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VT Boader Patrol Ageny shot and killed, local fires, extreme cold, Inauguration and more! · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: Breaking for the batty breaking the one to break breaking,
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Speaker 1: turn the leader, to turn the baker.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to.
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Speaker 1: Waking for the last.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. You know what, even YouTube is having a
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Speaker 2: difficult time waking up this morning. YouTube running a little
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Speaker 2: on the delay this morning. I see maybe it's too
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Speaker 2: cold for YouTube. It could be too cold for YouTube. Uh,
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Speaker 2: good morning everybody. I'm jad Creen and welcome to the
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Speaker 2: Aired Out podcast live from Chili, Vermont. We're at my
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Speaker 2: house this morning. It was sitting right around negative fifteen.
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Speaker 2: I think parts of the Kingdom checking in this morning
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Speaker 2: at about negative twenty is what I'm hearing. But a
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Speaker 2: safe bet to say that most, if not all of
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Speaker 2: us here in the Green Mountain State are on the
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Speaker 2: underside of zero this morning. And yes, to all of
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Speaker 2: our friends who listen elsewhere, that's air temperature. That's not
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Speaker 2: with the wind chill, which the National Weather Service is
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Speaker 2: trying to do away with now they don't want to
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Speaker 2: use the word windchill anymore. These are air temperatures. Yes,
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Speaker 2: can we handle it? We can? We can. Sometimes when
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Speaker 2: it's this cold, when when you start driving your car
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Speaker 2: it feels like you got bricks in your wheels. But
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Speaker 2: We're gonna do just fine. And yes, I want to
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Speaker 2: thank this morning before we even get started the volunteers
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Speaker 2: who manned the Bury Auditorium last night as a shelter
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Speaker 2: for for folks that need a warm place to stay.
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Speaker 2: Four individuals were there last night, only four, which really
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Speaker 2: surprised me. The shelter is going to remain open until
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Speaker 2: Thursday is my understanding, but thank you to the volunteers
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Speaker 2: that did. That's check in this morning with deb Phillips
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Speaker 2: over at the World. Good morning, Deborah, how are you?
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Speaker 3: Good morning jad How are you doing?
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Speaker 2: It is Tuesday. I'm doing well. It's the already the
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Speaker 2: twenty first. Hard to believe that this month is ticking on.
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Speaker 2: Buy we're approaching February. But today is the World Day. Today,
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Speaker 2: Today's when we get our new copy. What can we
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Speaker 2: expect in there?
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Speaker 3: Well? The Farmers' Night Concerts start this Wednesday at seven
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Speaker 3: thirty at the Vermont State House with the Upper Valley
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Speaker 3: Community Band. These concerts run throughout the Legislature every Wednesday
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Speaker 3: at seven thirty. They're free and open to the public. Also,
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Speaker 3: if you're looking for a fun date night on Valentine's Day,
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Speaker 3: the Fleetwood Mac tribute band Tusk will be at the
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Speaker 3: Barry Opera House. We also have the Division one high
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Speaker 3: school basketball matchup at the Bury Auditorium on Friday, January
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Speaker 3: twenty fourth, and we want you to make sure you
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Speaker 3: don't miss the grocery specials at the Granite City Market
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Speaker 3: and Pump and Pantry. So papers are out being delivered
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Speaker 3: neither cold or rain or we're getting them out there,
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Speaker 3: so be sure to pick yours up at any of
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Speaker 3: the three hundred stands.
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Speaker 2: Wow, three hundred, and we're talking over twenty thousand vermontors
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Speaker 2: picking up the world and getting.
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Speaker 3: Their eyes we're talking about nine thousand, but readers average
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Speaker 3: about twenty two thousand.
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Speaker 2: Wow. VT dashworld dot com is the You can see
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Speaker 2: the digital version online there, right, Deb.
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Speaker 3: That's correct, that's up and running right now.
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Speaker 2: All right, wonderful. Can't wait to get my fresh new
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Speaker 2: copy today. And I'm not sure if Chris will be
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Speaker 2: out in the cold, but I'm guessing that he will.
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Speaker 2: He's a tough guy. I gotta say I saw Tusk
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Speaker 2: at the Opera House a few years ago. They are
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Speaker 2: absolutely fantastic. That is going to be one heck of
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Speaker 2: a show.
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Speaker 3: Deb, Oh, definitely definitely one not to.
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Speaker 2: Miss and wonderful that you would bring up the concerts
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Speaker 2: at the at the at the State House. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this is something that's been going on. This is a
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Speaker 2: tradition that goes.
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Speaker 3: Way way back, way back. Yes, yeah, yes, I'm not
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Speaker 3: sure exactly how long, but quite a ways back. It's oh,
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Speaker 3: it's saying goes back over one hundred years. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: so yeah, keeping those the legislators entertained.
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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, awesome, that's wonderful that you guys
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Speaker 2: have that in the paper. Thank you so much. Deb,
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Speaker 2: Say hello to Gary Forrest and we'll catch you again
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Speaker 2: next Tuesday.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks Jadi.
