May 26, 2026
Morning Run: U.S. Strikes Iran, Peace Talks Continue, Ebola Outbreak Growing, New Hantavirus Case, Pope AI Warning, Trump Doctor Visit, American Music Awards, New York Knicks and RIP Sonny Rollins
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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone. It is Tuesday, May twenty sixth, back to work day for most of us. Hey there, I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: I mean back to stop.
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Speaker 3: I know, but a lot of people are going back to work. I was trying to just commiserate. Be among the people, be among the people.
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Speaker 2: Cantinette, I'm jazz kidding. Hello everybody. TJ Holmes here, Yes, we have made it. Yeah, back to work, but back to New York work. We have had a good weekend out in Napa. That sounds really fancy, I guess some. But this was a very cool event out there. If you ever get a chance to bottle rock. It's a music festival. They call it the Coachella of Napa Valley.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and it was. It was really you know what it was.
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Speaker 1: I've never been to a music festival, I'll be honest. I've only heard about it from my daughters. This one seemed very civilized compared to some of the stories I've heard of Coachella and gov Ball here New York.
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Speaker 3: So yes, it was wonderful.
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Speaker 2: And some of those artists we saw on those stages, including Backstreet Boys, including somber. We literally we saw them one night. The very next night, they were at the American Music Awards in Las Vegas. We'll be talking about that this morning and what was a big night. I'm gonna be making several stops this morning, including yes, Vegas with the AMAS took place, but we'll also be making a stop at the most famous arena in the world, also making a stop in Iran and DC in la as well as in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But let's start robes with a ceasefire in which firing seems to still be going on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those shaky ceasefire continues scenarios. And that is exactly what is going on overseas right now, the US launching new self defense strikes on Iran.
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Speaker 3: At least that's what military officials are calling it.
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Speaker 1: They say the strikes occurred to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.
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Speaker 3: Here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: We sank two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Court ships that they say that the United States says was attempting to lay minds in the Strait of Horne moves.
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Speaker 3: They fire back, We fire back. So yes, it's some tit for tat going on right now?
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Speaker 2: Tit for tat, Yes with that, but also what's happening with negotiations? Apparently they are still taking place. A number of contradictory social media post from President Trump about where talks stood between the US did happen over the weekend, and one of them he said it was largely negotiated, and then another one he said, most of it hasn't been negotiating. Nobody knows what's in it, and so we don't know exactly know where we are. But the Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that peace talks were ongoing, and cutter saying that President Trump is committed to either making a good deal or no deal in all rooms.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so they are working right now. Rubio says on specific language, to reopen the strait of horror moves and to end the fighting, but he said that could take days and again insisted that that shaky cease fire is still in place despite these new hostilities.
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Speaker 2: I want to continue on the run here on this Tuesday morning with an update on the Ebola outbreak and a robes are still using this phrase. They are playing catch up in this outbreak, which is now claimed more than two hundred and twenty lives.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and the number of presumed cases has now shot up to more than nine hundred. The current outbreak being caused by a type of a bola that has no vaccine, no known treatments, and has around a fifty percent death rate. So this is still a very concerning situation. They say there is high risk to folks there in that area, but low risk to those of us here globally.
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Speaker 2: I go from that outbreak as we continue outbreak, and as we continue on this run to the other outbreak that was making headlines every day, the hunt of virus outbreak, where there's a new case, a new confirmed hunt of virus case connected to the outbreak aboard that cruise ship.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Spain is now reporting someone who was evacuated from that ship has just now tested positive. That person had already been identified as a close contact and had been monitored. But yes, this is a reminder that forty two incubation period we're seeing.
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Speaker 3: It play out.
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Speaker 1: It's just remarkable that this particular hauntavirus takes and can take this long to actually present itself.
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Speaker 3: And so yes, eighteen or so Americans remain in quarantine.
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Speaker 1: Interestingly, they all decided to stay put at that Nebraska facility where immediate help would be available should they test polus.
