(TUESDAY) Morning Run: Deadly FL Alligator Attack, Missing Congressman, Drone v JetBlue, NFL Star Released Twice, More US-Iran Confusion, Best WC Day Yet & More

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Speaker 1: Morning Run with Amy and TJ and iHeartRadio Podcast. Hey there, everybody, it is Tuesday, June thirtieth. Welcome to your Morning Run. I'm Amy Robots and.

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Speaker 2: I'm JJ Holmes. Are we Is it okay to say you're not having the best morning? Are we supposed to just be able to go with it no matter what nobody cares?

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Speaker 1: I think you should acknowledge it, accept it, yeah, and then just be at peace with it. That's but yes, it's okay to acknowledge it sometimes that helps getting it out.

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Speaker 2: Man. It was a gotta. We gotta figure out these Love Island nights and these World Cup nights.

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Speaker 1: It's tough.

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Speaker 2: This is rough than the NBA Finals for me right now because they are the very early mornings and long nights, and when you got games that go into penalty kicks roads. I ain't going to bed. That's just where I am now. I could go to sleep on Love Island because I could catch it.

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Speaker 1: The man, how late did you stay up plus night?

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Speaker 2: We heard the game last night with the penalty kicks.

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Speaker 1: And so what time was that?

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Speaker 2: I don't know? Recently, Oh my.

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Speaker 1: God, I realized I fell asleep two minutes after I went into beday.

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Speaker 2: It was at ten o'clock last night it started. Yeah, Netherlands Morocco went to penalty kicks last night.

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe. Literally, just now is the first time I'm hearing this. I thought you and I both went to bed. I know the game was on, but I was like, yeah, we obviously were exhausted. I fell asleep at ten oh six.

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Speaker 2: This is funny, folks, this is going. This is the longest conversation Robot and I have had as we woke up to see. Haven't even actually we haven't talked. I think we said hi, you came and gave a hook, said I love you.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm learning so much right now.

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Speaker 2: So I love you too. Let me say that first of all. But yeah, it's a night. But it's all fun. It's all great stuff. Yes, Love Island and World Cup. Keep us going. I wanted to. I was gonna put a story in here about the heat wave that we have coming up this week, and I'm not. And I'm just gonna put this in the headline from the USA today, dangerous wreck, smashing heat wave to scorch millions. There you go, ouch, leave it there. That's what's happening. That's what's coming two thirds of the country. Rope. It's gonna be a it's gonna be a ton it's gonna be a dangerous week. Well, you know what.

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Speaker 1: And to that point, look, we have an air conditioner out in Sabine's room. You went around the city last night on top of everything with work and obviously game appointment television, and you could not find a fan or an air conditioner to bring back to Sabine's room. So she's having to sleep in like on a couch right now where there's a c Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It's uh, it's it was a rough day, but that's all right. We had all good stuff yesterday for the most part. Hey, every day is a blessing, is it not. I also I want to mention have you all seen seen the Golden Eagle at the White House?

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Speaker 1: Oh? I was gonna put you know, it's funny. It was gorgeous. I was gonna point it out to you, and I knew you weren't in a great mood, so I thought, you know were I'll just say.

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Speaker 2: Was gorgeous. Something was that was gaudy?

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Speaker 1: Oh I just saw a close up picture of it. Yeah, Oh, I didn't see like the.

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Speaker 2: Fold, there's a hole. There's the President posted what appears to be this AI generated image of an eagle. There's Golden the Eagle on the Truman balcony there, and people don't know what he's talking about. He said, this is a two hundred and fiftieth birthday gift. We don't know what's going on, where it came from, and what he's doing with it.

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Speaker 1: Well, if he hangs it up, he just needs to have some putty ready when he takes it off. Someone wants to fill in the hole and take.

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Speaker 2: That thing off, and then we gotta put a tarpaup to cover true that. We had to cover that take that down. All right, Well, folks, we got a bunch of stops to make on this Tuesday morning. Ron were making the stop in South Carolina, in DC and Orlando, Doha, Guadaloupe, Houston, Boston, and we'll also make a stop specifically at JFK Airport. But let's start robes with the very latest on the peace talks between the US and Iran.