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Speaker 2: All right, Deb Phillips right there from the world. Happy
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Speaker 2: birthday today to Darlene Avery. Monique Billings. Payette is on
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Speaker 2: the list, along with Ruth Sherman, Wendy wooll Ever, Denise Levine,
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Speaker 2: Nella Lumber, Becca Henry, Happy birthday Becca. Let's see Tammy Coda,
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Speaker 2: and Sherry Henry, all celebrating birthdays today. Quick programming note,
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Speaker 2: before I forget two things tomorrow more. Quinn is going
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Speaker 2: to be sharing the microphone with me tomorrow morning. We're
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Speaker 2: going to be sharing her story with you. And if
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Speaker 2: you know Mara and a lot of people do, you
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Speaker 2: probably know what that story is. But I don't want
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Speaker 2: to allude to too much here, but it is an
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Speaker 2: amazing story, and I'm glad, I'm thrilled actually that she's
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Speaker 2: going to be brave enough to come in here tomorrow
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Speaker 2: morning and share a microphone with me and share that
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Speaker 2: with all of you. It is going to be incredible.
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Speaker 2: And then tomorrow afternoon we are gonna shift gears and
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Speaker 2: host a special Wednesday afternoon podcast episode with Sweethearts and Heroes.
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Speaker 2: And if you are not familiar with this organization and
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Speaker 2: everything that they have done for countless children, not just
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Speaker 2: here in Vermont, but just all over the country, you
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Speaker 2: do not want to miss this. Tom and Rick both
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Speaker 2: are going to be in here tomorrow. What an absolute honor.
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Speaker 2: I have been trying very hard, and so has Charlyn
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Speaker 2: to try to get them to make a stop off
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Speaker 2: here in the studio, and we talked for quite a
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Speaker 2: bit about the possibility of having them on remotely, but
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Speaker 2: to have them both here in the studio, we had
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Speaker 2: to hit the timing just right. And it looks like
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Speaker 2: this is going to be the one day out of
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Speaker 2: the entire year that we're going to be able to
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Speaker 2: have both Tom and Rick from Sweethearts and Heroes together
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Speaker 2: in the studio tomorrow, so a real honor. I cannot
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Speaker 2: wait to have them tomorrow afternoon. Exactly what time is
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Speaker 2: kind of up in the air because they're going to
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Speaker 2: be doing a presentation in Vermont and then they have
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Speaker 2: a few hour drive to get to Barry. So I
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Speaker 2: will let you know as soon as I have a
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Speaker 2: pretty good idea, but I'm guessing somewhere between two and
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Speaker 2: three tomorrow afternoon, and again, keep watching the page. I
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Speaker 2: will be letting you know. Some buses are running a
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Speaker 2: little late this morning, which is kind of thrown off
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Speaker 2: a lot of people's schedules in certain towns all over Vermont.
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Speaker 2: Some buses have a difficult time getting getting going when
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Speaker 2: it's when it's this cold, so there are some delays running.
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Speaker 2: Some schools running on delay as well, I think more
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Speaker 2: so up in the Northeast Kingdom, where again, if you
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Speaker 2: miss it this morning, they what I'm hearing is that
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Speaker 2: most towns up in the Northeast Kingdom are running somewhere
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Speaker 2: between fifteen and twenty and I think there was one
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Speaker 2: town was it Orleans. It was twenty two below zero
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Speaker 2: this morning air temp again. So yeah, when it's this cold,
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Speaker 2: I would assume that the kids aren't going to be
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Speaker 2: out playing outside for recess. Would be an assumption. Let's see,
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Speaker 2: I want to get to I want to get to
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Speaker 2: a couple of things here. But first off, the weather forecast.
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Speaker 2: They're saying that we're going to warm up to a
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Speaker 2: round twelve today. I say this, at least that's double
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Speaker 2: digits because we all know here in Vermont that we
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Speaker 2: have had cold snaps that have been much worse than this,
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Speaker 2: where we've had daytime highs of negative five, which I
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Speaker 2: remember daytime highs of zero or five above. But to
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Speaker 2: make it into the double digits, that's pretty good for
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Speaker 2: a snap. I think we're going to do just fine. Tonight.
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Speaker 2: They're saying most towns going to be around negative ten,
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Speaker 2: and then Wednesday sunny and cold thirteen Tomorrow, the snap
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Speaker 2: is kind of going to be coming to a slow
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Speaker 2: end by Thursday. We're going to rebound a little bit
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Speaker 2: to around twenty degrees on Thursday for high cloudy skies,
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Speaker 2: and then looking ahead to Friday, mix of sun and
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Speaker 2: clouds and around twenty as well. So yeah, so we'll
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Speaker 2: do just fine. We'll do just fine. We'll be fine.
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Speaker 2: Just you know, start the car up a little bit,
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Speaker 2: if you know, if you need to go anywhere. This
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Speaker 2: morning was it was difficult to get out of bed.