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Speaker 2: And this is why, this is exactly why you stay in quarantine. This person was already monitored. Had they not been, they could have been out shopping. They could have been a convenience store, they could have been somewhere publicly coughing on a subway for all we know. And this is why. But yeah, that forty two days, this is why they have to do.
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Speaker 3: It, yes, all right?
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Pope Leo is calling for artificial intelligence to be disarmed. On Monday, the Pope released a much anticipated papal doctrine, the first of his papacy, by the way, and he chose to focus on AI. He urged governments, businesses, and individuals to slow down the pace of technological development.
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Speaker 2: I thought this was so interesting and telling and important that he chose his first one and to focus on AI. And he's warning that of artificial intelligence spreads misinformation, that more should be done to protect the rights of workers and keep children safe from this technology. He also addressed the number of wars currently in the world, saying that humanity is slipping into a violent culture of power.
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Speaker 1: That is well, we're seeing it play out right now. And he also acknowledged that the Catholic Church did not forcefully condemn slavery until the nineteenth century, and so he took this doctrine to make a personal apology, writing, this constitutes a wound in Christian memory, and for this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon.
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Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to continue on this run. Now. We've had this southern California where disaster averted according to authorities there who now say that chemical tank is no longer at threat of catastrophic explosion. Evacuation orders are being lifted after fifty thousand people were forced to flee their homes as emergency crews worked over the weekend to relieve the pressure on that tank, which started to overheat last week and was a threat of over heating.
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Speaker 1: The good news, fire officials say, yes, they have eliminated that threat now they've been spraying water on it to cool it down, and over the weekend a crack was discovered in the tank, but that actually helped relieve some of the pressure, so that was actually a good sign and so between those two things, the crisis has been averted. This is in the area of Garden Grove. It's about forty miles south of LA The GNK Aerospace Transparency Systems owns this tank and this chemical. It's used to make plastic parts. We're talking about seven thousand gallons of chemicals that could have potentially been released or could have exploded in the area. But my goodness, fifty thousand people. That is a significant number of folks who had to flee that. It was all over the news in California.
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Speaker 3: While we were there over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: I probably wait and stay on my friends couch a few more days. I might too until I stopped seeing steam on that tank on TV. No matter what they're saying here, we going to continue on the run here. Now the ballroom, they're still pushing for the ballroom at the White House and roads. They continue to use security as a main reason for why they need it. Yes, the shooting near the White House over the weekend has sparked this new push for President Trump's ballroom. It is fascinating robes how they are able to connect now this ballroom, which is meant to host parties. They're connecting it to the directly to the President's safety.
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Speaker 1: They're actually making it sound like this could be a bomb shelter for the president, the way Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it in this new language filing something a new filing for the courts because as they talked about this incident, which left a bystander wounded.
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Speaker 3: But Blanche said it underscores the.
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Speaker 1: Critical need for top level, state of the art security at the White House, including the ballroom, writing in this filing that the weekend shooting amounted to a second attempted assassination on President Trump within a single month, referencing once again the White House correspondent sinnership.
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Speaker 2: Such was the date of that, now, right, they were supposed to do that thing again in thirty days. It's been thirty days, didn't that?
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Speaker 1: Oh right, we're coming up on it. It was at the beginning of May, I believe. So we're coming up on that now. The ballroom has been under construction since October, but it's facing that lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation seeking to block it.
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Speaker 3: So, yes, this is now another attempt by the White.
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Speaker 1: House, or at least by the Trump administration to get that ballroom, going forward without any legal roadbumps.
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Speaker 2: And then shooting by the way over the weekend at twenty one year old was killed. Someone that was known to law enforcement, they actually had a mental health history, but walked up to a security checkpoint, pulled out a gun, started firing. A secret service engaged killed that person. One bystander was hit. They' stot trying to figure out caught in the crossfire or if that assailant actually shot that person. But again Robes once again talking about guns and gunfire near President Trump.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's certainly scary him.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of President Trump, Well, he is a doctor's visit today. Can't wait for the superlatives that will be released by the President. Avent how well his test went. But this will be his third medical exam. It's gonna be in just thirteen months.
