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Speaker 1: So welcome everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ.

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Speaker 1: Robes Sitting next to me, it has been a hell

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Speaker 1: things have been coming our way for news that a

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Speaker 1: lot of people expected that finally came.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Kim Godwin, president of ABC News, has announced

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Speaker 2: that she is leaving not only ABC News but the

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Speaker 2: entire broadcast television industry. And she announced that late last night,

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Speaker 2: and as you might imagine, text kept coming our way.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because I think maybe many of you, and

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Speaker 2: felt like justice was served now that Kim Godwin is gone.

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Speaker 2: But that is not the case. And I want to

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Speaker 2: way to describe how I feel is sad. It's sad

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Speaker 2: when someone loses their job. It's sad when someone leaves

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and folks who are maybe getting caught up a

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Speaker 1: This was the person who made the phone call at

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Speaker 1: So I did you got message this morning? And look

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Speaker 2: No, not at all. And I think it it opens

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and look we've talked about here, and it admitted

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Speaker 1: It's crazy as it sounds. We root for them, we do.

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Speaker 2: No, absolutely not, and we wish nothing but success in

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Speaker 1: I'm dusting off the resume. I'm going to submit my name.

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Speaker 1: It's not that funny, Andy Geez Okay, I'm producing here. Okay,

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Speaker 2: Everybody feel You would be the charisma guy and also

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Speaker 2: That's it's good to know what you're good at, also

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Speaker 1: Charisma and decor. There's no food in this restaurant.

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Speaker 2: You know you've got the food. You're really good at that.

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Speaker 2: And I said, could I just name one drink?

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Speaker 1: That's all?

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Speaker 2: That's all I wanted to do. No, No, So yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I'm just I. We really wanted to come and

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Speaker 2: to make sure that we reflected on our experience, but

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Speaker 2: I really wanted to make it clear that we aren't

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Speaker 1: And this is a This is a a person that,

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Speaker 1: And but this was someone that we do, over time

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Speaker 1: much into her fam you right, her Alma mater. When

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Speaker 1: you get to know somebody on that level, that's a

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Speaker 1: in regards to you, and no matter how things might look,

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Speaker 1: and in somewhatever headline you might see, this is a

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Speaker 1: go out to as human beings. And that that sentence

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Speaker 1: the woman who made the call that says TJ don't

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Speaker 1: come back into work and I never went back in

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Speaker 1: and it just I don't know, maybe it is empathy, Rose,

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Speaker 1: but just to see the news, it wasn't celebratory. And

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Speaker 1: we do we wishing everybody with ABC News well, and

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Speaker 1: the other reason you said we wanted to come here

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Speaker 1: asking us for comments.

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Speaker 2: Here it is, there's our comment. We wish everyone the best,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, we wish nothing but the best for Kim

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Speaker 2: and her future and getting to be with her family

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Speaker 2: and getting to do the thing she loves and getting

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Speaker 2: to take a break it's a crazy, crazy thing to

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Speaker 2: be in the news business at that level. It is

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Speaker 2: a twenty four to seven job. And so I hope

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Speaker 2: she gets to enjoy yourself.

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Speaker 1: If nothing else, Kim, take it from us, there is

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Speaker 1: life outside of the newsroom, and you might actually enjoy

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Speaker 1: it when you get out of there and you're not

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Speaker 1: in that same grind. It don't feel that same pressure.

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Speaker 1: And it's just amazing how much life has changed for

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Speaker 1: us by getting away from that and not voluntarily, sure,

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Speaker 1: not voluntarily, but getting away from it. So to our

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Speaker 1: friends at ABC News, to our friends at Good Morning America,

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Speaker 1: we are we will forever. We're rooting for you. We're

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Speaker 1: rooting for you in this time of transition. We root

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Speaker 1: for you in your ratings battles with The Today Show

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Speaker 1: and CBS this Morning. We root for you that the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals will be high rated, so you get the

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Speaker 1: residual we are rooting for you. And I didn't think

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Speaker 1: about it until you said it. This This was not

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Speaker 1: the button for us. The closure was when we saw her,

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Speaker 1: got to hug, got to see her face again, got

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Speaker 1: to say whatever we wanted to say, and moved on.

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Speaker 1: That was our closure months ago.

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Speaker 2: And I really really felt peace after that, and I

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Speaker 2: hope she feels that piece as well.

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Speaker 1: So, folks, you can continue to keep up with throbok

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Speaker 1: and I here on the podcast on our Instagram page.

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Speaker 1: The official one for the show is at Amy and

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Speaker 1: TJ Podcast. We have our individual accounts as well, but

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you all. As always, we spend a little

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Speaker 1: time with us