: agencies to lay off what they call their probationary employees.

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Speaker 1: Those are the people who have had less than a

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Speaker 1: civil service protection. This greatly expands a directive from earlier

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Speaker 1: in the week that told those same federal agencies that

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Speaker 2: Now that's out the window. They want them all gone.

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Speaker 3: So of course, now you know the response the unions

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Speaker 3: representing federal workers they have pledged to fight these firings

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Speaker 3: every step of the way. Might I suggest a lawsuit?

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Speaker 3: The union says employees that I have been given no notice,

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Speaker 3: the probationary period is a continuation of the job application process,

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Speaker 3: not an entitlement for permanent employment.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this will be in the court system for a while,

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Speaker 1: but let's stay in Washington. Shall we next up on

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Speaker 1: Senate voted.

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Speaker 2: To confirm Robert F.

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Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior to become our next Health and Human Services Secretary,

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Speaker 1: despite major concerns over his controversial views on vaccines and

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Speaker 3: Right, this was another win for President Trump. The vote

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Speaker 3: was mostly long party lines Again. Mitch McConnell joined Democrats

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Speaker 3: in opposing a Trump nominee. McConnell is a survivor of

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Speaker 3: childhood polio and released a statement saying, I've watched vaccines

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Speaker 3: save millions of lives from devastating diseases across America and

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Speaker 1: Cures now despite numerous previous comments to the contrary. During

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Speaker 1: his confirmation hearings, RFK Junior said he was not anti vaccine,

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Speaker 1: say McConnell has really pissed off the president. He said

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Speaker 1: the first place. He just went on to disparage McConnell,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that rift will continue.

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Speaker 3: Is he the was he the He was the lone

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Speaker 3: Republican to vote against RFK Jr. And Tulci and Hicks?

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Speaker 2: Correct? Correct?

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Speaker 3: Was the only one?

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Speaker 3: Wow? Yes, Now that's going to go for him the

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Speaker 3: next four years. I'm sure there's a new nickname President's

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Speaker 3: cooking up for him as we speak. We continue our

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Speaker 3: be that to be the new policy in the US

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Speaker 3: and has taken step to impose what he called reciprocal terror.

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Speaker 1: And reciprocal tariffs are exactly what they sound like. The

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Speaker 2: But those days are over.

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Speaker 3: So what countries we're talking about here, which with this

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Speaker 3: The new tariffs, though, would not begin immediately. Rather, the

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Speaker 1: And though we've been hearing a lot about new tariffs

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Speaker 1: and that's the ten percent charge on certain Chinese goods.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll stay with us on this Valentine's Day

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Speaker 3: Also on this Valentine's Day? Do you know why we

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Speaker 3: Actually it was three of them? Could as black? Welcome

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Speaker 3: back everybody to this Friday morning run, our last few

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Speaker 3: stories on this Friday afterdo with Valentine's Day, TikTok being back,

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Speaker 3: with Hamas. They've had a change of heart and now

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Speaker 3: hostages will be released this weekend as scheduled. The group

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Speaker 3: But now all that Hamas has said it will go

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Speaker 3: Valentine's Day. Somebody's going to ask you that question today.

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Speaker 3: You know how, we keep complaining about it's hard to

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Speaker 2: There's so many legal stories. There's so many heavy.

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Speaker 3: But I said, this morning, I said, let's have some fun.

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Speaker 2: That is wonderful.

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Speaker 1: And now it's become a commercial holiday celebrated by all

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Speaker 3: He has nothing to do with saying Valentine Greek mythology, right,

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Speaker 1: And on this Valentine's Day, we still have our quote

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Speaker 3: We're sitting here right now. If we live out youre

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Speaker 2: Stop live out your imagination. I just like the idea

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Speaker 1: It just it feels freeing, and that's something to take

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Speaker 1: We hope you have a lovely day on your Day

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Speaker 3: I'm Anny Robot and I'm TJ.

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Speaker 3: Happy Valentine's Day to you all.