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

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Speaker 1: morning everyone, this is your Morning Run for May fifteenth.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robot and.

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Speaker 2: I'm TJ Holmes. Everybody check out Amy Robot now because

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Speaker 2: she might be a mess later or in party mode.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations is graduation day. You're going to your oldest is

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Speaker 2: going to be graduating today from NYU, and you're either

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Speaker 2: going to be crying like a baby later or party

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Speaker 2: in heart that you got one over with and out

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Speaker 2: of the way.

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Speaker 1: Yes, my bank account is going to be very joyful today.

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Speaker 1: The last tuition payment was made a few months ago.

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Speaker 1: But yes, we're celebrating ava and getting to go to

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Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. That's a pretty cool venue for a college graduation.

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Speaker 1: So I'm very proud of her and all she's accomplished.

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Speaker 1: She is a bright, beautiful human who has an amazing

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Speaker 1: future and I'm excited for her and a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of your parents are going through. That is that

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Speaker 2: season where it's high school, whether it's college, congratulation. Enjoy

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Speaker 2: the season. But we do want to get going on

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Speaker 2: our run this morning, on this Thursday morning, and coming

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Speaker 2: up today, President Trump on the final leg of his

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Speaker 2: four day trip across the Middle East, closing in on

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Speaker 2: his trillion dollar mission. Meanwhile, President Zalinski showed up this

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Speaker 2: morning for peace talks with nobody to talk to, stood

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Speaker 2: up by Trump and Pudin.

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Speaker 1: Plus, the Supreme Court is taking a birthright citizenship and

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Speaker 1: owe so much more. Bottom line, can district judges impose

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Speaker 1: a nationwide block on Trump's executive orders? Also, it is

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Speaker 1: day four of the Sean Diddy Combs trial and star

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Speaker 1: witness Cassie Ventura is back on the stand after a

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Speaker 1: second day of graphic and heartbreaking testimony.

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Speaker 2: Also on the run this morning, some Starbucks baristas on

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Speaker 2: strike this week because they don't like being told what

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Speaker 2: to where to work. Guess not everybody looks good in black. Also,

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Speaker 2: same app, newish name. A surprise announcement, the streaming app

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Speaker 2: Max is changing its name two HBO Max might sound

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Speaker 2: familiar because that was its previous name. No doubt, you know,

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Speaker 2: I went back and I'm not sure which one of

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Speaker 2: those stories is my favorite today, Starbucks or HBO Max,

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Speaker 2: For those two are doozies.

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Speaker 1: It is because you know, I don't know about anyone else,

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Speaker 1: but I still have old apps on my phone and

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Speaker 1: on and I always get confused which one is the

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Speaker 1: right one because they've changed their name so many times.

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Speaker 2: Well, this story is not going to help you. It

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Speaker 2: is certain Max is going back to its old name.

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Speaker 2: We'll explain why and it actually makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we begin our run though overseas where

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Speaker 1: President Trump is on the final leg of his Middle

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Speaker 1: East tour. Trump is headed to the United Arab Emirates

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Speaker 1: after a headline making trip across Katar and Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 1: this week, and he seems.

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Speaker 2: To be getting closer to that trillion dollar goal in

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Speaker 2: the region, securing several lucrative business deals for the US

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Speaker 2: yesterday and cutter totally more than two hundred and forty

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Speaker 2: three billion dollars. That, of course, now in addition to

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Speaker 1: One of the biggest deals happened yesterday with Qatar Airwaves,

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Speaker 1: who announced on an historic who announced an historic purchase

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Speaker 1: ever of its wide body airplanes. The White House released

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Speaker 1: a statement about the sale, calling President Trump the deal

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Speaker 2: He's making deals, but he's also being a diplomat on

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Speaker 2: this trip, not all business. A major breakthrough with Syria,

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Speaker 2: Trump met with series new president yesterday urged him to

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Speaker 2: normalize relations with that country's longtime rival Israel. The request

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Speaker 2: came after Trump announced he would lift all economic sanctions

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Speaker 1: And when Trump flies to Abu Dhabi later today, he

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Speaker 1: deal related to artificial intelligence. So he has been wheeling

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Speaker 1: and dealing across the Middle East. It was noted though,

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Speaker 1: that when the discussions were made about the Boeing jetliners

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Speaker 1: the president thus that luxury Boeing jetliner that will be

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Speaker 2: What is there to talk about. They're giving me a

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said it would be stupid to reject the offer.

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Speaker 2: He we'll continue on this Thursday morning. Run now, and

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Speaker 2: somebody should probably tell Ukrainian President Zelenski that his date

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Speaker 2: is not coming. He arrived in Turkey this morning for

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Speaker 1: You Actually, we were just watching the arrival of Zelenski

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Speaker 1: and you said, there he is all alone on the tarmac.

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Speaker 1: Ukraine and Russia had signaled that the two countries would

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Speaker 1: Zelenski then proposed those direct talks between him and President Putin.