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Speaker 2: And maybe you're still in bed right now under the covers.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you got the electric planket on, maybe you don't,
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Speaker 2: but man, it was tough. It was tough. Did not
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Speaker 2: want to get get the fleece sheets, oh so so
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Speaker 2: comfy again. One more time here and it might be
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Speaker 2: two more times. But I want to thank the volunteers
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Speaker 2: that kept that shelter open at the Berry Auditorium last
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Speaker 2: night for folks who needed a warm place to stay
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Speaker 2: down in the basement. They had the heat on, they
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Speaker 2: had the cots set up, and I am so I
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Speaker 2: know so many of us are so grateful for this
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Speaker 2: opportunity that we have to utilize that building in different
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Speaker 2: ways and as it should be. And last night it
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Speaker 2: was only four people, from my understanding from reading in
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Speaker 2: the Times Sarcust this morning, took advantage of that emergency
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Speaker 2: warming shelter last night. I wish more people would take
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Speaker 2: advantage of that. And this is also an important time
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Speaker 2: to also say, you know, check on your neighbors. Make
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Speaker 2: sure they're fine, especially the elderly. Make sure they've you know,
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Speaker 2: their heat's working and that they're they're okay, you know,
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Speaker 2: and and if their cabinet doors need to be opened
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Speaker 2: up so their pipes don't freeze or whatever, you know,
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Speaker 2: just to go over just check on them, or at
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Speaker 2: least pick up the phone and give them a call
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Speaker 2: and say hey, doing all right? Uh, and make sure
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Speaker 2: they know that the Barry Auditorium is going to be
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Speaker 2: opened through Thursday as a warming shelter. And thank you
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Speaker 2: again to all of the volunteers. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: how many there are that are running that emergency shelter
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Speaker 2: up at the Barry Auditorium, but you know, make sure
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Speaker 2: if you know someone who's who's vulnerable in any way,
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Speaker 2: whether they're disabled, their elderly, what have you, just make
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Speaker 2: sure they're okay. Just check on them. Don't assume that
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Speaker 2: they are also your pets if you you know, And
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Speaker 2: we posted up last night on Facebook a reminder to
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Speaker 2: bring your pets indoors. If they're domestic animals that are
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Speaker 2: indoors outdoors like our cats, get them on the indoors today,
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Speaker 2: and you know, just make sure they're okay. And if
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Speaker 2: they're domestic animals that are out outdoors, you know, make
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Speaker 2: sure there's there's shelter, there's food, there's water that you know,
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Speaker 2: if if you got any uh, you know, heating stuff,
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Speaker 2: heating pads, whatever, that that it's plugged in, everything is working,
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Speaker 2: and if and and livestock too, you know, make sure
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Speaker 2: that that they're okay as well. You know, we we
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Speaker 2: all know that they're tough, but man, when it's when
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Speaker 2: it's this cold, even your your your chickens, you know,
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Speaker 2: tough animals, very resilient animals, but just double check make
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Speaker 2: sure that all animals are well taken care of when
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Speaker 2: it's this cold. Kind of goes without saying it should
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Speaker 2: be obvious, but you know, Facebook question of the Day
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Speaker 2: this morning dropped this one at about six this morning.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of a first of its kind project that
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Speaker 2: is tapping into energy beneath the ground to heat and
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Speaker 2: cool people's homes. It is a geothermal pilot program that
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Speaker 2: was just launched in Massachusetts and it could have customers
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Speaker 2: saving a lot of money per month on their utility bills.
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Speaker 2: I'm wondering and this is what I posted up this morning.
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Speaker 2: And please scroll down and when you find the the
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Speaker 2: FBQ the Facebook Question of the Day, post up your comments.
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Speaker 2: I want to hear what you have to say. I
16:54
Speaker 2: want to know if you think that Vermond lawmakers are
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Speaker 2: aware of this, if Vermont lawmakers are paying attention to this.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they are aware of this, but maybe they're not.
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Speaker 2: And if something like this could possibly be considered in
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Speaker 2: the future here in Vermont and maybe the near future.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Kind of far out for this old
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Speaker 2: fellow for me to digest something like that, but anyway, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's it's interesting. It is. It is very interesting. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: we'll talk. We'll talk about about Trump and a little
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Speaker 2: bit and everything that went down yesterday. Well not everything
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Speaker 2: will brush on it will brush on it. There's a
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Speaker 2: check in Vermont headlines. There's a fire this morning in
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Speaker 2: Richmond that I understand has been uh, the firefighters are battling.
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Speaker 2: I don't know much more about that. I hope everyone
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Speaker 2: is okay. Horrible timing man. When it's not that it's
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Speaker 2: ever a good time, but when it's this cold. Wow.
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Speaker 2: We got the governor's news conference at twelve noon today.