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Speaker 2: Look, this is not something he wants any focus on. But this man is going to be eighty years old next month, and he has a tougher schedule than anybody that we know. And rodes the bruises on the hand, it was a rash on the neck. There were the swollen ankles. There's the sleep, falling asleep at meetings, all of this. Now, there are plenty of questions about his health, his mental health. Even so, yes, there's always of great interest. And here he is again. This is the third one in thirteen months that he has gone. He had a physical, then he went back for a follow up and be like, where's it going so much so it's it's always of interest.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and so we will be anxiously awaiting that report from Walter Reed, which will be that actual exam will be taking place later this morning.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Tuesday morning run when we come back. An absolute legend, a pioneer, and most of the headlines use this word colossus. Yes, a giant in music has passed away. Also coming up, speaking of music, a big night last night at the American Music Awards, and a group has been out of commission for four years, but just months after they come back, they win the biggest award at the American Music Awards. We will explain, and folks are absolutely losing it here in New York. All right, both, let's continue on this Tuesday morning ron with one of the most influential and important musicians ever. He has passed away at the age of ninety five. We're talking about Sonny Rollins and Robes. People use all kinds of superlatives and whatnot. You can't get any any bigger than the superlatives of you using about this guy. He was just the man in an era of jazz music and he continued Dud had sixty albums to his credits.
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Speaker 1: Colossus, genius. Yes, those are the terms being used. And just we've had some local news up this morning and just hearing his music, it's ah it. You understand why the superlatives follow this man. He played the tenor saxophone and he came up in the era of bebop jazz right and it's considered one of the greatest improvisers in jazz history.
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Speaker 3: It is remarkable just to see him. Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: Yes, President Obama awarded him the National Medal of the Arts in twenty ten. He was a Kennedy Center honoree in twenty eleven. And it's just sad that he has passed. But my goodness, to live to ninety five and to leave behind such a music legacy, we're in awe and I it was.
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Speaker 2: Something cool to hear that he passed away at ninety five. At his home in Woodstock, New York. That was something about that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
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Speaker 2: He's kind of cool. But he was not. You know, I love that he just ad LIBBD. He said he could learn more by being in front of an audience and practicing essentially then being at home practicing for three months. He said, just you feel the d the energy. You would much prefer to always do that. He was never afraid just to win. He'say, never played a song the same way you got in front of the crowd. Play it how I want to.
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Speaker 3: That is that is? That is true? I love say all right, next up on the Run.
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Speaker 1: Yes, BTS is back, and it back in a huge way.
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Speaker 3: He won the Top.
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Speaker 1: They won the Top Award at the American Music Awards last night in Vegas.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is remarkable. They've been gone for four.
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Speaker 1: Years military service, uh mandatory military service, but they won Artist of the Year, Best Male KP Pop Artist, and Song of the Summer.
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Speaker 2: This is always a fun win. And we saw Queen Latifa was hosting this one. She is a genuine Benjamin Button situation. Okay.
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Speaker 3: We looked up to and I said, how does she look?
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Speaker 1: I said, how does she look the same unbelievable for the last two decades. And you said, I'd say even better, and you're right. Queen's remarkable. She Queen works, She is unbelievable. Yeah, she host it last night.
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Speaker 2: But the album of the Year, the other big one last night went to Sabrina Carpenter. That was her first last night. She won her first American Music Award. Song of the Year. They did Gangbusters, Golden won several things. My favorite, it won several things last night.
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Speaker 1: You can't be unhappy listening to that song. Whatever mood you're in, that song comes on, it just lifts you up.
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Speaker 3: I love it, you know.
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Speaker 2: Don't want to compare it to what's the Justin Timberlake one from the movie When You Dance, Dance, Dance Danced. It has one of those vibes to it. You still put that song on and I get happy listening to it. The best male pop art is Justin bieber The best female pop artists of Brinna Carpet are plenty more out there, but always a big night in music. But congrats to BTS. They put on a big was a massive show, if you will. Their appearance last night.