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Speaker 1: Putin even signaled in recent days he was open to

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Speaker 2: But now it appears nobody told Zelensky he is actually

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Speaker 2: It's unclear if the two sides Russian Ukraine will even

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Speaker 2: have their delegations meet. This has been very confusing, very uncertain,

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Speaker 2: you do have a US delegation that's going to be going.

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Speaker 2: Secretary of State Rubio is going to be there, and

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Speaker 2: If they do meet, the Ukraine officials and the Russians,

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Speaker 2: three years. That is no small thing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so let's hope it goes forward. And I mean,

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Speaker 2: But we shall see.

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, we head to d C,

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Speaker 1: where today the Supreme Court is taking up birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 1: Justices will hear arguments over President Trump's emergency request to

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Speaker 1: to end birthright citizenship.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yes, he wants to end birthright citizenship. He wants

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Speaker 2: to limit that to only children born to lawful permanent

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Speaker 2: that the fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution gives citizenship

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you say, it's that simple, And that's what legal

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Speaker 1: scholars say. Trump's planned and birthright citizenship they believe will

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Speaker 1: asking the justices to limit that block to only the

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Speaker 1: Does that make sense?

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Speaker 2: I hope you all catch that, because this is a really, really,

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Speaker 2: really big deal. Because the individual courts a smaller court

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Speaker 2: That's the argument that's now being made. And if he

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Speaker 2: certain people who are suing him. Right, that is a

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Speaker 2: big deal. It is so, yes, he could implement this

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Speaker 2: the legal cases are making their way through the legal system.

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Speaker 2: The ruling could also determine whether lower courts can block yes,

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Speaker 2: didn't realize it was Supreme Court this time of year

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Speaker 2: to convene a case is not really something they do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they say, this is a May surprise that you

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Speaker 1: the level of importance, at least that the justices felt

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Speaker 1: we need the nation's highest court to clear it up.

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Speaker 1: What can happen, what can proceed while there are lawsuits ongoing?

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Speaker 2: Whoo, all right, hope y'all got that.

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Speaker 1: It is confusing, but we will see what the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Next up on the run more explosive testimony yesterday from

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Speaker 2: she said it was ultimately her now husband who stopped

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Speaker 1: Yes. Dressed in a great turtleneck dress and a blackjacket,

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Speaker 1: Ventur also walked the jury through several images they were

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Speaker 1: shown of the so called freakofs. They showed some still pictures,

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Speaker 1: Venor also for the first time publicly acknowledged this settlement

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Speaker 2: May you remember you filed the She filed the lawsuit

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Speaker 2: less than twenty four hours later, he settled, and it

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Speaker 2: thirty million dollars dollars. She conferred yesterday it was actually

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Speaker 2: to be able to stand for the rest of the week.

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Speaker 2: Cross examination the rope starts this morning, and that is

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Speaker 2: going to be some powerful stuff because the defense, as

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Speaker 2: we know, they're supposed to do their job, and she is,

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Speaker 2: by any account a victim. We've seen her be a

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Speaker 2: after her and attack a lot of what she's saying.

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Speaker 2: This is always uncomfortable at trials.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's going to be the defense basically trying to

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Speaker 1: it's most likely going to be getting very uncomfortable in

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Speaker 2: All right, folks, stay with us here not Thursday Morning Ron.

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Speaker 2: When we continue, Starbucks has a problem. Some of their

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Speaker 2: baristas don't like the new dress code. Black ain't for everybody, apparently,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to this Thursday edition of our Morning Run,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what has the baristas so worked up? You ask,

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Speaker 2: That's no good?

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Speaker 1: They say. They liked the previous dress code, which gave

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Speaker 2: Starbucks would even further, They say, Hey, we will actually

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Speaker 2: what's the big deal?

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Speaker 2: But then it seemed pretty serious because the union representing

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Speaker 2: Instead of listening to riestas who make the Starbucks experience

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Speaker 2: like implementing a restrictive new dress code. Customers don't care

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Speaker 2: Well, the argument is those rules we are under a

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Well Starbucks fired back to the union statement,

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Speaker 1: And so the tid for tat continues. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: You want to be sympathetic to the baristas. Obviously you do,

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Speaker 2: Take an issue with the ugly green apron if you

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Speaker 1: When I would have an issue?

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Speaker 2: And the Starbucks are just kidding. We love those green aprons. Okay,

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Speaker 2: no doubt. Favorite story of the day. A streaming app

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Speaker 2: that is clearly having an identity crisis. Max, formerly known

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Speaker 1: Yes, the app currently known as Max, where you watch

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Speaker 2: Some craps. But now as we leave you on this

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Speaker 1: Day from the files of TJ.

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Speaker 2: Holmes.

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Speaker 1: Classy is when you have a lot to say, but

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Speaker 2: How hard is that to do for everybody. It's hard

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Speaker 1: I believe you even said to me yesterday, why are

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Speaker 2: It was somebody we shouldn't call out for being I won't.

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Speaker 2: I say, why are you arguing? You know some mom

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Speaker 1: But for now I'm teaching, and I maybe Robock have

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Speaker 1: a great Friday Eve. Everybody will see you on the

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