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Speaker 2: I am sure that he'll be discussing everything that that
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Speaker 2: happened yesterday up in the border. And if you're not
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Speaker 2: familiar with with what happened, it was it was pretty
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Speaker 2: pretty hectic yesterday. A Border Patrol agent assigned to the
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Speaker 2: US Border Patrol's Swanton sector was fatally shot in the
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Speaker 2: line of duty yesterday afternoon at around three point fifteen
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Speaker 2: for Monsty Police had Interstate ninety one closed between exits
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Speaker 2: twenty seven, which is the Newport exit and Exit twenty six,
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Speaker 2: the Orleans exit that was that was partially closed, and
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Speaker 2: then the southbound lane was completely closed and expected to
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Speaker 2: be part of a long duration closure. According to from
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Speaker 2: Oxty Police, I haven't heard, and maybe you have, and
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Speaker 2: if you have, please put it in the in the
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Speaker 2: comments here right now so that I can see whether
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Speaker 2: that southbound lane is still closed. I'm assuming, and my god,
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Speaker 2: do we all know what happens when you assume, But
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Speaker 2: I am. I'm assuming that it is still closed because
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Speaker 2: I haven't seen or heard otherwise. But what a what
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Speaker 2: a tragedy the I could not believe my eyes when
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Speaker 2: that one popped up on my phone yesterday. When was
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Speaker 2: the last time that a border patrol agent was killed
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Speaker 2: in the line of duty. I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: A long time ago. I think FBI is leading the investigation,
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Speaker 2: along with a lot of assistants from the Vermont Stay
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Speaker 2: Police and the FBI. This morning is saying that a
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Speaker 2: third person was injured in is now in custody. So
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Speaker 2: there's a lot. Obviously, there's a lot of questions here.
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Speaker 2: You know, Vince Lucy was up in the area. There
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Speaker 2: was a little bit of speculation that he was nearby
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Speaker 2: the scene as this all happened, and may or may
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Speaker 2: not have witnessed this agent approaching a vehicle where he
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Speaker 2: was fired upon. I think that was in some of
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Speaker 2: the earlier reports from from yesterday from w c a X,
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Speaker 2: but it wasn't. It wasn't very clearly defined. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot up in the air here. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: this story that we don't know that so many from
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Speaker 2: honors have have questions about. I mean the obvious, you know,
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Speaker 2: who was it, what happened, why did it happened? You know,
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Speaker 2: was the car loaded up with with drugs? You know what?
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Speaker 2: What's the story here? However, regardless of all of that,
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Speaker 2: regardless of all of the details which I'm sure will
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Speaker 2: come to light here soon and made public. We lost Vermona.
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Speaker 2: We lost a border patrol agent who was shot in
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Speaker 2: the neck and died right there on the scene. My
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Speaker 2: understanding is that the shooter was also killed. Don't know how,
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Speaker 2: don't know by who, but that he was taken out.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if he was by himself. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if he was the only one in the car.
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Speaker 2: I don't know at this point. Right now, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: What matters is again that we we lost a border
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Speaker 2: patrol agent. How this kind of shit can happen is
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Speaker 2: It's outrageous, and this has and will continue to rattle
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Speaker 2: our community for some time, just as the officer shooting
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Speaker 2: in Saint Johnsbury has just recently. And you know it
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Speaker 2: especially at a time when we're seeing in the news
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Speaker 2: that a lot of these border crossings are running on
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Speaker 2: reduced hours with reduced staff, and that some of these
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Speaker 2: borders are going to be temporarily closed due to staffing.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine. I can't imagine being a border patrol agent, frankly,
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Speaker 2: at any border. I just can't imagine. There are so
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Speaker 2: many people that are grieving the loss of this border
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Speaker 2: patrol agent yesterday, his family, his friends, his colleagues, other
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Speaker 2: border patrol agents. We don't know if he was a dad, husband,
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Speaker 2: we don't know, don't even know how old he is.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, this is crazy that this kind
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Speaker 2: of shit is going down in our little Green Mountain state. Unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: It makes you wonder, and it makes you question a
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Speaker 2: lot of a lot of stuff. I hope that that
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Speaker 2: answers are given. I hope that transparent answers are given,
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Speaker 2: and that this story and all of the details of
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Speaker 2: what happened and how something like this might be able
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Speaker 2: to be prevented in the future. I hope all of
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Speaker 2: this is brought to light sooner than later. This is
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Speaker 2: this is crazy stuff. What's going on in our state?
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Speaker 2: Man Stacy's saying, uh that that was that this story
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Speaker 2: is even big news as far down as as Florida
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Speaker 2: this morning, where Stacy is very sad, very sad story yesterday.
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Speaker 2: And again I hope we I hope we get answers.
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Speaker 2: But more importantly, you know, how can how can something
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Speaker 2: like this be prevented? You never know who's pulling up
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Speaker 2: in front of you, uh, in a in a vehicle.
