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

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Speaker 1: and welcome to Morning Run. It's Tuesday, November twenty sixth.

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Speaker 1: I'm Amy Robox.

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Speaker 2: And I am TJ. Holmes and on the run this morning.

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Speaker 2: Macy's is missing one hundred and fifty million dollars. The

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Speaker 2: company says one employee is responsible. But here's the head scratcher.

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Speaker 2: The employee didn't pocket any of that money. We'll get

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Speaker 2: into this.

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Speaker 1: Plus charges dropped. President elect Trump is waking up this

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Speaker 1: morning with two criminal cases no longer hanging over his head.

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Speaker 2: Also, the Menendez brothers won't be home for the holidays

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Speaker 2: after their court hearing yesterday didn't exactly go as planned.

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Speaker 1: Plus he lost on Spotify. Maybe he can win in court.

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Speaker 1: Drake dropping lawsuits instead of diss tracks in his feud

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Speaker 1: with Kendrick Lamar.

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Speaker 2: Also this morning, just announced the twenty twenty four Word

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Speaker 2: of the Year, which saw all of one hundred percent

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Speaker 2: jump in online usage this year. Do you know what

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Speaker 2: the word is, Well, we'll give you the definition. The

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Speaker 2: definition it means reserved, modest, and shy. For the word

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Speaker 2: of the year, which we will reveal that we had

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Speaker 2: to get caught up on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't wait to get into this in just

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Speaker 1: a bit, but first we begin our run on this

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Speaker 1: Tuesday in our nation's capital. The presidency came with a

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Speaker 1: get out of jail free card, and Donald Trump is

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Speaker 1: cashing his in now that a federal prosecutor has dropped

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Speaker 1: two federal criminal cases against him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Special Counsel Jack Smith Monday asked a federal judge

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Speaker 2: to dismiss all charges against Trump in his election interference case,

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Speaker 2: which accused Trump of trying to overturn the twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: election results. A judge granted the request, and that case

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Speaker 2: is now done.

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Speaker 1: In the other federal case, Trump had been accused of

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Speaker 1: mishandling top secret documents. That case was dismissed earlier this year,

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Speaker 1: but Special Counsel Smith was appealing that decision. Yesterday, he

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Speaker 1: dropped his appeals, so that case is now done as well.

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Speaker 2: Smith a bannered his efforts to prosecute Trump, citing long

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Speaker 2: standing Justice Department policy that it does not prosecute sitting presidents.

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Speaker 2: He even insisted that the cases be dropped before Trump

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Speaker 2: is inaugurated in January.

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Speaker 1: However, in his filing, Smith made clear that his decision

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Speaker 1: to drop the charges had nothing to do with the

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Speaker 1: merits of the case, which the Special Council says the

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Speaker 1: government stands fully behind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and this was an expected move by Special Counsel Smith.

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Speaker 2: But even if Smith had not made the move, Trump

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Speaker 2: had sent a not so subtle hint that he was

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Speaker 2: going to fire Smith anyway once he got back into.

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Speaker 1: Offense within two seconds or two minutes, I can't remember.

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Speaker 1: I said.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't so subtle. Yes, it was two seconds, said

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Speaker 2: the guy. But it's incredible. Folks thought these were the

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Speaker 2: things that would keep him from becoming president. Now he's

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Speaker 2: won the presidency and these two cases are bye bye.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. They're keeping him out of jail and certainly keeping

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Speaker 1: him without a record. All Right, We're going to move

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Speaker 1: on now on Iran, where we are heading to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: Eric and Lylemanendez found out yesterday they won't know their

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Speaker 1: fate until next year.

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Speaker 2: Now. The brothers who've been in prison thirty years for

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Speaker 2: the nineteen eighty nine murders of their parents, have been

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Speaker 2: arguing that they should be re sentenced based on new

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Speaker 2: evidence and testimony about years of sexual abuse by their father.

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Speaker 1: Yesterday, a California judge ruled that the brother's re sentencing

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Speaker 1: hearing should be moved from December eleventh to the end

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Speaker 1: of January. The status hearing was highly anticipated. There was

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Speaker 1: a lottery system in place for the limited number of

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Speaker 1: seats for members of the media to witness the proceedings.

