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

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Speaker 2: Good morning everybody from a cold and freezing rainy New

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Speaker 2: York City. Hope you ready to run? On this Thursday,

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Speaker 2: December fifth, I'm TJ.

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Speaker 1: Holmes and I'm Amy Robach and on the run this morning,

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Speaker 1: a brazen killer is still on the loose in New

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Speaker 1: York after the targeted killing of a health company ceo

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Speaker 1: on the street in the heart of Manhattan.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, get this, I'll stop drinking promise. Trump's

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Speaker 2: Defense Secretary pick Pete Hegseth tries to save his nomination

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Speaker 2: by pledging he'll quit.

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Speaker 1: Boozing systemic discrimination. The damning DOJ report condemns the Memphis

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Speaker 1: Police Department for its treatment of black people.

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Speaker 2: Also, with the flip of a switch, the Christmas season

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Speaker 2: is officially underway with the Rockefeller Tree is now being lit. Yes,

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Speaker 2: big ceremony here last night in New York. It's a

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Speaker 2: tradition that goes back some ninety years.

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Speaker 1: And what is Seratonin's strut Pops season. Spotify has a

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Speaker 1: new year ender feature that will have you laughing or

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Speaker 1: maybe even a little embarrassed. We'll get into that in

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Speaker 1: just a bit, but we.

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Speaker 2: Have to begin this morning here in New York, where

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Speaker 2: a gunman is still on the loose after yesterday's brazen

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Speaker 2: shooting in the heart of Midtown Manhattan that left fifty

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Speaker 2: year old Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare dead.

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Speaker 1: It was targeted and premeditated, according to police, and it

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Speaker 1: happened along the sidewalk of sixth Avenue right in front

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Speaker 1: of the Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The mass gunman

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Speaker 1: was waiting outside the hotel for a full five minutes

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Speaker 1: before Thompson arrived around six forty in the morning.

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Speaker 2: And the surveillance video is just chilling. It shows the

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Speaker 2: gunman walking up behind Thompson, pointing the gun at him

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Speaker 2: and firing. After Thompson falls to the ground, you can

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Speaker 2: then see the gunman walk towards him and he was

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Speaker 2: hitting his gun with his hand as he was walking

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Speaker 2: towards Thompson, who had gone down to the ground, presuming

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Speaker 2: presumably the gun had jammed. He then was a to

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Speaker 1: The shooter ran into an alley where police later found

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Speaker 1: his cell phone, and then he jumped onto an e bike.

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Speaker 1: He was seen riding into Central Park and then cycling

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Speaker 1: out of it near eighty fifth Street just before seven am.

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Speaker 1: NYPD detectives are now working with the US Marshall Service

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Speaker 1: and the FBI to try and find the shooter.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but the shellcasings that were left behind at the

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Speaker 2: scene had the words deny, defend, and depose on them.

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Speaker 2: Police are trying to figure that out. They are working

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Speaker 2: to determine whether those words if it's actually a message

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Speaker 2: from the gunman that could help them figure out a motive,

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Speaker 2: which they do not have right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Meantime, investigators are going through the victim's hotel room,

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Speaker 1: piecing together his most recent conversations and activities. They're trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out if Thompson was targeted because of some

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Speaker 1: personal conflict or if it had something to do with

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Speaker 1: his work as an insurance executive.

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Speaker 2: Their shooter certainly seemed to know Thompson's schedule pretty well.

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Speaker 2: He was there ready and waiting for Thompson when he

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Speaker 2: arrived at the Hilton. He arrived hours before he was

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Speaker 2: scheduled to speak at a company meeting, so the shooter

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Speaker 2: had to know he might have been coming in Their

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Speaker 2: early investigators at this point don't believe though, that the

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Speaker 2: gunman was a professional killer for a number of reasons,

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Speaker 2: among them, a lot of mistakes were made, left his

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Speaker 2: of a distance, so they don't think this was a

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Speaker 1: Thompson was visiting New York City from his home in

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Speaker 1: Minnesota to attend a United Healthcare Investors conference. In His

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Speaker 1: company put out a statement saying, we are deeply saddened

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Speaker 1: and shocked at the passing of our dear friend and colleague,

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Speaker 1: Brian Thompson.

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Speaker 2: At Thompson's wife, paul Lette, also put out a statement

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Speaker 2: saying that Brian was an incredibly loving, generous, talented man

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Speaker 2: who lived to the fullest and touched so many lives.

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Speaker 2: She said, most importantly, Brian was an incredibly loving father

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Speaker 2: to our two sons and will be greatly missed.

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Speaker 1: Right now. Police are asking anyone with information to call

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Speaker 1: Crime Stoppers at one eight hundred and five seven seven

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Speaker 1: for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the

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Speaker 1: at a nearby Starbucks just minutes before the shooting, and

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Speaker 2: It's terrifying right now and certainly not knowing what it

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Speaker 2: his work with insurance with the insurance company. A lot

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Speaker 2: of people got beef with their insurance company for a

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Speaker 2: whole host of reasons. Nobody would ever suggest this is

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Speaker 2: the way to take care of it. But also nobody's

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Speaker 2: knows for sure if it had anything to do with

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Speaker 2: his work at United Healthcare. So after the stabbing spree,

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Speaker 2: we had what a couple of weeks ago, and just

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Speaker 2: walking down the street. To be honest, I'm going to

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Speaker 2: continue our run here this morning with these words, I

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Speaker 2: promise I won't drink. As a strange thing to have

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Speaker 2: is Secretary of Defense for the United States of America.

