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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
So excited. Every year iHeart Radio gives you the iHeart
Radio Music Awards, and so we were asked to keep
it a top secret until nine o'clock East Coast time,
in eight minutes. But it's already out.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So there's already articles about it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, it's already. It's out everywhere. Oh. I just asked
Tom Pullman, the president of iHeart Everything. I said, why
are we waiting till nine? It's already out. He said,
it's out. Can you get Tom on the phone's asking
because I want to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Can you get him on the phone.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
I'm going to pull up Hell to the chief in
the meaning, yeah, pull up, pull up, Hail to the Chief,
Hell to the knaw.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Hell.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
No, it was great.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
The announcement's amazing. It's cool. No, No, let me tell you.
This year's I Hurt Radio Music Awards will be, of
course as spectacular as ever, but also in Los Angeles
and taking care of business because Los Angeles is Los
Angeles is in a you know, they're in a state,
they're they're in a world of hurt right now, and
so we're gonna use the star power of all our
(01:19):
friends who are gonna come together at the iHeart Radio
Music Awards to to make a difference. We're getna, We're
gonna get Tom on the phone. Here, get Tom on
the phone. Play hell to the chief. Please help the chief.
Here he is, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the
iHeart Radio Music Awards, Tom Pullman. Welcome Tom.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
How's it going, guys?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Hey, doing great? Doing great? Hey. So I know we
were asked to hold off until, you know, five minutes
from now to do the announcement, but it's it's out everywhere,
so it's okay. We can talk about it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Sure, let's go.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Okay, I, by the way, you know me, I may
go ahead and say what AP News is saying, big
organ organization. By the way, Tom Pullman, responsible for every
square inch of this amazing awards night. Taylor Swift and
Morgan we have help Taylor Swift and Okay, here's the headline.
Taylor Swift and Morgan Walden lead the twenty twenty five
iHeartRadio Musical nominations. I agree here yeah, followed closely by
(02:23):
Kendrick Lamar, Sabrina Carpenter, Post Malone. So I guess we're
kind of wondering who el is going to be there.
I know that may I get may I.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Give the to the two that we're so you can
give to Yeah, you can give the two.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yes, I'm gonna give whoever's whatever's in the announcement.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, that's out.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well, first of all, let's hear from Mariah Carey and
Lady Gaga. How did you swing that? Tom good?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Gosh, Well, you know, Mariah.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
She's been a good friend of ours for a long time,
and we thought it was time to give her the
Eye Not Award.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
And then scene with Lady Gaga and there's probably.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Uh, you know, so many things that she's done that
are so innovative, and it was time for that to
happen as well.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So we're excited for both of them.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Another superstar, which is actually a major superstar at the
awards this year, is the City of Los Angeles. I mean,
we're going to pay tribute to LA following the wildfires,
and we're gonna drive those donations to Fire AIDLA dot org.
So you'll hear a lot of that. Oh. Here it
is John Sykes, the President of Entertainment Enterprises in this
press release, and Tom Pullman that you the chief programming officer.
(03:38):
We're a team. Apparently you guys make it together. You
made a joint statement, did you know that. Here's here's
what you said. Here's what you said. You said, It's
a night where we honor the incredible artist and songs
that fans loved all year long, and this year's show
will shine a light on the devastating tragedy that impacted
LA and enable us to deliver on our commitment to
(04:00):
the communities we serve it. iHeartRadio. I love that.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
That's so well said.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Okay, so we know Lady Gaga will be there receiving
the Innovator Award and Mariah Carey the Icon Award, but
I don't see anyone else on the on the release,
so we got to there are secrets we got.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, we got to keep some secrets.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Translation, they haven't really signed up anyone else, but they will.
They will.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
It's gonna be big and it'll be a great night.
I mean, just look at what we did last year.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
There'll be a lot of really cool surprises and cool
moments and collaborations and.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
That kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And I love new categories like you have the favorite
Broadway debut category this year, like Nicole that was a
good one, Charlie Dmilio, Robert Downey Juniors on there. I
mean it's gonna be Adam Lambert's on there, so it's cool.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Well, I will tell you the listeners voting for those yep.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Well for song of that, you can vote right now.
By the way, special voting begins today at iHeartRadio dot Com.
Slash Awards for Song of the Year, Shabboozies of Our
Song faces off against Lamar's Not Like Us and Sabrina's
Espresso Malone and Wallin's I had some help? Doja Kata Go?
What hits this year? Doja Katsigoria Hills, Benson Boone's Beautiful Things,
(05:11):
Tate mccray's Greedy. Speaking of Tate McCrae, I do believe
we have some brand new Tate McCray coming out Friday
for you.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
We do.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Jack Harlow's Love It On. Jack Harlow's Loving On Me
is up for Sono of the Year. It's gonna be great.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
The twenty twenty five I Hurt Radio Music Awards will
air live from the Dolby Theater in La March seventeenth,
eight o'clock East Coast on Fox, and of course of
all across our iHeart Radio stations across the US. I
just want to let you know that a news story
like this cannot be held back until nine o'clock. Apparently not, No,
(05:48):
not at all. By the way, I think, I think
the day of the awards is Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
It is the seventeen Oh yeah, seventeen.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
You're Irish, aren't you, Tom, Tom old polmam this night there? Yes,
all right, Well, okay, we just want to let you
know that it's already been released. The world's talking about
the iHeart Radio Music Awards. So are you gonna go
fire someone? I'm kidding you shouldn't exactly anyway. Okay, But
that said, well, hold on, GODDI has a question. Yeah, Tom,
(06:17):
don't go anywhere yet, because I have a question. So,
when things like this happen and a story leaks before
we actually talk about it, are we then allowed to
talk about it like we just did going forward, or
do we have to call you every dain?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I think in this case it was okay since it
was out. But my next call is to figure out
how it leaked.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Sogo to be and what's done is done. It takes
a it is what it is.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You know, here's a good thing. Is it's all good news? Yeah,
it is all good news.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Absolutely, And we made sure we stayed nice and positive
during this conversation. We love you, Tom. We can't wait
for the iHeart.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Radio Music Awards.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
It will officially be announced in a few minutes. Love
you bye. I feel like I didn'tally get an answer to
my question. No he did. Once it's leaked, then we
can just go with it.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Well, I know, but when you play hand of the Chief,
you know it's a politician talking. I'll go find him
when he walks in there, you go. So we'll make
the official announcement coming up. But you heard it first year.
I'm sorry, was that funny