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

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, It's Tuesday, February twenty fifth. Welcome to Morning

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Speaker 1: Run now guaranteed available by six thirty am Eastern Time

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Speaker 1: every single day.

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Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ.

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Speaker 3: Holmes and on the run this morning, Elon's deadline comes

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Speaker 3: and goes, and now many federal employees are waking up

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Speaker 3: this morning not knowing if they still have their jobs.

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Speaker 1: Also on the run this morning, there is hope for

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Speaker 1: the pope. There are tears for roberta Flack and a

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Speaker 1: farewell for Lester.

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Speaker 3: Holt, plus a widespread yet very limited listeria outbreak to

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Speaker 3: tell you about. And turns out the reports of Drake's

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Speaker 3: demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Speaker 1: A lot of fun stories to get to and a

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Speaker 1: lot of important information to get to, beginning with more threats,

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Speaker 1: more confusion, more lawsuits, and more potential layoffs. Welcome to Washington,

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Speaker 1: DC these days.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and there was a big deadline for federal employees.

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Speaker 3: It is now now come and gone. It's been in

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Speaker 3: the news a lot. As of eleven to fifty nine

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Speaker 3: pm last night, employees had to respond to an Elon

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Speaker 3: Musk email or be fired or semi fired. According to

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Speaker 3: the President, yes, to use that semi fired. The email

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Speaker 3: was cent to federal employees last week, demanding the explain

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Speaker 3: their recent accomplishments by last night's deadline, even though agency

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Speaker 3: officials were told that responding to the email was voluntary.

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 1: Well, according to Elon Musk, if you did not respond,

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Speaker 1: you risk being fired. And yes, yesterday, President Trump backed

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Speaker 1: him up squarely on that. The two claim a lot

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Speaker 1: of people aren't answering the email because they don't exist,

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Speaker 1: suggesting federal paychecks are going to non exist in employees.

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Speaker 2: However, neither presented any proof of that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so, even though it's voluntary, after hearing Musk and

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Speaker 1: the President, you should definitely answer that email just in case, right.

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Speaker 3: Well, not exactly, because a lot of the employees were

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Speaker 3: giving different instructions from their various a agency. Some were

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Speaker 3: reportedly told to answer the email by giving a list

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Speaker 3: of five things they did last week. Others were told

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Speaker 3: it was optional. Still others were directed don't answer the

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Speaker 3: thing at all.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Even Trump's newly appointed FBI Director Cash Fattel added to

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Speaker 1: the confusion. And remember this is one of Trump's top

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Speaker 1: allies telling his employees not to respond to the email.

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Speaker 1: He cited privacy and security concerns. Adding to all of

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Speaker 1: this chaos, another lawsuit was filed yesterday.

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Speaker 3: Attorneys at reping unions and other organizations filed and updated

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Speaker 3: federal lawsuits saying Musk violated the law by threatening mass firings.

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Speaker 3: That lawsuit calls Musk's actions one of the most massive

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Speaker 3: employment frauds in the history of this country.

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Speaker 1: So what would you do if you were a federal employee, TJ.

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Speaker 3: I would send out my resume just right now. It's

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Speaker 3: just too much uncertainty in the federal government. And I mean,

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Speaker 3: you get it. I get why they would be looking both. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: we're going to probably lose a lot of good people

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Speaker 2: I think that's actually really good advice.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, We're going to stay in Washington,

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Speaker 1: and the Associated Press keeps knocking, but they can't come

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Speaker 2: The Ofal Office just yet.

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Speaker 1: A judge refused yesterday a request by the AP to

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The Associated Press sued after its reporters were barred

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Speaker 3: from the Oval office and Air Force one, but President

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Speaker 3: Trump said, hey, you're welcome to come on back in.

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Speaker 3: All you have to do, AP is say the magic word,

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Speaker 3: that magic word, Golf of America.

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Speaker 1: The AP has refused to go along with the President's

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Speaker 1: renaming of the Gulf of Mexico after he signed that

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Speaker 1: yesterday he wanted both sides to provide fuller briefings on

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Speaker 3: Right on this Tuesday morning. Now we will continue our run.

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Speaker 3: The next leg takes us to Rome, where there is

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we have to tell you

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Speaker 1: about a multi stateless Duria outbreak that has already killed

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Speaker 1: having the most impact on nursing homes.

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Speaker 3: So we had twenty one states impacted here and those

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Speaker 2: Forget this.

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Speaker 2: This is pre pandemic. How is that possible.

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Speaker 1: Well, authorities started looking into cases of listeria that popped

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Speaker 3: But when cases showed up again late last year, investigators

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Speaker 3: make a link with all these listeria cases, and the

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Speaker 3: You see, these shakes were produced by Prairie Farms, Dairy

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Speaker 3: and you know that listeria already does a number on

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Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, I mean that's the good news. They figured

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Speaker 1: do have some awesome, really.

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Speaker 2: Sad news to pass along. ROBERTA. Flack has passed away

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Speaker 1: Of course, she is one of the biggest recording artists

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Speaker 1: she had a particular song that endured well beyond her

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Speaker 3: Flag One back to back Grammys for Record of the

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Speaker 3: Year in nineteen seventy three and nineteen seventy four. That

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Speaker 3: ever saw Your Face. Now, I didn't realize that was

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Speaker 3: Killing Me Softly, a song you'll find on several lists

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Speaker 1: It's killing me right now not to start singing both

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Speaker 1: of those songs, they're so good. Twenty five years after

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Speaker 1: she released Killing Me Softly, this song found a new

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Speaker 1: Yes you know, Lauren Hill, I think I've had that

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Speaker 3: And she did announce several years ago, three years ago

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Speaker 3: My first introduction, probably to Killing Me Softly was Lauren Hill.