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Speaker 1: I still remember the first time they came to the good Good Morning America.
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Speaker 3: We were like, who what?
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Speaker 1: And then we saw the thousands of fans that flooded Times Square just to get a glimpse of them.
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Speaker 3: We realized, whoa.
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Speaker 2: It was twenty seventeen for me, red carpet with Monica escab over. She didn't even realize We're staying on in red carpet interviewing all these celebrities and she sees from a distance a group of young men and girls are running to them and crying.
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Speaker 3: We were like, what the It's like the Beatles all over it.
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Speaker 2: It was twenty seventeen. Nobody knew who these guys were. They were so happy to have an American broadcaster interested in them at the time, and only one of them could speak good enough English to do the interview. I love those guys. I fell in love with those They were kids and not that big of a deal here yet.
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Speaker 3: And nine years later and they can.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they are unbelievable. So congrats to them. Looking forward, it's cool to it right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was gonna say it shows that you can take like they could take a four year hiatus and still have staying power. That's that speaks volumes, all right, and for the final leg of our run. Man, what a what a night here in New York. Lots of folks celebrating. Spike Lee is going to the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 2: That's what the NBA wants. Yes, Adam Silva wants to see Spike Lee in those orange glasses and whatever silly hat with buttons on it. We need Spike Lee at the NBA Finals, and we're gonna get it.
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Speaker 3: For the first challome. Don't forget about Timothy Shallow.
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Speaker 1: He's been on this.
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Speaker 2: Don't don't don't muddy the waters here. He's new to this game. Okay, this we're trying to do a shallowme list Knicks game story right now. But the Knicks are going to the finals for the first time since nineteen ninety nine. And this is really this. This franchise has struggled for a long time and languished in a spot it shouldn't be in this say, storied franchise, and they are where they should be. Just I think the NBA is better when some teams are good. The Lakers, the Celtics, the Knicks. It's cool to have them back in the.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very cool.
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Speaker 1: And yes they swept by the way the Cleveland Cavaliers last night will be in the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 3: I mean it was You weren't even really that intoup watching it, because you're like, yeah at all.
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Speaker 2: We were on the Uber back from the airport and I saw the score.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So now we await I say we they await the winner of the Spurs Thunder series, which right now is tied to and two.
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Speaker 3: But June third, the final start.
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Speaker 1: This should be exciting here in New York's gonna be this.
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Speaker 2: Is gonna be great. The first time is ninety nine. They were in the finals with Patrick Ewing and that was the year after Michael Jordan decided to retire. Wow in ninety eight, after he won his second three peat, he bounces from the league and all of a sudden, other people have a chance.
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Speaker 3: This is exciting.
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Speaker 1: We got to get out and watch some of these games out out with.
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Speaker 2: With the people with fun.
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Speaker 3: It's fun.
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Speaker 2: We won't be able to get courts eye at this time.
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Speaker 3: Now I don't.
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Speaker 1: We've gotten it twice and it is such a treat, mostly for the people watching.
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Speaker 3: For me, and yes, the game is fun too, Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: Right, folks, before we let you go on this Tuesday, leave you with our quote of the day, and it is you have to do the work, whether you're recognized or not. The real deal is doing it the best you can and that's it. That's its own reward that comes to you from mister Sonny Rawlins. That's how he spoke about his art and what he did. He just loved it. He just loved to practice, he loved to play, he loved getting better. And it's always it's cool to think, robes are are you doing the best we can do with something even if we don't get any recognition for it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's where you know, if that is your true passion, that's where you put your heart, your hard work, your pride, all of that into it.
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Speaker 3: And it can't be about the outcome. It has to be about the process.
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Speaker 2: So with that today, folks, take it with you from the legend Sonny Rollins just passed at the age of ninety five. His quote, you have to do the work, whether you're recognized or not. The real deal is doing it the best you can do it, and that's it. That's its own reward. And with that, we appreciate you running with us somen tj
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Speaker 3: Holk and I'm Amy Roboch will run with you tomorrow
Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Good morning everyone. It is Tuesday, May twenty sixth, back to work day for most of us. Hey there, I'm Amy Robot.