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Speaker 1: The hearing was actually delayed for forty minutes because of

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Speaker 1: a technical glitch. The brothers were supposed to appear in

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Speaker 1: court virtually, but after several attempts, they had to settle

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Speaker 1: for just listening to the proceedings over the phone.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like every zoom call we had right the

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Speaker 2: past few years technical issues. Their attorney, Mark Arrigos, waive

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Speaker 2: their right to appear in order for the court to

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Speaker 2: continue with the hearing. The outgoing LA District Attorney has

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Speaker 2: asked the court to reduce the brother's sentences. He did

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Speaker 2: that made their request back in October. That was just

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Speaker 1: But then came election day where that LA District Attorney

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Speaker 1: lost his position to the new one, Nathan Hakman, who

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Speaker 1: takes office next week. Hawkman said he will thoroughly review

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Speaker 1: seventeen boxes of evidence that they both have to go through.

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Speaker 2: So that's nice of the judge to give him a beat.

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Speaker 2: But besides the resentencing possibility, there are two other paths

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Speaker 2: to freedom for the Menendez brothers. One thing they could

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Speaker 2: do there's another petition out there making his way through

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Speaker 2: the courts that points to the new evidence supporting the

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Speaker 2: brother's allegations of child abuse. So another petition about the

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Speaker 2: same thing is kind of floating around on.

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Speaker 1: Us yet Habeas corpus petition, But I don't even know

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Speaker 1: what any of that means. But yes, it's another path

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Speaker 1: to potential freedom for the brothers. The the only other

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Speaker 1: way the Menendez brothers could be freed is Governor Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 1: and he has said publicly now he's going to defer

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Speaker 1: to the new DA's review and analysis of the Menendez

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Speaker 1: case prior to making any clemency decisions, but he certainly

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Speaker 1: could grant the two clemency.

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Speaker 2: And this was incredible to watch. I think we're about

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Speaker 2: to talk about the same thing to see a press

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Speaker 2: conference impromptu happen outside the courthouse with the two their

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Speaker 2: aunts are out there arguing that these boys should be

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Speaker 2: let out. And these are two women who lost family members, siblings, yeah,

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Speaker 2: because of what the Benandaz brothers did.

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Speaker 1: These are the sisters of both of their parents. So

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Speaker 1: the mother and the father, both of their siblings, are saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: we see now, we know now what was going on

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Speaker 1: And they were tearful. It was hard to argue with

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Speaker 1: that when the two people perhaps who were impacted most

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Speaker 1: they want their nephew's freed.

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Speaker 2: Oh would you say, These ladies are in their seventies, eighties,

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Speaker 2: maybe even, but to see them making their plea out

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Speaker 2: there at this point was pretty powerful.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And gari Go's, their attorney, was standing right next

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Speaker 1: to them, saying he believes the brothers will be sent

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Speaker 1: home when that hearing happens January thirtieth or thirty first,

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Speaker 1: if not sooner. But remember he also said that they'd

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Speaker 1: be home by Thanksgiving, and that's clearly what is not

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Speaker 1: happening now. All right, Next up on our run. Let's

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Speaker 1: talk retail, but not for the reason you may think.

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Speaker 1: Macy's of course makes headlines this week every year with

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Speaker 1: their Thanksgiving Day parade and their Black Friday sales, But

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Speaker 1: this year they're making headlines for an entirely other reason. Somehow,

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Speaker 1: some way, a single Macy's employee has been able to

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Speaker 1: intentionally hide one hundred and fifty four million dollars of

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Speaker 1: expenses over the past several years.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this employee was responsible for the accounting of small

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Speaker 2: package delivery expenses. Okay, so I don't know how this

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Speaker 2: is possible. This is the story of the day for

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Speaker 2: me because it's it's a head scratcher. First of all,

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Speaker 2: the question is how did one employee, How were they

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Speaker 2: able to make such huge bookkeeping errors for the past

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Speaker 2: three years without being detected by the auditor. Again, we're

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Speaker 2: talking about one hundred and fifty million dollars that one

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Speaker 2: person is responsible for essentially making disappear right, and there's.

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Speaker 1: An entire company that is supposed to oversee that bookkeeping,

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Speaker 1: so all of that was missed. The second question we

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Speaker 1: have why, how huh? Macy said the employee in question

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Speaker 1: did not pocket any of the money in question, adding

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Speaker 1: that the person responsible for hiding the expenses is no

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Speaker 1: longer an employee. Okay, well, that's kind of an obvious thing.

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Speaker 2: He or she got fired, but they wouldn't say. They're

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Speaker 2: not actually giving us enough information to say. And again,

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Speaker 2: how long and when was it discovered? The person just disappeared.

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Speaker 2: They didn't tell us that they've been fired.