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Speaker 3: That was I loved that song first, and then that

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Speaker 2: And really, yeah, I up.

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Speaker 1: But yes, I loved as an adult the Lauren Hill

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Speaker 3: So I was in junior high school with something where

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Speaker 3: What the point I'm making or attempting to make here,

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Speaker 3: And you're sitting two feet from my record stand and

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Speaker 3: she's just I didn't realize this. She was a classically

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Speaker 2: No, that is incredible.

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Speaker 1: Where is the Love is another one of her Where

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Speaker 3: Eighty eight years old, you hear that. Yes, it's sad,

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Speaker 3: but what a life. Right, you have to live a

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Speaker 3: long and full and accomplished life. So thank you. ROBERTA.

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Speaker 3: Flack would stay with us here on this morning, This

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Speaker 3: Morning Run. When we come there is an empty seat

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Speaker 3: over at NBC News. Also, Drake is beating Kendrick Lamar.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you don't believe it either, do you, But yeah,

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Speaker 1: Outlet stay with us. Welcome back everyone to this Tuesday

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Speaker 1: Morning Run. And next up on the Run, some big

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Speaker 1: news from one of our friends and my former colleague,

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Speaker 1: NBC's Lester Holt has announced he is stepping down as

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Speaker 2: He's going to do that at the beginning of this summer.

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Speaker 3: He is going to continue, though, with his full time

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Speaker 3: News ten years ago June of twenty fifteen, after anchoring

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Speaker 1: Lester wrote this to his staff shortly before NBC made

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Speaker 1: I have now anchored two of the most successful and

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Speaker 2: As a twenty.

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Speaker 2: What an amazing ride.

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Speaker 3: NBC News has not yet said who's going to replace Holt,

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Speaker 3: but these are big turnovers. We've seen a lot of

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Speaker 3: out of there, out of these seats. So there's been

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Speaker 1: It's certainly, unfortunately the sign of the times. But I

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Speaker 1: out to Lester. He and I co anchored Weekend Today

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Speaker 2: That role for as long as possible.

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Speaker 1: But I have to give him credit for taking that

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Speaker 1: interestingly enough, he was about to do this, he was

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Speaker 1: So I'm just I'm happy for him that he's finally

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Speaker 3: All Right, we will continue here the final leg of

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Speaker 3: said in quite a while. Drake is beating Kendrick Lamar. Specifically,

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Speaker 3: Drake has the number one album on the Billboard two

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Speaker 3: Lamar's gen X.

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Speaker 1: Kendrick's new album had been number one since its release

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year, and all of Kendrick's

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Speaker 3: Drake, however, is proving to be lyrically very much alive

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Speaker 3: and well, dropping a new album earlier this month which

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Speaker 3: of course, famously brutally humiliatingly lost that rap battle with

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Speaker 1: Entire world and specifically UTJ multiple times every day.

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Speaker 2: Do you want to tell the folks what your ring

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Speaker 2: tone is?

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Speaker 3: Dun dun dunna.

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Speaker 1: Do you know that I have had to in the

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Speaker 2: Dun dun dunna.

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Speaker 1: I had to sing Happy Birthday to myself the other night.

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Speaker 1: I've been told that gets the earworm out of your ear.

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Speaker 1: Do what you gotta do them, but yes, your ring

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Speaker 1: that's all it's taken. Drake's new album, a collaboration with

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Speaker 2: Some Sexy Songs for You.

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Speaker 1: Drake has now had fourteen number one albums on the

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Speaker 2: This is remarkable.

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Speaker 1: There were only two other solo artists to pull that off,

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Speaker 1: say that Kendrick was dancing on Drake's grave. He didn't

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Speaker 2: Was he ever dead?

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Speaker 3: He wasn't he went. I wouldn't even say hiding. He's

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Speaker 2: Well timed.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is one of the things we need

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Speaker 3: and they just like his music. So he's put out

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Speaker 3: He's being there certified Loveaboy, and he's singing a little more,

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Speaker 3: not about the rat beef. So he's gonna be all

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Speaker 3: right improving once again. He is a chart topper.

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Speaker 1: Well, I let this final story be the inspiration for

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Speaker 1: what we'd like all of you to consider as you

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Speaker 1: go about your day today. This is our quote of

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Speaker 3: Never let success get to your head and never let

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Speaker 3: failure get to your heart. Now go with that for today. Really,

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Speaker 3: that's a wonderful quote. You can take it throughout the

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Speaker 3: failure should break you. But it's amazing to think where

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Speaker 1: Yeah, never let success get to your head and never

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Speaker 1: let failure get to your heart. This was said by Drake.

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Speaker 3: Does that take any impact away from it? Knowing that

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Speaker 1: A rappers hit, Well, you know what, it didn't take

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Speaker 3: And difficult, so continues to be.

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Speaker 1: This is the quote he said a while back, So

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Speaker 2: And look at him now, number one.

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Speaker 3: I certainly hope he has. But congrats to him for

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Speaker 3: He is a viable marketable artist. But everybody on this Tuesday,

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Speaker 3: we appreciate you going on this run with us. Certainly

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Speaker 3: hope you see you back here tomorrow on Tuesdays.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Amy Robot. Yes, we hope to see you

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