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

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Speaker 1: everyone to this Saturday edition, a weekend edition of Morning

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Speaker 1: Run where we talk about the stories that kept us

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Speaker 1: talking after we turned off our microphones on this week's

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Speaker 1: Morning runs.

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Speaker 2: And we have a ton of.

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Speaker 1: Stories to get deeper into, but I don't know, Let's

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Speaker 1: begin with perhaps the one that the world is talking about,

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Speaker 1: Pope Leo the fourteenth, the first American pope in the

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Speaker 1: history of the Vatican. And really, you and I watched

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Speaker 1: it happen, and I think, like most of the world,

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Speaker 1: we were shocked, and then at least for probably most Americans,

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Speaker 1: I felt a sense and a source.

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Speaker 3: Of pride, incredibly excited.

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Speaker 4: You know, I had some initial concerns about the rest

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Speaker 4: of the world being turned off by here they go again,

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Speaker 4: we had another American in some power position. We are already, right,

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Speaker 4: we're always the the I don't want to call us

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Speaker 4: the bully on the block, but oftentimes we're the big dog.

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Speaker 4: And now this powerful position is going to an American

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Speaker 4: as well. I wondered how people receive that. Obviously a

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Speaker 4: lot of people are excited about him, but when you

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Speaker 4: start to hear about him, I'm excited about him bringing

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Speaker 4: American culture to something as archaic in a lot of

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Speaker 4: ways as the Vatican and their traditions.

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Speaker 2: And maybe as secretive.

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Speaker 1: You know, people, there's always been such mystery and wonder

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Speaker 1: about what really happens, what the power structure is truly

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Speaker 1: like inside the halls of the Sistine Chapel and beyond

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Speaker 1: in the Vatican. But I do think there is, at

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Speaker 1: least for us as Americans, there's so much relatability. This

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Speaker 1: is a dude who comes from Chicago, He went to

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Speaker 1: Villanova University. He has family, obviously still his brothers talking

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Speaker 1: to reporters saying he at a young age always knew

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Speaker 1: he wanted to go into some sort of service within

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Speaker 1: the church. And I believe it's pretty remarkable. Someone came

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Speaker 1: up to him, his brother told the story early on

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Speaker 1: in his life and said, you're going to be the

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Speaker 1: first American pope. That's pretty remarkable that this is a

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Speaker 1: man whom I have no reason not to believe.

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Speaker 3: I heard stories like that before.

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Speaker 4: People who end up in big positions, they say when

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Speaker 4: they were a kid, I always knew.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, it's a it's kind of a cool

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Speaker 1: story that from a very young age, he felt called

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Speaker 1: incredibly remarkable. And to think he actually not just he

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Speaker 1: he got there, he was voted on by one hundred

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Speaker 1: and thirty two other cardinals.

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Speaker 2: Who chose him. So it's it's cool.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't some popular election or what the world wanted.

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Speaker 1: These cardinals who got to know each other, and most

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Speaker 1: of them didn't know one another because they were newly

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Speaker 1: appointed by Pope Francis. And I think it's it says

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Speaker 1: something about him and who he is that he was

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Speaker 1: able to get the collective support from all of these

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Speaker 1: cardinals from around the world.

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Speaker 4: And the Villanova is a great school. Chicago's a great town.

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Speaker 4: But when you think about the elites in this country,

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Speaker 4: Bella was a great school. But in Chicago's a great time.

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Speaker 4: But it's still not New York. It's still not La

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Speaker 4: There's something still blue collar about those places salting over

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Speaker 4: in Chicago. Those are places you've got to be in

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Speaker 4: little grime to you, there's something it says about him

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Speaker 4: those two places, even so I look forward to seeing

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Speaker 4: what this guy does. Haven't heard him speaking was yet.

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Speaker 1: I'm in school.

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Speaker 2: I haven't earlier. Like they've put out some of his

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Speaker 2: earlier it not as pope.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, he's only been speaking in Italian and Spanish,

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Speaker 1: that's what we've heard. I know he knows some Latin.

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Speaker 1: I believe I was looking he knows. I mean, this

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Speaker 1: is a he was living in Peru. He is a

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Speaker 1: learned man and knows multiple languages and is going to

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Speaker 2: It's exciting.

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Speaker 1: It's from the interviews I heard from him earlier, when

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Speaker 2: I hate to say just a bishop or a cardinal.

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Speaker 1: But it's funny. My family hails from Michigan. I got

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Speaker 2: And to hear him.

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Speaker 1: Speak like my family speaks was so interesting because when

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we're rooting him on and we cannot wait

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Speaker 1: hear a little bit of English from him. Also, another

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Speaker 1: story that kept us talking. You loved this one, TJ.

