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Patriots Face Tough 2026 Schedule, Celtics Welcome Back Isaiah Thomas · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Monday, May 18th. You'll be interested
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  to know, 46 years ago, today, in 1980, scientists
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  began a focused scientific study of Mount St.
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  Helens, sending field teams to monitor steam
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  vents, seismic patterns, and evolving crater
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  activity. That coordinated research established
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  new monitoring methods and data collection standards
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  that advanced volcanic science and improved community
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  preparedness. So now you know. And now, it's
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  time for the weather report. This morning, it's
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  mostly sunny and it feels like 59 degrees with
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  4 mile per hour wind. The sunset will take place
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  at 8 .01. and it will rise again tomorrow at
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  516. It looks like we're in for a mostly sunny
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  day, with a high near 77, accompanied by a light
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  east freeze around 6 miles per hour. If you're
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  inland, it will hit a high of 78. Tonight, expect
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  partly cloudy skies, with a low around 62. and
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  a moderate south wind around 8 miles per hour
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  with a slight chance of rain, less than a tenth
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  of an inch possible. The nearshore buoy at Cape
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  Cod Bay reads 53 degrees for the water temperature.
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  Looking ahead in the weather. Tuesday will be
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  mostly sunny and warm with a high near 90 and
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  a southwest breeze of 7 to 13 miles per hour.
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  with a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms
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  late afternoon into early evening. Showers and
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  thunderstorms become likely Wednesday afternoon
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  into the evening with a high near 88 and northwest
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  winds gusting around 12 mph Wednesday night,
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  then much cooler Thursday with highs near 67
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  and fair conditions into Friday. This podcast
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  They are open every day from 8 to 5. So stop
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  on by and don't forget to tell them. Sunny mornings
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  send you. In local news, the New England Patriots'
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  2026 schedule was revealed on Thursday, featuring
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  a tough lineup after last season's surprising
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  run to Super Bowl 60. This year, the team will
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  play both in Germany and on the West Coast, facing
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  eight playoff teams from 2025. including Seattle
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  and Buffalo. With several primetime matchups,
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  fans can expect thrilling games this fall. One
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  highlight will be the season opener against the
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  Seahawks, a rematch of Super Bowl LX, where New
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  England aims to bounce back from a previous loss.
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  As the excitement builds, Boston fans are ready
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  for a memorable season ahead. Now on to sports.
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  Donovan Mitchell called advancing to the conference
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  finals for the first time in his extensive postseason
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  career a breath of fresh air after his Cleveland
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  Cavaliers dominated the top seed Detroit Pistons
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  125 -94 in Game 7 on Sunday night. The Cavs had
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  lost in the second round in each of the past
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  two seasons and had not made the conference finals
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  since 2018. Game one of the Eastern Conference
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  Finals begins Tuesday against the New York Knicks
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  at Madison Square Garden. The 31 -point victory
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  for Cleveland was the third largest of all time
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  by a road team in a Game 7. Mitchell noted they
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  would not be able to exhale for long, saying,
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  we can only breathe for about 12 hours. In local
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  sports, the Red Sox are in Kansas City tonight,
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  taking on the Royals at 740. Sonny Gray gets
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  the ball against Seth Lugo in a matchup Boston
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  needs badly. The Sox sit at 19 -27 after getting
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  embarrassed 8 -1 by Atlanta yesterday. Brian
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  Deo got shelled early, and the offense mustered
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  just one run. They're 2 -5 their last seven,
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  and the division race is slipping away fast.
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  Bray's been solid, but so has Lugo. so this is
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  a pitching duel on paper. Problem is, Boston's
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  not scoring. They gotta find runs in a hurry,
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  starting tonight in Kansas City. The good news?
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  There's hope brewing in the rotation beyond Gray.
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  Young lefties Connelly Early and Peyton Tall
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  are becoming a wicked 1 -2 punch. Early's 3 -2,
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  with a 3 .21 era and 45 strikeouts in 47 innings.
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  Tall's been even better, a 2 .05 ERA with a sub
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  .800 YIP. Against Atlanta's best offense in baseball,
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  they combined to allow just four runs over 13
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  innings. That's the kind of dominant front end
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  that wins in May and beyond, if the bats ever
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  wake up. Meanwhile, the Celtics brought back
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  a legend. Isaiah Thomas is joining the franchise
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  as a pro and college scout based in Seattle.
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  The former All -Star starred here from 2015 to
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  2017 before a hip injury derailed his career.
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  He's already working the combine in Chicago,
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  scouting for Brad Stevens' front office. It's
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  a homecoming for one of the best drafts Steele's
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  the organization's ever made. In top news. As
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  college costs climb and skepticism about higher
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  education grows, many Americans question whether
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  a bachelor's degree is still worth the price.
