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Welcome everyone to this Saturday morning run.

It is Saturday, September 27th.

I'm Amy Roboc, alongside TJ Holmes, and this is our recovery run where we go over the ways in which we tried to recover from yet another

busy news week. It was really nonstop this week from Jimmy Kimmel getting back on the air

to another politically motivated shooting at that ice facility in Dallas. A government shutdown is looming next week. Have we had a break from

ominous news, it seems, in the last couple weeks? I was hoping this was going to be it,

but here you go off the top mention and all this crap we were trying to get away from.

So it put me, I was kind of upbeat because we're excited. Right now, we're sitting in Arkansas

and all this fun stuff is happening around us and you just took me back to a place I was trying

to get away from. So how do you want to do this now? Your sarcasm is noted. But I was laying it on

pretty thick. You were. It was very thick, very thick, like the bacon, the way you like it. But

it is something worth noting that I just feel like we need to acknowledge that

and even for those of us who have been in the news business for three decades and counting,

this has seemed particularly heavy, like week after week after week. Hoping this cycle

ends soon and we can all get a little lighter, but there are always, and we have been trying

to point them out throughout the week, silver linings, lessons to be learned, ways forward where

we can actually learn from some of these difficult times.

And I think that is the point sometimes of difficult times, is that we still have a lot to

learn.

And through all of that, we also still have to try to learn. And through all of that,

we also still have to try to find ways to unwind,

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