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Speaker 2: I mean back to stop.
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Speaker 3: I know, but a lot of people are going back to work. I was trying to just commiserate. Be among the people, be among the people.
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Speaker 2: Cantinette, I'm jazz kidding. Hello everybody. TJ Holmes here, Yes, we have made it. Yeah, back to work, but back to New York work. We have had a good weekend out in Napa. That sounds really fancy, I guess some. But this was a very cool event out there. If you ever get a chance to bottle rock. It's a music festival. They call it the Coachella of Napa Valley.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and it was. It was really you know what it was.
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Speaker 1: I've never been to a music festival, I'll be honest. I've only heard about it from my daughters. This one seemed very civilized compared to some of the stories I've heard of Coachella and gov Ball here New York.
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Speaker 3: So yes, it was wonderful.
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Speaker 2: And some of those artists we saw on those stages, including Backstreet Boys, including somber. We literally we saw them one night. The very next night, they were at the American Music Awards in Las Vegas. We'll be talking about that this morning and what was a big night. I'm gonna be making several stops this morning, including yes, Vegas with the AMAS took place, but we'll also be making a stop at the most famous arena in the world, also making a stop in Iran and DC in la as well as in the Democratic Republic of Congo. But let's start robes with a ceasefire in which firing seems to still be going on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of those shaky ceasefire continues scenarios. And that is exactly what is going on overseas right now, the US launching new self defense strikes on Iran.
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Speaker 3: At least that's what military officials are calling it.
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Speaker 1: They say the strikes occurred to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.
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Speaker 3: Here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: We sank two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Court ships that they say that the United States says was attempting to lay minds in the Strait of Horne moves.
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Speaker 3: They fire back, We fire back. So yes, it's some tit for tat going on right now?
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Speaker 2: Tit for tat, Yes with that, but also what's happening with negotiations? Apparently they are still taking place. A number of contradictory social media post from President Trump about where talks stood between the US did happen over the weekend, and one of them he said it was largely negotiated, and then another one he said, most of it hasn't been negotiating. Nobody knows what's in it, and so we don't know exactly know where we are. But the Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that peace talks were ongoing, and cutter saying that President Trump is committed to either making a good deal or no deal in all rooms.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, so they are working right now. Rubio says on specific language, to reopen the strait of horror moves and to end the fighting, but he said that could take days and again insisted that that shaky cease fire is still in place despite these new hostilities.
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Speaker 2: I want to continue on the run here on this Tuesday morning with an update on the Ebola outbreak and a robes are still using this phrase. They are playing catch up in this outbreak, which is now claimed more than two hundred and twenty lives.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and the number of presumed cases has now shot up to more than nine hundred. The current outbreak being caused by a type of a bola that has no vaccine, no known treatments, and has around a fifty percent death rate. So this is still a very concerning situation. They say there is high risk to folks there in that area, but low risk to those of us here globally.
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Speaker 2: I go from that outbreak as we continue outbreak, and as we continue on this run to the other outbreak that was making headlines every day, the hunt of virus outbreak, where there's a new case, a new confirmed hunt of virus case connected to the outbreak aboard that cruise ship.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Spain is now reporting someone who was evacuated from that ship has just now tested positive. That person had already been identified as a close contact and had been monitored. But yes, this is a reminder that forty two incubation period we're seeing.
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Speaker 3: It play out.
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Speaker 1: It's just remarkable that this particular hauntavirus takes and can take this long to actually present itself.
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Speaker 3: And so yes, eighteen or so Americans remain in quarantine.
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Speaker 1: Interestingly, they all decided to stay put at that Nebraska facility where immediate help would be available should they test polus.
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Speaker 2: And this is why, this is exactly why you stay in quarantine. This person was already monitored. Had they not been, they could have been out shopping. They could have been a convenience store, they could have been somewhere publicly coughing on a subway for all we know. And this is why. But yeah, that forty two days, this is why they have to do.
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Speaker 3: It, yes, all right?