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Speaker 2: You never know what they've got on board, and you
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Speaker 2: never know what kind of person they are and what's
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Speaker 2: important to them, what their motives are, how desperate they are,
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Speaker 2: crazy crazy, crazy shit. And at the twelve noon press
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Speaker 2: conference today, it is my very strong assumption that the
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Speaker 2: governor will be discussing this as much as he is
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Speaker 2: able to. You know, wow, just wow. What else do
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Speaker 2: we have going on in Vermont news? That is by
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Speaker 2: far the lead story, by the way, and one that
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Speaker 2: I'll be watching and paying attention to throughout the day,
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Speaker 2: as I know you will as well. And if you
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Speaker 2: see any developments in this story, please share it away.
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Speaker 2: We have in the Times Argus this morning three people
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Speaker 2: that are facing criminal charges after police say they broke
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Speaker 2: into a home right here in Barry Prospect Street, stone's
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Speaker 2: throw almost from where I am right now. Courtney Laccolade,
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Speaker 2: thirty years old of Williamstown, Joshua Gratton, forty five, from Barry,
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Speaker 2: Isaiah Robert Whiteley, thirty four years old. They've each been
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Speaker 2: charged in Washington County Criminal Court in Berry with a
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Speaker 2: felony count of unlawful trespass into an occupied resident, and
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Speaker 2: if convicted, each faces a maximum sentence of three years
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Speaker 2: in prison. I know what you're thinking, Well JD, come on,
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Speaker 2: that'll never happen. Laccolade and Gratton pleaded not guilty at
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Speaker 2: the arraignment. They were both released on conditions. Whiteley failed
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Speaker 2: to appear for his arraignment, and now there's a warrant
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Speaker 2: out for his arrest with a bail set at are
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Speaker 2: you sitting down one hundred dollars? Berry City Police say
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Speaker 2: that in their affidavit that they were that a woman
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Speaker 2: called to report that she believed three people have broken
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Speaker 2: in or home on Prospect Street and that the building
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Speaker 2: is currently vacant. Police went to the scene. Neighbor confirmed
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Speaker 2: that what the victim reported was was true, that three
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Speaker 2: people had entered the building. Police went into the building
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Speaker 2: and could hear someone walking upstairs announced themselves multiple times.
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Speaker 2: Nobody responded, and police found the three down in the basement,
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Speaker 2: hiding behind the furnace. So shocker here. Drug paraphernalia was
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Speaker 2: found unwhitely similar last night in Alburg. And we've been
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Speaker 2: seeing this pop up in the news where people are
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Speaker 2: and I don't know what it is. I don't know
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Speaker 2: if they're if it's desperation, you know what it is,
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Speaker 2: but people are showing up at people's homes, whether they're
31:24
Speaker 2: occupied or not, and just breaking in. Yeah, Becky one
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Speaker 2: hundred bucks Alburg. Last night, video security camera surveillance footage
31:45
Speaker 2: has been made public. I think it's on my NBC
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Speaker 2: five of this guy trying to get break into a
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Speaker 2: house in Alburg last night in the middle of the night.
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Speaker 2: You know, some some some of some homes. They look
32:05
Speaker 2: like they're vacant, but they're not. People live in there
32:15
Speaker 2: and hopefully people that are protected armed. Amazing, absolutely amazing
32:29
Speaker 2: that this kind of stuff is happening here in Vermont.
32:34
Speaker 2: It really is. Let's see, should we talk about yesterday?
32:49
Speaker 2: Should we talk about the once in a generation winter
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Speaker 2: storm that is sweeping through the South, bone chilling temperatures,
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Speaker 2: potentially historic snowfall. Stacy said, what did you say, Stacy's
33:09
Speaker 2: sixties this morning down in uh Ford, Pierce, I think,
33:19
Speaker 2: which isn't isn't bad. But I know that we've been
33:25
Speaker 2: in touch with some people down in North Carolina and
33:29
Speaker 2: Georgia and they're they're complaining about the cold. The governors
33:35
Speaker 2: in Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi and Georgia have all
33:42
Speaker 2: declared states of emergency. People don't move down there when
33:47
Speaker 2: it gets a little cold. Everything is relative. We can't say,
33:54
Speaker 2: you know, well that's not cold, because they could say
33:59
Speaker 2: to us, well it's ninety five up there, that's not hot.
34:07
Speaker 2: More than two hundred and twenty million people across forty
34:09
Speaker 2: states are affected by the bitterly cold hair, with the
34:15
Speaker 2: upper Midwest and the northern Plains likely to experience wind
34:19
Speaker 2: chills as low as fifty five degrees below zero this week.
34:28
Speaker 2: If you were a governor, would you declare that as
34:32
Speaker 2: a state of emergency? I would think yes. I mean again,
34:41
Speaker 2: these people don't they they don't know how to deal
34:44
Speaker 2: with temperatures like that. That's crazy. And throw in some
34:54
Speaker 2: snowfall and in some areas some pretty heavy snowfall. Fifty
35:01
Speaker 2: five below with temperatures like that, if your skin is exposed,
35:06
Speaker 2: it can it can cause hypothermia in a matter of minutes.