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Speaker 1: It's bizarre, and so there are theories floating out now

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Speaker 1: because there's a big vacuum of information. One possible theory

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Speaker 1: as to why this now former employee would want to

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Speaker 1: hide such large amounts of money without stealing any of

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Speaker 1: that money. Well, an industry expert believes the employee you

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Speaker 1: might have been trying to boost the profits in his

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Speaker 1: or her department to increase compensation. So maybe there was

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Speaker 1: a bonus attached to their profit margin, and so they

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Speaker 1: But it still seems like an elaborate and insane scheme

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Speaker 1: to have concocted, thinking how or when they would eventually

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Speaker 2: Okay, so many questions, But why would you hide one

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million if you're not going to personally

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Speaker 2: benefit that money didn't go into your account. But you're suggesting,

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Speaker 2: or some are suggesting that maybe this got the person

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Speaker 2: a bonus or promotion or something by showing that the

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Speaker 2: books were more in favor for Macy's.

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Speaker 1: Correct. So yeah, showing more profitability when you hide the expenses.

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Speaker 1: Now you're just showing profit, you're not showing expenses. So

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Speaker 1: that might create a profit margin, which creates a bonus.

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Speaker 2: That's all speculation. I'm not buying any of it yet

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Speaker 2: that one employee was able to do this now. Mazie

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Speaker 2: said it would provide details on its investigation in mid December,

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Speaker 2: but insisted that the faulty accounting did not impact cash

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Speaker 2: management or payments to vendors. Macy's was today supposed to

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Speaker 2: report it's quarterly earnings, but they delayed that report because

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Speaker 2: they are dealing now with fixing the books.

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Speaker 1: If you will, one hundred and fifty million dollar error.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to uncook the books.

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Speaker 1: Three years, fifty million dollars a year poof they have

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Speaker 1: no idea how, when, where, why, Like that's kind of

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Speaker 2: One thing to keep in perspective here, that one hundred

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Speaker 2: a lot, but relatively speaking, it's possible because Macy's actually

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Speaker 2: had almost four and a half billion dollars in expenses

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Speaker 2: related to deliveries. Four and a half billion. If one

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Speaker 2: up as easily as it might in my account.

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Speaker 1: That's wild perspective, but duly noted.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, folks, we'll stay with us on this

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Speaker 2: Tuesday Morning run. Coming up next, the fight between Drake

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Speaker 2: and Kendrick Lamar continues, but this time is going to court.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to your Tuesday Morning run. And next up

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Speaker 1: on the run, Drake picked a fight lost and now

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Speaker 1: says the other side cheated. The much talked about and

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Speaker 1: wildly entertaining Drake Kendrick Lamar rap beef apparently isn't over yet.

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Speaker 1: After taking an unexpected legal turn.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Drake is accusing Universal Music Group of a conspiration

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Speaker 2: to artificially inflate the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's Not like Us.

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Speaker 2: If you don't know that song, we would like to

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Speaker 2: welcome you back from whatever rock you've been under for

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Speaker 2: the past year, because that song became record breaking and ubiquitous.

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Speaker 2: It was a mega hit and is the song that

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Speaker 2: effectively served as the knockout blow that ended the rap

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Speaker 2: beef between the two superstars.

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Speaker 1: It plays in this apartment at least once a day,

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Speaker 1: maybe more. But now in a court filing, so Drake's

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Speaker 1: company is claiming that Universal was part of an illegal

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Speaker 1: scheme to manipulate streaming services in airwaves to make not

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Speaker 1: Like Us go viral, and that the company used bots

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Speaker 1: and even paid streamers to boost the song's popularity. Now.

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Speaker 2: Universal Music Group responded pretty strongly called the allegations untrue

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Speaker 2: and offensive and said quote, no amount of contrived and

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Speaker 1: It's demure. Huh. I mean, I feel completely out of touch.

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Speaker 1: Demure gained viral fame from TikToker juwel Lebron, who coined

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Speaker 2: You're looking at this this morning, robes. But the White

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Speaker 1: The word demure jumped twelve hundred percent in digital media

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Speaker 1: Brain rots not once, neither have I. Now my kids

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Speaker 2: You were excited about demur this, don't you knocket this

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Speaker 2: the loop on this one. Hallucinate was the word of

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two, the world was common. Twenty twenty one

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Speaker 2: But it's true. The Lord gives you family. A family

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it reminds me of you can't you can't. You

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Speaker 1: a very demure So the demure wait, it's very demuror

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