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Speaker 1: Next up on the run, Pope Leo is calling for artificial intelligence to be disarmed. On Monday, the Pope released a much anticipated papal doctrine, the first of his papacy, by the way, and he chose to focus on AI. He urged governments, businesses, and individuals to slow down the pace of technological development.
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Speaker 2: I thought this was so interesting and telling and important that he chose his first one and to focus on AI. And he's warning that of artificial intelligence spreads misinformation, that more should be done to protect the rights of workers and keep children safe from this technology. He also addressed the number of wars currently in the world, saying that humanity is slipping into a violent culture of power.
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Speaker 1: That is well, we're seeing it play out right now. And he also acknowledged that the Catholic Church did not forcefully condemn slavery until the nineteenth century, and so he took this doctrine to make a personal apology, writing, this constitutes a wound in Christian memory, and for this, in the name of the Church, I sincerely ask for pardon.
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Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to continue on this run. Now. We've had this southern California where disaster averted according to authorities there who now say that chemical tank is no longer at threat of catastrophic explosion. Evacuation orders are being lifted after fifty thousand people were forced to flee their homes as emergency crews worked over the weekend to relieve the pressure on that tank, which started to overheat last week and was a threat of over heating.
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Speaker 1: The good news, fire officials say, yes, they have eliminated that threat now they've been spraying water on it to cool it down, and over the weekend a crack was discovered in the tank, but that actually helped relieve some of the pressure, so that was actually a good sign and so between those two things, the crisis has been averted. This is in the area of Garden Grove. It's about forty miles south of LA The GNK Aerospace Transparency Systems owns this tank and this chemical. It's used to make plastic parts. We're talking about seven thousand gallons of chemicals that could have potentially been released or could have exploded in the area. But my goodness, fifty thousand people. That is a significant number of folks who had to flee that. It was all over the news in California.
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Speaker 3: While we were there over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: I probably wait and stay on my friends couch a few more days. I might too until I stopped seeing steam on that tank on TV. No matter what they're saying here, we going to continue on the run here. Now the ballroom, they're still pushing for the ballroom at the White House and roads. They continue to use security as a main reason for why they need it. Yes, the shooting near the White House over the weekend has sparked this new push for President Trump's ballroom. It is fascinating robes how they are able to connect now this ballroom, which is meant to host parties. They're connecting it to the directly to the President's safety.
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Speaker 1: They're actually making it sound like this could be a bomb shelter for the president, the way Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche put it in this new language filing something a new filing for the courts because as they talked about this incident, which left a bystander wounded.
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Speaker 3: But Blanche said it underscores the.
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Speaker 1: Critical need for top level, state of the art security at the White House, including the ballroom, writing in this filing that the weekend shooting amounted to a second attempted assassination on President Trump within a single month, referencing once again the White House correspondent sinnership.
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Speaker 2: Such was the date of that, now, right, they were supposed to do that thing again in thirty days. It's been thirty days, didn't that?
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Speaker 1: Oh right, we're coming up on it. It was at the beginning of May, I believe. So we're coming up on that now. The ballroom has been under construction since October, but it's facing that lawsuit from the National Trust for Historic Preservation seeking to block it.
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Speaker 3: So, yes, this is now another attempt by the White.
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Speaker 1: House, or at least by the Trump administration to get that ballroom, going forward without any legal roadbumps.
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Speaker 2: And then shooting by the way over the weekend at twenty one year old was killed. Someone that was known to law enforcement, they actually had a mental health history, but walked up to a security checkpoint, pulled out a gun, started firing. A secret service engaged killed that person. One bystander was hit. They' stot trying to figure out caught in the crossfire or if that assailant actually shot that person. But again Robes once again talking about guns and gunfire near President Trump.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's certainly scary him.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of President Trump, Well, he is a doctor's visit today. Can't wait for the superlatives that will be released by the President. Avent how well his test went. But this will be his third medical exam. It's gonna be in just thirteen months.