35:14
Speaker 2: Really is just crazy crazy. Yeah, I'm the only one
35:29
Speaker 2: in the shop not bundled up. Usual wardrobe shorts and shorts,
35:34
Speaker 2: leave shirt. Yeah, there's a blizzard watch in New Orleans.
35:40
Speaker 2: I mean unbelievable. Do they have to deal with the
35:45
Speaker 2: clean heat act as well. Nope, my niece is is
36:00
Speaker 2: and will be for a few more days down at
36:03
Speaker 2: the inauguration and was there yesterday and has sent me
36:11
Speaker 2: some pictures which are pretty pretty amazing. Everybody's got the
36:20
Speaker 2: black bow tie on. I'm not sure if you watched
36:28
Speaker 2: any of the inauguration yesterday. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't.
36:38
Speaker 2: And I know I'm friends with all kinds of people,
36:44
Speaker 2: and I have friends that tuned into the inauguration and
36:50
Speaker 2: watched every second of it from morning until late last night,
36:58
Speaker 2: including coverage of President Trump and First Lady Millennia Trump
37:13
Speaker 2: the inaugural ball dance, and watched the moment that they
37:22
Speaker 2: shared their first dance last night. Now, for me personally,
37:33
Speaker 2: I have a million and one things that are more
37:37
Speaker 2: important for me to do. For others, they wouldn't have
37:43
Speaker 2: missed it for the world. I respect that, and I
37:50
Speaker 2: also respect those that couldn't have cared less about a
37:58
Speaker 2: second of the accuration yesterday. Becky says it was like
38:08
Speaker 2: a train wreck, couldn't look away, caused a lot of anxiety.
38:14
Speaker 2: President Trump signed a series of executive actions within hours
38:19
Speaker 2: after taking office on Monday, signing them each of them
38:30
Speaker 2: in their own leather bound Buck signed each of them
38:38
Speaker 2: with a different pen. Had to laugh about that. This morning,
38:46
Speaker 2: revoking seventy eight of Joe Biden's policies, seventy eight among
38:57
Speaker 2: a slew of immediate orders, Trump pardoned more than a
39:04
Speaker 2: thousand people charged in the January sixth, twenty twenty one
39:09
Speaker 2: attack on the US Capitol. And for the folks that
39:14
Speaker 2: don't like Trump this morning, that is one of several
39:21
Speaker 2: reasons for you to be infuriated. Some of you frustrated,
39:29
Speaker 2: some of you could care less. Is there an executive
39:40
Speaker 2: order that says that you cannot wear shorts outdoors if
39:44
Speaker 2: it's below zero? I don't think that one made the
39:51
Speaker 2: list yesterday. But the full, complete and unconditional pardons extend
39:58
Speaker 2: to people who were convey of some of the worst
40:02
Speaker 2: crimes committed on the day of the capital insurrection. Trump
40:07
Speaker 2: also declared a national emergency at the US Mexico border,
40:13
Speaker 2: national emergency, triggering the use of Pentagon resources in personnel,
40:22
Speaker 2: personnel that will be deployed and used to build the
40:26
Speaker 2: border wall. I thought that was all built up. Meanwhile,
40:34
Speaker 2: the Trump administration is withdrawing the US from the Paris
40:39
Speaker 2: Climate Agreement, and the who the World Health Organization. Some
40:55
Speaker 2: of these things have made my eyebrows lift as they
41:00
Speaker 2: are right now, and some not. Wow. In his formal
41:13
Speaker 2: address yesterday, I thought he had generally some pretty good comments,
41:27
Speaker 2: and I again, I don't know if you saw that.
41:31
Speaker 2: Some of it was making me wonder if the fact
41:37
Speaker 2: checkers were busy at work. That's what Trump does. He
41:45
Speaker 2: throws out facts that may not be facts. I mean,
41:53
Speaker 2: come on, hasn't haven't all presidents done that? Haven't all
41:58
Speaker 2: politicians done that? But some of the things that he
42:03
Speaker 2: said in his formal address yesterday I thought were well said.
42:13
Speaker 2: Some I couldn't believe. Some comments I couldn't believe. And
42:17
Speaker 2: then when he went downstairs and addressed the overflow crowd
42:28
Speaker 2: informally that would be informal with a capital capital I,
42:37
Speaker 2: I mean it was. I couldn't believe it. I know
42:45
Speaker 2: some of you say, JD, you shouldn't be surprised, you
42:51
Speaker 2: should believe it, But I couldn't believe how informal the
42:56
Speaker 2: ramblings were yesterday to that crowd, completely unbridled, no teleprompter,
43:16
Speaker 2: no direction, rambling all over the place, talking like you
43:26
Speaker 2: would if you were at a cocktail party and it was.
43:36
Speaker 2: It was it was surprising. That's the only word I
43:42
Speaker 2: can come up with to witness some of that. And
43:49
Speaker 2: as Dave says, he got worse as the day went on.