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Speaker 1: Every day a different story, but it's kind of the same story. So the US and Iran once again scheduled to have peace talk nicoiations in Doha today according to President Trump, No, we're not according to Iran. Yeah, that's right. There are conflicting reports from the highest levels. After President Trump made the big announcement that Iranian officials wanted.

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Speaker 2: To meet, he was short and sweet in the announcement. He put this on his truth social quote, Iran has requested a meeting. It will take place tomorrow in Doha, and he had an exclamation point next to it. Ro But then Irani officials soon after came out and said there are no talks. We ain't talking to nobody. Is nothing scheduled at all with the US. But Robes they did say, we already had people in Doha, but they're there to have talks about getting our money released with other officials, and I had nothing to do with the US. So there you go, folks, That is your very latest.

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Speaker 1: All right, Next stuff on the run. Several highly anticipated decisions for the Supreme Court yesterday, and there was a big win and a couple of losses for the president. First, the court handed him a major win in a case that expands a president's power to fire the head of federal agency.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but at the same time they made a ruling in favor of the independence of the Federal Reserve. They refuse to allow the president to immediately fire Lisa Cook. I think he's been trying to fire her forever. Yes at this point, yes, she's one of the governors on the Federal Reserve Board. But the President also took a major l in the mail in ballot case. The court upheld a Mississippi law that allows mail in ballots to be counted after election day as long as they're postmarked by election day.

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Speaker 1: And also of note, the court refused to hear Trump's appeal of the eging Carol's sexual abuse judgment. Again him, he was very upset about that. Wrote all about it on truth Social if you'd like to get his version, or at least his reaction to the Supreme Court's decision. But next up on the run, here's a big story out of DC today. We'll have much more on this later on the feeds, so you have to wait for it. But yes, the missing congressman from New Jersey says he is headed back to work today.

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Speaker 2: Look at this point, I'll believe it when I see it, But he has had at one hundred and sixteen day absence from Congress talking about Tom Kane Junior. He is going back to Capitol Hill, not just that he's expected to give a speech explaining why he disappeared. I would love to hear this real.

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Speaker 1: Oh I cannot wait. So if just so you know, it's not like he's just any congressman. He's running for reelection. Yes, and yet the fifty seven year old has missed one hundred votes, hasn't been seen in public since March fifth, and has refused to get specific about a mysterious medical condition he says is to blame.

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Speaker 2: That's unclear where Caan has been all this time. His science has led to all kinds of wild theories about where he's been, what he's doing, and some of them are get silly, some of them kind of serious, some of them kind of stupid, and some of them kind of mean. But he's scheduled for a two o'clock conference call with Republican leaders. What time I don't know. I didn't see the time on the speech, so we don't have a.

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Speaker 1: Time on the speech. This is actually we all just came in from a CNN reporter who was stalking him at his home basically yesterday and sent out a basically a spokesperson who said, yeah, he's giving a speech tomorrow on the hospital. So it's the first we heard about it. It was late yesterday, all right. Next up on the run. As if you didn't have enough to worry about with air travel, now a pilot is reporting that a drone struck his aircraft. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: This happened yesterday as the Jet Blue flight was approaching JFK Airport in New York. It was approximately three thousand feet but they were on final approach. The FAA is looking into this. I don't think they found anything significant of damage on the plane itself, but they're looking into it. The plane landed safely, they say the passengers got off as normal. But rope, we don't have to remind you this is a very very dangerous and illegal thing to do to operate a drone at an airport.

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Speaker 1: Oh. Yes, I was listening to the back and forth between the tower and the pilot, and when the pilot said we have collided with the drone, there was like, I'm sorry, did you say collided? So there was that's obviously a very concerning word when you're listening air traffic control.

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Speaker 2: To a pilotas because of so many recent incidents with airplanes. We have listened to more air traffic control chatter than we'd ever have in our lives. Probably it's fascinating and terrified.

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Speaker 1: I was going to say, it's more than I want to know, so less is more for me on that one, all right. Next up on the run, Alex Murdof was back in court yesterday for the first time since his double murder conviction was overturned. And yes, he entered court in an orange jumpsuit and shackles for the brief yet interesting hearing.