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Speaker 2: Look, this is not something he wants any focus on. But this man is going to be eighty years old next month, and he has a tougher schedule than anybody that we know. And rodes the bruises on the hand, it was a rash on the neck. There were the swollen ankles. There's the sleep, falling asleep at meetings, all of this. Now, there are plenty of questions about his health, his mental health. Even so, yes, there's always of great interest. And here he is again. This is the third one in thirteen months that he has gone. He had a physical, then he went back for a follow up and be like, where's it going so much so it's it's always of interest.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and so we will be anxiously awaiting that report from Walter Reed, which will be that actual exam will be taking place later this morning.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'll stay with us here on this Tuesday morning run when we come back. An absolute legend, a pioneer, and most of the headlines use this word colossus. Yes, a giant in music has passed away. Also coming up, speaking of music, a big night last night at the American Music Awards, and a group has been out of commission for four years, but just months after they come back, they win the biggest award at the American Music Awards. We will explain, and folks are absolutely losing it here in New York. All right, both, let's continue on this Tuesday morning ron with one of the most influential and important musicians ever. He has passed away at the age of ninety five. We're talking about Sonny Rollins and Robes. People use all kinds of superlatives and whatnot. You can't get any any bigger than the superlatives of you using about this guy. He was just the man in an era of jazz music and he continued Dud had sixty albums to his credits.
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Speaker 1: Colossus, genius. Yes, those are the terms being used. And just we've had some local news up this morning and just hearing his music, it's ah it. You understand why the superlatives follow this man. He played the tenor saxophone and he came up in the era of bebop jazz right and it's considered one of the greatest improvisers in jazz history.
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Speaker 3: It is remarkable just to see him. Oh my god.
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Speaker 1: Yes, President Obama awarded him the National Medal of the Arts in twenty ten. He was a Kennedy Center honoree in twenty eleven. And it's just sad that he has passed. But my goodness, to live to ninety five and to leave behind such a music legacy, we're in awe and I it was.
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Speaker 2: Something cool to hear that he passed away at ninety five. At his home in Woodstock, New York. That was something about that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's cool.
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Speaker 2: He's kind of cool. But he was not. You know, I love that he just ad LIBBD. He said he could learn more by being in front of an audience and practicing essentially then being at home practicing for three months. He said, just you feel the d the energy. You would much prefer to always do that. He was never afraid just to win. He'say, never played a song the same way you got in front of the crowd. Play it how I want to.
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Speaker 3: That is that is? That is true? I love say all right, next up on the Run.
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Speaker 1: Yes, BTS is back, and it back in a huge way.
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Speaker 3: He won the Top.
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Speaker 1: They won the Top Award at the American Music Awards last night in Vegas.
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is remarkable. They've been gone for four.
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Speaker 1: Years military service, uh mandatory military service, but they won Artist of the Year, Best Male KP Pop Artist, and Song of the Summer.
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Speaker 2: This is always a fun win. And we saw Queen Latifa was hosting this one. She is a genuine Benjamin Button situation. Okay.
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Speaker 3: We looked up to and I said, how does she look?
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Speaker 1: I said, how does she look the same unbelievable for the last two decades. And you said, I'd say even better, and you're right. Queen's remarkable. She Queen works, She is unbelievable. Yeah, she host it last night.
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Speaker 2: But the album of the Year, the other big one last night went to Sabrina Carpenter. That was her first last night. She won her first American Music Award. Song of the Year. They did Gangbusters, Golden won several things. My favorite, it won several things last night.
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Speaker 1: You can't be unhappy listening to that song. Whatever mood you're in, that song comes on, it just lifts you up.
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Speaker 3: I love it, you know.
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Speaker 2: Don't want to compare it to what's the Justin Timberlake one from the movie When You Dance, Dance, Dance Danced. It has one of those vibes to it. You still put that song on and I get happy listening to it. The best male pop art is Justin bieber The best female pop artists of Brinna Carpet are plenty more out there, but always a big night in music. But congrats to BTS. They put on a big was a massive show, if you will. Their appearance last night.
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Speaker 1: I still remember the first time they came to the good Good Morning America.