43:53
Speaker 2: I mean, I just I couldn't belief how casual and
44:06
Speaker 2: informal it was. I know people who are fans of
44:17
Speaker 2: Trump who were even saying it texted me last night,
44:22
Speaker 2: just please stop. Stop. Somebody bring out the big hook
44:32
Speaker 2: and just pull them off away from the mic. Did
44:38
Speaker 2: you see the look on JD Vance's face yesterday and
44:46
Speaker 2: the other guy his name is drawn a blank, who
44:49
Speaker 2: was standing to Trump's left as they were downstairs during
44:56
Speaker 2: that very informal What was it a speech? It wasn't
45:01
Speaker 2: wasn't it wasn't a speech?
45:03
Speaker 3: Was it?
45:05
Speaker 2: Whatever? It was? The look on those guys on their faces,
45:13
Speaker 2: totally uncomfortable. I mean, at one point, the guy that
45:28
Speaker 2: Trump's left it took his glasses off and was like
45:32
Speaker 2: kind of did one of these He was like rubbed
45:37
Speaker 2: his eyes and like put his glasses back on and
45:40
Speaker 2: kind of blinked a few times like this as if
45:43
Speaker 2: to say, where am I What is happening right now? Amazing? Yeah,
46:00
Speaker 2: Dave says we should see cabinet members getting fired or
46:06
Speaker 2: quitting soon. Dave, there are people that would say to
46:16
Speaker 2: you and to me, don't be surprised. The older I get,
46:26
Speaker 2: the less I'm surprised by frankly, anything anything. A lot
46:34
Speaker 2: of a lot of sirens this morning in Berry, very
46:43
Speaker 2: very active mourning for first responders, and I'm not sure
46:48
Speaker 2: what the hell's going on, but they have been ripping
46:51
Speaker 2: up and down North Main Street here in I think,
46:58
Speaker 2: mostly to the east all morning. So I hope everybody
47:04
Speaker 2: is okay. Yeah, a fire in Montpellier is what Hillary's saying.
47:25
Speaker 2: And a fire in Richmond this morning as well. My god,
47:30
Speaker 2: I hope everyone is okay. Have you seen the pictures
47:38
Speaker 2: and or the video of this fire that broke out
47:41
Speaker 2: at this ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey. I've heard
47:54
Speaker 2: in the news that ten people have died. I've heard
47:58
Speaker 2: that seventy people have died in that investigators are working
48:08
Speaker 2: to determine the cause of the blaze at this popular
48:12
Speaker 2: winter vacation destination again in northwestern Turkey. And some of
48:20
Speaker 2: the videos that have been shared on social media and
48:23
Speaker 2: broadcast on TV in Turkey showing flames coming out of
48:29
Speaker 2: the top floors of this hotel. Video of people tying
48:38
Speaker 2: bed sheets together to try to escape this fire. Two
48:42
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty four guests staying in the hotel. Two
48:47
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty four people. Insanity. Yeah, amazing, I'm just
49:07
Speaker 2: glancing here. You know, We've got some really big stories
49:13
Speaker 2: that are going on in our nation, and I'm not
49:18
Speaker 2: sure if some of the stupid shit, like what's going
49:24
Speaker 2: on with Costco and members of the Teamsters union that
49:29
Speaker 2: have authorized a strike against Costco on February first, unless
49:37
Speaker 2: they reach a deal before then. I'm not sure if
49:41
Speaker 2: stories like this are just timed perfectly in order to
49:47
Speaker 2: distract us, But sometimes it seems that way. Eighteen thousand
49:53
Speaker 2: Costco workers are set to go on strike at fifty
49:57
Speaker 2: six warehouses across five states starting February first. Contract expires
50:06
Speaker 2: January thirty first. Stuff like that. You know, It's like,
50:12
Speaker 2: I don't know, so many bigger things that are more
50:21
Speaker 2: worthy of my attention. Two massive wildfires erupted in Los Angeles.
50:37
Speaker 2: Eight people have been arrested in southern California. Eight accused
50:49
Speaker 2: of setting these fires in southern California, setting trees, bushes,
50:57
Speaker 2: leaves on fire, and dead Christmas trees that have been
51:04
Speaker 2: left out for trash collection. People that have nothing better
51:16
Speaker 2: to do then walk around with a blow torch literally
51:25
Speaker 2: and do stuff like this. Eight people. I wonder what
51:34
Speaker 2: will happen to those eight I wonder if they'll get
51:43
Speaker 2: a slap on the wrist. I wonder who will even
51:51
Speaker 2: attempt to try to represent them? Amazing? What else is happening?
52:04
Speaker 2: Ohio State Buckeyes won the College Football Playoff National Championship
52:09
Speaker 2: last night, beating Notre Dame thirty four to twenty three.
52:14
Speaker 2: Pretty cool Buckeyes thrilled? Super Bowl coming up? What is
52:21
Speaker 2: it Sunday? The Is it the ninth? I'm pretty sure
52:27
Speaker 2: I should know. Shame on you, JD? Should know this.
52:37
Speaker 2: What else did I want to tell you about? Oh Man?