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Speaker 1: Because it's so hard to get your head around. The

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Speaker 1: Navy found a way in less than a week to

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Speaker 4: Then lose him in battle. They weren't shot down by

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Speaker 4: the enemy. They fell off the side of an aircraft carrier,

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Speaker 4: same one. Somebody's got to get fired for this something.

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Speaker 4: But an investigator, should planes even be taking off from

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Speaker 3: This is wild to me. This is in the Red Sea.

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Speaker 4: Of course they're supporting the US operation against the Huthis

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Speaker 4: is what this aircraft carrier the USS.

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Speaker 2: Truman, right, Yes, USS Truman one.

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Speaker 4: The toe crew just lost control of the one as

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Speaker 4: they were towing it. It just rolled, literally rolled off

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Speaker 4: the side of an aircraft carrier. Eight days later, another one

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Speaker 4: no major injuries, we should say, but this blows my

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Speaker 4: mind that we can just waste we just dropping planes.

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Speaker 2: It's it's frightening and hard to imagine.

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Speaker 1: Like and thankfully, look, I have had a unique experience

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Speaker 1: to actually be in an air on a Fa eighteen

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Speaker 1: years and years ago. But when you hook on that

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Speaker 1: news that no one was hurt. But someone has to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is look, we expect losses, but like if

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Speaker 4: it happens in war and military operations, you can't just

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Speaker 1: The first one had you talking, the second one your

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Speaker 4: They have got to stop that. They need to take

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Speaker 4: the USS Truman out of commission. I forgot what's going on?

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Speaker 1: All right, So you know, here's another story that just

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Speaker 1: it had us ah sad. And then moving on to

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Speaker 1: a larger question. So the news of Smokey Robinson in

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Speaker 1: this fifty million dollar lawsuit. This is a Motown legend.

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Speaker 1: His music is iconic and still holds to this day.

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Speaker 1: You love him, you love his voice, and then you

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Speaker 1: hear these heinous acts he's accused of committing by four

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Speaker 1: it gets into this larger question of can you you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't know. He hasn't been proven to have done

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Speaker 2: But then you still.

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Speaker 1: Start to wonder, can you separate the art from the

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Speaker 3: Should maintain it.

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Speaker 4: We should also make sure we say he has maintained

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Speaker 4: his innocence.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: These are vile and false allegations from people trying to

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Speaker 4: shake them down for money. We have seen cases like

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Speaker 4: that before. I'm sure we have also in cases where

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Speaker 4: out and end up guilty. Not suggesting that about Smokey.

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Speaker 4: It's just it's eighty. He's eighty five years old. We

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Speaker 3: He was an original.

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Speaker 4: He was like, he's royalty when it comes to music

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Speaker 4: and certainly motown. We were asked this question something completely unrelated,

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Speaker 4: having to do with Woody Allen right watching his art.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can you watch his movies knowing what you

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Speaker 3: What do you do? What do we do?

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Speaker 4: Again, Smokey Robinson is innocent. We just this is is said,

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Speaker 4: He's innocent. I'm saying we It just reminded us in

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Speaker 3: What do you do with their art?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? You start thinking about r Kelly Michael Jackson, Sean

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Speaker 1: Diddy Coombs. These are people who have created art and

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Speaker 3: Oh, legendary stuff all.

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Speaker 1: Time great and like nostalgic and takes you back and

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Speaker 3: Well a couple questions.

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Speaker 4: Is that just a personal should that only be a

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Speaker 4: personal conflict and a personal question. But what turns into

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Speaker 1: See that's where I actually do think one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: it is a personal choice, and I don't think that

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Speaker 1: someone who believes and who has been able to judge

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Speaker 1: me if you'd like. But I can separate the art

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Speaker 1: from the artist. I think about it a little bit,

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Speaker 1: But sometimes I have to admit I still enjoy a

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Speaker 1: lot of this music and a lot of those.

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Speaker 2: Movies, And you know you could.

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Speaker 1: There's so many and I just feel like there are

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Speaker 1: so many things we don't know about people. If you're

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Speaker 1: going to start now looking at every single person, even

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Speaker 1: look at politicians, what they've done in the past, what

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Speaker 1: they've been accused of doing, everybody. And I just feel

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Speaker 1: that some acts aren't more heinous than others, but still,

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Speaker 1: I just feel like it's the glass house thing for me.

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Speaker 1: You know, throw the stones, but just remember you live

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Speaker 1: in a glass house. We're all sinners, We've all made mistakes,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not again, I'm not comparing, but I just

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Speaker 4: You know what, I have a limit. I just realized

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Speaker 4: that there are some things I don't want to name, folks,

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Speaker 4: but there are some artists who have done things in

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Speaker 1: Happy day, Analyse, and we got a weddingesday as well,

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Speaker 4: Happy birthday Analyse, and folks, you'll have yourself a good weekend.

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Speaker 1: Right, we certainly will have a great Saturday everybody,