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Speaker 3: We were like, who what?
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Speaker 1: And then we saw the thousands of fans that flooded Times Square just to get a glimpse of them.
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Speaker 3: We realized, whoa.
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Speaker 2: It was twenty seventeen for me, red carpet with Monica escab over. She didn't even realize We're staying on in red carpet interviewing all these celebrities and she sees from a distance a group of young men and girls are running to them and crying.
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Speaker 3: We were like, what the It's like the Beatles all over it.
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Speaker 2: It was twenty seventeen. Nobody knew who these guys were. They were so happy to have an American broadcaster interested in them at the time, and only one of them could speak good enough English to do the interview. I love those guys. I fell in love with those They were kids and not that big of a deal here yet.
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Speaker 3: And nine years later and they can.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they are unbelievable. So congrats to them. Looking forward, it's cool to it right now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was gonna say it shows that you can take like they could take a four year hiatus and still have staying power. That's that speaks volumes, all right, and for the final leg of our run. Man, what a what a night here in New York. Lots of folks celebrating. Spike Lee is going to the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 2: That's what the NBA wants. Yes, Adam Silva wants to see Spike Lee in those orange glasses and whatever silly hat with buttons on it. We need Spike Lee at the NBA Finals, and we're gonna get it.
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Speaker 3: For the first challome. Don't forget about Timothy Shallow.
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Speaker 1: He's been on this.
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Speaker 2: Don't don't don't muddy the waters here. He's new to this game. Okay, this we're trying to do a shallowme list Knicks game story right now. But the Knicks are going to the finals for the first time since nineteen ninety nine. And this is really this. This franchise has struggled for a long time and languished in a spot it shouldn't be in this say, storied franchise, and they are where they should be. Just I think the NBA is better when some teams are good. The Lakers, the Celtics, the Knicks. It's cool to have them back in the.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's very cool.
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Speaker 1: And yes they swept by the way the Cleveland Cavaliers last night will be in the NBA Finals.
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Speaker 3: I mean it was You weren't even really that intoup watching it, because you're like, yeah at all.
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Speaker 2: We were on the Uber back from the airport and I saw the score.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So now we await I say we they await the winner of the Spurs Thunder series, which right now is tied to and two.
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Speaker 3: But June third, the final start.
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Speaker 1: This should be exciting here in New York's gonna be this.
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Speaker 2: Is gonna be great. The first time is ninety nine. They were in the finals with Patrick Ewing and that was the year after Michael Jordan decided to retire. Wow in ninety eight, after he won his second three peat, he bounces from the league and all of a sudden, other people have a chance.
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Speaker 3: This is exciting.
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Speaker 1: We got to get out and watch some of these games out out with.
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Speaker 2: With the people with fun.
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Speaker 3: It's fun.
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Speaker 2: We won't be able to get courts eye at this time.
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Speaker 3: Now I don't.
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Speaker 1: We've gotten it twice and it is such a treat, mostly for the people watching.
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Speaker 3: For me, and yes, the game is fun too, Oh my god.
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Speaker 2: Right, folks, before we let you go on this Tuesday, leave you with our quote of the day, and it is you have to do the work, whether you're recognized or not. The real deal is doing it the best you can and that's it. That's its own reward that comes to you from mister Sonny Rawlins. That's how he spoke about his art and what he did. He just loved it. He just loved to practice, he loved to play, he loved getting better. And it's always it's cool to think, robes are are you doing the best we can do with something even if we don't get any recognition for it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's where you know, if that is your true passion, that's where you put your heart, your hard work, your pride, all of that into it.
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Speaker 3: And it can't be about the outcome. It has to be about the process.
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Speaker 2: So with that today, folks, take it with you from the legend Sonny Rollins just passed at the age of ninety five. His quote, you have to do the work, whether you're recognized or not. The real deal is doing it the best you can do it, and that's it. That's its own reward. And with that, we appreciate you running with us somen tj
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Speaker 3: Holk and I'm Amy Roboch will run with you tomorrow