52:45
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk too much about this about
52:47
Speaker 2: the Trump merchandise that you can buy now. I don't
52:56
Speaker 2: want to go too deep into the first lady's fashion state. Yesterday, Shit,
53:02
Speaker 2: I heard Sharlyn what the hell is you wearing? What
53:05
Speaker 2: is that sombrero? But now we have news out this
53:14
Speaker 2: morning about Trump creating his new bitcoin mean coins with Millennia.
53:33
Speaker 2: Are you surprised by that? Come on, JD? You can't
53:40
Speaker 2: be surprised. It's been in the news for months. Bitcoin
53:48
Speaker 2: hits a new record of one hundred and nine thousand
53:57
Speaker 2: dollars do we even say dollars anymore? After they launched
54:08
Speaker 2: these meme coins one hundred and nine k. Bitcoin stock
54:18
Speaker 2: has jumped forty percent since Trump was elected in November.
54:38
Speaker 2: I'm saying to the whole bitcoin thing, thanks, but no thanks.
54:45
Speaker 2: I'm good man. There's some crazy, crazy shit going on
54:55
Speaker 2: in our world. Thanks for the comments this morning, boy,
55:05
Speaker 2: there's a lot of them. What's my Super Bowl prediction?
55:14
Speaker 2: Am I really the person that you want to ask
55:16
Speaker 2: that question too? I don't. I always go for the underdog.
55:27
Speaker 2: What can I say? I don't know. I don't know.
55:34
Speaker 2: I'll be happy to sit with a warm blanket and
55:37
Speaker 2: maybe some of my famous beef stew. That's my prediction
55:44
Speaker 2: for Super Bowl Sunday. Uh? What else? What's whacked in
55:51
Speaker 2: the world? Oh? My god, so much, so much. Just
55:55
Speaker 2: turn your phone on like I did yesterday and saw
55:59
Speaker 2: that this woman and in Texas just won two point
56:02
Speaker 2: eight million dollars in court after a restaurant's barbecue sauce
56:08
Speaker 2: burned her leg. She dropped the container and it caused
56:12
Speaker 2: a second degree burn. This restaurant allegedly serves their barbecue
56:21
Speaker 2: sauce at one hundred and eighty nine degrees. Is that boiling?
56:27
Speaker 2: I mean, getting burned by coffee is bad enough, but
56:32
Speaker 2: this is more like like napalm delicious napalm, yes, but
56:40
Speaker 2: still nonetheless. I mean, you can mentioned dropping one hundred
56:43
Speaker 2: and eighty nine degree barbecue sauce on your leg guessing
56:48
Speaker 2: she was wearing shorts. Don't know, Bill Miller. Barbecue is
56:53
Speaker 2: the name of the restaurant. Restaurant Shan in Texas got
56:59
Speaker 2: about eighty one locations Corpus Christy and Austin and elsewhere.
57:08
Speaker 2: She ordered four of the breakfast tacos with the side
57:13
Speaker 2: of barbecue sauce, pulled into the parking lot to eat.
57:20
Speaker 2: First of all, I understand Texas doesn't play around, but
57:26
Speaker 2: who the hell's eating barbecue sauce for breakfast? Maybe they
57:29
Speaker 2: do in Texas, but I don't want barbecue sauce on
57:36
Speaker 2: my breakfast burrito, hot or cold barbecue sauce. But apparently
57:45
Speaker 2: second degree burns for a reference here, and I'm just
57:53
Speaker 2: looking at water boils at two hundred and twelve degrees
57:57
Speaker 2: and this barbecue sauce was one hundred and eight nine degrees,
58:01
Speaker 2: so not too far off. Wow. Impairment, disfigurement, medical expenses,
58:13
Speaker 2: lost wages, physical and mental pain. Restaurant one hundred percent
58:19
Speaker 2: negligent and awarded her two point eight million dollars in damages. Wow.
58:33
Speaker 2: There's a lot of heavy stuff in the news. I know,
58:37
Speaker 2: and I know that so many of you are a
58:44
Speaker 2: discouraged and hopeless and everything about yesterday. But look at
58:54
Speaker 2: what's in front of you and focus on your own life,
59:04
Speaker 2: what's important to you and the obvious good things that
59:11
Speaker 2: we have in front of us. Lighten up a little bit,
59:19
Speaker 2: prioritize things that are or should be most important to you,
59:28
Speaker 2: because at the end of the day, that's what matters.
59:33
Speaker 2: I leave you with something a little light this morning.
59:38
Speaker 2: Maybe put a smile on your kisser. The woman in
59:43
Speaker 2: Turkey who is a proud world record holder Guinness Book
59:53
Speaker 2: of World Records after using her power This is a
59:58
Speaker 2: true story, Dave, I'm not making this up, after using
1:00:03
Speaker 2: her powerful thighs to crush the world record five watermelons
1:00:16
Speaker 2: in sixty seconds. People take this stuff seriously. Guinness Book
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Speaker 2: of World Records sitting on the ground, putting a watermelon
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