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  A new analysis of Texas public college students
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  shows that long -term, they generally earn far
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  more than those who never attended college, even
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  in liberal arts. On average, college entrants
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  out -earned high school graduates by almost $87
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  ,000 over that 15 -year period. even after accounting
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  for college costs. Engineering and architecture
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  majors enjoyed the highest returns, while liberal
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  arts majors outperformed their peers without
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  bachelor's degrees by about $35 ,000. The study
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  indicates that pursuing a bachelor's degree is
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  likely a wise investment. In business news, one
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  of the market's hottest stock themes is buying
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  everything artificial intelligence cannot replace.
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  As investors worry about the companies that artificial
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  intelligence will wipe out, they are rotating
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  into those that artificial intelligence will
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  have a harder time disrupting. The Halo trade,
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  as it is called, is working. Halo, which stands
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  for heavy assets, low obsolescence, was coined
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  by Josh Brown, co -founder and chief executive
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  officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management, in February.
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  Brown believes this trend is one of the most
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  important investment trends of the year. Goldman
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  Sachs and Morgan Stanley have incorporated Halo
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  into their investment research in 2026 as Halo
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  stocks perform well across the board. Some examples
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  include FedEx and ExxonMobil, both up close to
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  30 % since the beginning of the year, while Coca
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  -Cola has risen close to 17%. Halo companies
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  require meaningful hard physical assets to generate
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  revenue, and they're durable. The Roundhill Halo
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  Exchange Traded Fund launched on Thursday and
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  tracks an index screening the largest listed
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  United States companies focused on physical assets
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  and infrastructure artificial intelligence cannot
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  replace. Brown stated on CNDC's Halftime Report.
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  that there is nothing you could type into a large
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  language model that would negatively affect these
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  companies. He mentioned that some of the top
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  holdings in the fund include Cummins, AutoZone,
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  TFI International, CSX, GP Hunt, and Lenox. Roundhill
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  recently had significant success with its memory
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  exchange traded fund, which hit $9 .8 billion
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  in assets in 43 days, the fastest ever for an
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  exchange traded fund. Brown emphasized that their
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  new exchange -traded fund is not a bet against
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  artificial intelligence, but a way to remain
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  invested in a changing world. In crypto movement,
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  Bitcoin is down 5 % over the weekend to about
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  $77 ,000. Ethereum is down 7 % to just over $2
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  ,000. And XRP is down 7 % to $1 .38. Moving on
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  to a more local vibe. In our community spotlight
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  on health and wellness, we are working with a
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  national Pilates studio to bring you some free
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  classes, so listen up. Check out Club Pilates
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  with several locations in the Boston area. Pilates
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  presents a comprehensive wellness approach, cultivating
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  strength, reducing tension, and elevating mental
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  well -being. Scientific research affirms its
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  benefits. So now you can check out Club Pilates
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  for a free class. With locations in Canton, Wellesley,
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  Hingham, Brookline, and Framingham, just be sure
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  to tell them sunny morning sent you by. And now,
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  back to the show. Let's talk tech. Apple's Siri
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  revamp could include auto -deleting chats. Privacy
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  will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new
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  version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference
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  in June, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
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  The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple's big
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  chance to re -establish its relevance in artificial
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  intelligence. As part of that effort, company
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  executives will argue that they're taking a more
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  privacy -friendly approach than most other artificial
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  intelligence companies. Apple will reportedly
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  launch the first standalone Siri app, powered
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  by Google Gemini, offering users a chatbot experience
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  reminiscent of ChatGPT. Siri could include a
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  feature allowing users to automatically delete
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  conversations after 30 days or one year. And
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  in entertainment news, in the first big deal
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  to go down at the can market, Amazon has swooped
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  on most international rides to Jonathan Bailey
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  and Natalie Portman's psychological thriller,
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  Pumping Black. Set in the competitive world of
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  professional cycling, Pumping Black follows cyclist
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  Taylor Mace, who at 35 years old is finding himself
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  aging out of the sport. He is taken under the
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  wing of Andrea Laith, a doctor driven by her
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  own thirst for victory and power. As the race
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  to the Tour de France progresses, Taylor must
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  take increasingly dark measures to protect his
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  secret. This streaming deal is landing in the
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  early 20s, making it one of the biggest deals
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  at the market. Well, alrighty folks, it's time
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  for the quote of the day. And today, our quote
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  comes from the American physicist and Nobel laureate,
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  Richard Feynman. And he said, The first principle
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  is that you must not fool yourself, and you are
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  the easiest person to fool. And that's a wrap
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  for this morning. You can check out our Instagram,
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  YouTube, and TikTok for some captivating aerial
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  videos with local news and the weather reports.
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  Have an amazing day, my good friends. We'll see
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  you tomorrow with another episode of Sunny Mornings
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  in Boston.