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Speaker 2: It was interesting and what we got out of it. The big deal is that we have a date for the retrial. The judge is trying to go for April fifth of next year. That is a tentative date, but they do believe they're going to try to stick to that. The judge is very adamant Rose. What is it She's thrown in easter like that's part of the.

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Speaker 1: Planet and break And she just said, when I say a trial date is this, I don't change.

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Speaker 2: I mean.

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Speaker 1: She was pretty much saying like when I say something, I mean it.

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Speaker 2: So order I was convicted. You'll remember twenty twenty three for the shooting deaths of his wife and adult son, but the South Carolina Supreme Court threw out that conviction last month, saying there was influenced by the court clerk who was dropping little whispering in the ears of the jurors about his guilt and how he looks and whatnot. So we having to do this all over again.

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Speaker 1: Oooh all right. Next up on the run, Tarrian Arnold was released from jail and then released from his NFL team. It all happened in a matter of hours yesterday.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but now former Detroit lyon and cornerback was arrested in Florida. Faces multiple felony charges, including kidnapping and robbery. There some scheme. They say it's seven people altogether as defendants co defendants rose, but they say someone stole something from Terryan Arnold. He collected a gang of folks to go get the perpetrators and get the stuff back.

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Speaker 1: So this was some no one likes to call police.

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Speaker 2: No I can take care of this. No you obviously you should not take care of it. But yeah, he posted dollard bomb. He's a really young player, twenty three years old. I think it's coming out of his third year What a shame.

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Speaker 1: It's just a shame, all right. Next up on the Run, What a tragedy. A thirty one year old Florida woman died after being attacked by an alligator during a hike near Orlando. It all happened in front of her boyfriend and best friend as they were kneeling in three foot deep water to cool off during their hike.

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Speaker 2: These are awful details. As you describe that. Everybody can to yourself. You're taking a hike, you just stop, buy some water, and then something jumps out of the water, like this is stuff we've seen in movies. Quite frankly, But the alligator attacked as they were cooling off in that water, bit off one of her arms, nearly bit off the other. Boyfriend frantically called nine to one one. She died though before emergency cruise could get her to the hospital.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and some news outlets are actually reporting the transcript of that nine to one one call. Babe, I felt sick to my stomach listening to it. It's too awful to repeat. Just couldn't do it for this because I just I can't get it out of my head. But the sheriff depart trapped two alligators spotted near the scene of that attack. Get this, one was thirteen feet long and the other was twelve feet That's described as exceptionally large for alligators, and state labs are now testing the gators' DNA to determine which one attacked the.

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Speaker 2: Woman we were talking about. It was a crocodile yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So yes, and that's been mentioned because there was a fatal crocodile attack in Porto Iarta just two days earlier, and now you have this alligator attack. It's just unfortunate and coincidental.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, stay with us here on this Tuesday Morning run when we come back. What a day, Like I said it was at the World Cup. A couple of games ended in penalty kicks. We'll give you the very latest there and a bitter bitter sweet story coming out of the World Cup as well. Why one player scored his team's only goal yesterday and was on the ground in tears.

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Speaker 1: Dan, Welcome back to your Tuesday morning run. And next up on the run, we talked about lack of sleep, but before you had that late night game, there was the early evening game that was arguably, perhaps undoubtedly the best day of the World Cup just in terms of action and what we saw.

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Speaker 2: Huge upset. This was the biggest upset and this was the biggest day Rose. This is fun stuff when it comes to knockout stage and we don't have to worry about draws and points and all that. Robes win or go home, and Germany's going home and this is completely unexpected soccer powerhouse. Germany is out after an incredible game. This was fun to watch. But they lost the Paraguay penalty kicks. It took six kicks. They got up to six, but the back and forth they were behind in the penalty kicks and then they end up tying the thing up.

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Speaker 1: Robes.

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Speaker 2: This is I know you love penalty kicks. I don't like games ending like that, but it's the best you're gonna come.

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Speaker 1: We were screaming, like actually screaming at the TV. And earlier in the day, Oh yes, we talked about Brazil versus Japan. We watched that. The Japanese players and even the Japanese fans. I have never seen such heartbreak. It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: They had that game one at one point and then they were at least in a position not to lose it. They were in the fifth minute of stoppage time, the whistle was about to blow and Brazil scored it, and.