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Speaker 2: But that's exactly what Pete Hegseth is vowing as he

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Speaker 2: continues to fight through the nomination process with allegations of

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Speaker 2: sexual assault and alcohol abuse swirling around him.

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Speaker 1: In an interview on SiriusXM, Hexith made reference to an

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Speaker 1: order in the military it prohibits personnel from drinking alcohol

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Speaker 1: during a deployment. So then he said, quote, that's how

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Speaker 1: I view this role as Secretary of Defense. I'm not

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Speaker 2: Hexcesth refer to the role of Defense Secretary as the

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Speaker 2: biggest deployment of his life and said there won't be

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Speaker 2: a drop of alcohol on his lips while he's doing

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Speaker 2: that job. Hexath went on to deny reports from anonymous

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Speaker 1: And by most accounts, with all of this, Hegseeth is

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Speaker 1: There are also reports out there now that he was

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Speaker 1: replacing heg Seth if necessary, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis

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Speaker 2: It can't feel good, though, if you're applying for a

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Speaker 2: backup options. Desantas though, of course, runs a major state.

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Speaker 2: He is a governor, he was in the military, and

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Speaker 2: talk about here, but the Memphis Police Department uses excessive

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Speaker 2: force and discriminates against black people. I'm going to say

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Speaker 2: that line again and it's in quotes, uses excessive force

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Speaker 2: and discriminates against black people. Those words are used to

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Speaker 2: describe the Memphis Police Department, and those are the official

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Speaker 2: words and findings from the Justice Justice Department after a

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Speaker 2: six month investigation of the Memphis PD following the beating

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Speaker 2: death of Tyree Nichols last year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you may remember Nichols was kicked, he was punched,

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Speaker 1: He was hit with a police baton as five police

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Speaker 2: We do expect to hear from Memphis City officials at

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Speaker 2: a news conference later today. The Justice Department going to

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Speaker 2: over all of the these findings, which are really, like

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that is tough. You are a hometown boy,

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Speaker 1: so to read something like this gotta be gutting this morning.

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Speaker 1: But at least the investigation is pointing something out and

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Speaker 1: But I know you're skeptical. As most people are.

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Speaker 2: Well, just that that story Trry Nichols as a black kid,

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Speaker 2: and the officers involved were all black. I believe all

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Speaker 1: All right, Next up on our run, this is a

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Speaker 1: big milestone. Bitcoin has hit a very large new milestone.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Donald Trump, Bitcoin rose above one hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: The cryptocurrency has doubled in value this year, and most

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Speaker 2: of those games happened after Trump won the election. He

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Speaker 1: Well, the rally yesterday was sparked after Trump then announced

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Speaker 1: his pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins.

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Speaker 1: the crypto world certainly do. He is a former appointee

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Speaker 2: And before the election, bitcoin was trading under seventy thousand,

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Speaker 2: and it finally happened.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been checking it. I've been checking it daily

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Speaker 1: it had been. So we'll see what happened, Vince once

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Speaker 1: Trunk gets into office. But yes, the prediction was by

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Speaker 1: the end of the year it would hit one hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: Well it's done so earlier than expected.

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Speaker 2: All right, and stay with us, folks on this Thursday

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Speaker 2: morning run when we come back Christmas. Or it didn't

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Speaker 2: start on Black Friday, it didn't start on Cyber Monday.

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Speaker 2: It started when they flipped the switch here in New

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Speaker 2: York last night, also bougie football rap season. What did

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Speaker 2: your Spotify tell you? Stay with?

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Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone to the Morning Run. And next up

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Speaker 1: it is officially Christmas season. Here in New York City.

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Speaker 1: The Rockefeller Christmas Tree is lit. All fifty thousand multi

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Speaker 1: colored lights shined merrily on this seventy four foot high

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Speaker 1: Norway spruise that made its way to Manhattan from a

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Speaker 1: tiny man Massachusetts town. And it's topped by something just gorgeous,

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Speaker 1: a Swarovsky star with three million crystals, and it is

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Speaker 2: We have to mention this though this was happening. Was

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Speaker 2: the Christmas Tree lining was very close to where we

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Speaker 1: It is funny. It's called My twenty twenty four Music Evolution.

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Speaker 2: You're well foing Kendrick. All Right, folks, we're gonna continue

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Speaker 1: Yes here it is not having the best situation, but

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Speaker 2: So, folks, not having the best situation, but seeing the

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Speaker 2: So I hope you see the best in yourself in

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Speaker 2: good Thursday. Always appreciate you running with us. I'm t J.

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Speaker 1: Holt and I'm Amy Robot. Have a wonderful day.