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Recapping the 2026 iHeartFestival! · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Hi, and happy Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 1: We have recovered from our iHeartRadio music festival. I say
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  Speaker 1: it like it's laborious. It's really not. It's a big
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  Speaker 1: concert that just goes for hours and hours. Double-nighted, too. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: what a weekend. So many great performances. So many great artists.
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  Speaker 1: Everything from Benson Boone's Abs to Zara Larson's Lush Life Dance. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We experienced it all in real time. There's no right there.
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  Speaker 1: The pleasure of introducing BTS, but it didn't matter what
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  Speaker 1: I said because all of the screaming in the T-Mobile arena,
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  Speaker 1: they wanted them badly. They wanted them now. Here they are.
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  Speaker 1: They're great live. They're super choreographed and very good in person.
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  Speaker 1: There's your mystical magical. There's Benson on Saturday night. And,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, where do you want to begin, Sisini? Tanya,
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  Speaker 1: you want to start with how cold that T-Mobile arena was?
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  Speaker 1: Why was it so cold? So, I did, it was so,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, it was so cold inside the arena
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  Speaker 1: and also backstage in the areas where we were. I
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  Speaker 1: was told they just poured the ice for ice hockey.
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  Speaker 1: That was the rumor going around. Underneath the iHeart stage.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so they had to keep the ice cold. Even
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  Speaker 1: when all the bodies got in there, it did not
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  Speaker 1: warm up at all. No. I got a space heater. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I heard you put one in your dressing room. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's cute. I got a space heater and was curled
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  Speaker 1: up next to it backstage. No, Tonya, you had long
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  Speaker 1: sleeve leathers. I feel like you were warm.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was definitely warm.
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  Speaker 2: But I was in a short, sheer shirt, and it
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  Speaker 2: was freezing. I know.
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  Speaker 1: Every time I complained that it was cold to somebody,
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  Speaker 1: they were in a sheer shirt. Yeah, exactly. And I thought,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I shouldn't complain to sheer shirt people, sheer shirted people.
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  Speaker 1: You still have long sleeves. So Tanya, you got back
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  Speaker 1: to your room after the show and then you had
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  Speaker 1: to have Cicely help you get out of your dress.
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  Speaker 1: Is that what happened?
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  Speaker 3: I got up to my room and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I can't, it's one of those dresses where the zipper
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  Speaker 3: goes all the way from like my neck down to
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  Speaker 3: my butt. And I was like, I can't get it.
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  Speaker 1: Was it your husband there?
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  Speaker 3: He only came Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: He was not there.
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  Speaker 2: This was Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: You should have put that dress on the other night.
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  Speaker 3: So I was like, Oh my gosh, I need somebody
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  Speaker 3: to help me unzip it. So I had to go
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  Speaker 3: all the way down to the casino and, To meet
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  Speaker 3: Cisney so that she could unzip me.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, let's talk about that. What time was the unzipping
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  Speaker 1: in the casino appearance?
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  Speaker 3: Like 1.32?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Normal time. Is that when you ran into
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  Speaker 1: Ellen Kay? No, that was a different night. Ellen Kay
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  Speaker 1: celebrating her birthday. Happy birthday to Ellen Kay on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: That was the night of her birthday, but it was
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  Speaker 2: already like 1.30 in the morning. I think we have
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  Speaker 2: audio of that if you want to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: Audio of what? Okay, Ellen.
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  Speaker 3: Come to Marshmallow with us.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, I will go. Wait, where are we going? I'm
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  Speaker 1: dropping off my duffel. Where's Marshmallow?
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  Speaker 2: Um....
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  Speaker 1: Excess. Surrender.
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  Speaker 2: One of those clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Come to Marshmallow with us. You mean to see Marshmallow
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  Speaker 1: the performer?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And then she says, sure. Guaranteed she did not go.
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  Speaker 2: Well, our rooms were on the same floor. So I
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  Speaker 2: was going to have to drop off my duffel and
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  Speaker 2: we get all the way up. We're on the same floor.
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  Speaker 1: And then she went down her aisle. I know she
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  Speaker 1: pulls a me. She does the Houdini like me.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you there. No. Great time. If you went,
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  Speaker 1: let us know what your highlight was. What were your
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  Speaker 1: favorite performances over the weekend at our iHeartRadio Music Festival?
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  Speaker 1: You can reach out to us. Send us a talk back.
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