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Speaker 1: The Brazilian fans went crazy. The Japanese fans were abs I mean distraught. And then yes, the league game that followed, you complease because you saw this and clearly I did not. Morocco in the Netherlands penalty kicks as well.

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Speaker 2: The Netherlands is a powerhouse that is expected. They always expect to do well. This is one of their earliest exits they've ever had from the tournament. But yes, penalty kicks, same thing, back and forth. Morocco ends up winning it on the ladder. They went it three to two on penalty kicks. Just the tournament now has it was already a good time. It's just exploded and excitement now. So we had a long day today.

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Speaker 1: Who do we have today on Ivory Coast versus Norway, France versus Sweden, and Mexico versus Ecuador.

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Speaker 2: Watch any game that Mexico plays, their fans are.

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Speaker 1: That's the late one.

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Speaker 2: It's other level.

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Speaker 1: I will not be up for that one. You can tell me all about it tomorrow. But no, I already saw I was like cool Ivory Coast, Norway, France, Sweden. I'm in Mexico, Ecuador. I'll read about it tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: What if I just wake you up for the good parts?

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Speaker 1: Nope, because I cannot go back to sleep. Do not do that.

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Speaker 2: Wow that he got serious? Really I'm serious about Hey, we just talked about World Cup.

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Speaker 1: No, you're talking about my sleep the next day?

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Speaker 2: No? No, no, Well, I want to leave Robes on this note from that game Netherlands Morocco. Before that match against Morocco, one player for the Netherlands was already dealing with an incredible loss. His name is Cody Gapco. He announced before the game Robes that he and his partner had lost their unborn child during the pregnancy. Now I don't think the baby was due while he was playing, or maybe later into the tournament depending on how far they got. But he ended up scoring the other the only goal for the Netherlands in this game. Now, if you want a good cry, you know what if you just you know what I'm having. The morning is gloom me out. Let me just get this out and I can't figure out how to do it. This is what I encourage you to do. Go watch this guy score this goal. The entire bench runs into the field and just engulfs him. The entire every player runs off the bench and puts their arms around this guy. It is incredible. I encourage you take a minute just to watch it. Yes, his team ends up losing. Who gives a damn to be quite honest, but he scored the only he just so happened to Robes. Have you seen the video yet?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: I dare you. I dare you to watch it and not have tears coming out yet.

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Speaker 1: As TJ says that with tears.

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Speaker 2: But yes, but again we're hearing about guys being criticized for going back for the birth of the child and all these things.

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Speaker 1: And then that just puts it into full pursuse.

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Speaker 2: You know what these guys are dealing with a lot. He I'm sure he wanted to be there. It feels like crap that he wasn't. And then he ends up scoring. Oh the scene on them and they're wearing those bright what'd you call them electric uniforms? Yes, they all come out, every player onto the field. Oh, bro, everybody go watch it now if you can.

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Speaker 1: Go all right, Well, yes, that's so. That's the homework assignment At the end of morning run, but we'll also give you some food for thought for your quote of the day on this Tuesday. Peace begins when you stop negotiating with the present moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm gonna work this out.

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Speaker 1: I love the way that was put because that is what we're doing. We're hilariously negotiating with what is. That is a fool's errand and you will never feel peace. So peace begins when you stop negotiating with the present moment.

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Speaker 2: Babe.

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Speaker 1: I know you had like everything go wrong yesterday, almost comical, and maybe with a few days space, you will be able to look back and list what happened yesterday and you will laugh. But it's when you're trying to change what is. It's just awful.

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Speaker 2: When you hear that laugh, don't be relieved. You should be concerned because it comes out like I'm the joker, Like I'm just losing my mind like that yesterday.

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Speaker 1: At one point you were looking and you just started laughing, and I knew something was going terribly wrong. It was an evil laugh.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely yesterday.

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Speaker 1: That sounds like I'm just gonna like back, No, I need you.

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Speaker 2: To put your arms around me when I'm struggling like that.

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Speaker 1: Geez, peace begins everybody when you stop negotiating with the present moment. Thank you, as always for running with us. I'm Amy Robot.

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Speaker 2: And I'm DJ Holmes, your chief present moment negotiator. We'll talk soon.