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Handel on the News · The Bill Handel Show

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
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  Speaker 1: AM six forty.
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  Speaker 2: Here's one that I really like In San Francisco. Elephants
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  Speaker 2: have to be on a leash on Market Street. That's
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  Speaker 2: a problem. And you can't wipe your car with used underwear.
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  Speaker 1: Damn it. What do you think I use my underwear for?
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  Speaker 2: And now handle on the news, ladies and gentlemen, here's
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  Speaker 2: Bill Handle.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good morning everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Day two of are back to our normal broadcast gear year.
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  Speaker 1: It is a January sixth Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: And it's I'm not quite back in the saddle again,
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  Speaker 2: but that's I think it's because Neil is.
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  Speaker 1: Out this weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So when everybody comes back together, it's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say hello, everybody. Cono. You've got your MAGA hat on,
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  Speaker 1: don't you. Yeah. It's actually a one Love I E
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  Speaker 1: had there, Bill I. One Love I E. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great company. One Love I E is a company, or
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  Speaker 1: it's also in everything we love. You know.
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  Speaker 3: It's just about spreading love and good good, good nature.
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  Speaker 1: And it's pretty fun. That's actually vomitous. No, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I'm about to puke right now.
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  Speaker 2: Self made entrepreneur justin Yeah, yeah, just yeah, it's oh yeah, okay, great, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I feel much better the way did we start.
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  Speaker 2: Doday really well with me? All right, So good morning Knou.
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  Speaker 2: And there is Amy Amy sweatshirt that I can't see
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  Speaker 2: what it says, h zip it up?
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  Speaker 1: There you go is Canbury, England. Canterbury. Have you ever been?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that's where I got it.
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  Speaker 1: It's phenomenal, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: You go to the Canterbury Cathedral where the archbishop hangs out,
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  Speaker 2: and I have been there.
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  Speaker 1: I have met the archbishop.
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  Speaker 4: Actually we did not go into the cathedral voat. We
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  Speaker 4: took a little boat ride in the canals of Canterbury.
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  Speaker 4: It was beautiful, one of my favorite places.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's absolutely lovely.
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  Speaker 2: And I have a very dear friend of mine who
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  Speaker 2: is on the board of Canterbury Cathedral. And one year
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  Speaker 2: Christmas service that was held by the archbishop. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: they do a Christmas service every year, and we went
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  Speaker 2: and you go actually into the crypt and you follow
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  Speaker 2: the footsteps of Thomas Beckett when he was he was
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  Speaker 2: killed by the soldiers of Anyway, it's a long story
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  Speaker 2: of the king because he wouldn't allow the king, or
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't agree with what the king was and he
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  Speaker 2: was the archbishop and he was murdered.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, it's a beautiful, uplifting story, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's even it gets even better.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, you follow his footsteps and at one point,
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  Speaker 2: when the king's men slam on the door saying let
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  Speaker 2: us in in the name of the King, you actually
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  Speaker 2: go up to that point and someone from the other side,
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  Speaker 2: this is during the service pounds on the door said
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  Speaker 2: let us in in the name of the King.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's very moving, it really is very good.
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  Speaker 2: Now you have to understand, or maybe you do already,
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  Speaker 2: is that the Anglican religion, the Church of England is
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  Speaker 2: Protestant and they consider it Catholic Light, so it's.
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  Speaker 1: Sort of kind of Catholic, but not really Catholic.
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  Speaker 2: So at the end of the service, the archbishu you
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  Speaker 2: go in the crypt and everybody's holding a candle and
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  Speaker 2: it's very moving and it's just absolutely lovely. And at
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  Speaker 2: the end of the service the archbishop says, and in
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  Speaker 2: the name of the Father.
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  Speaker 1: And the Son, the Father of the Holy.
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  Speaker 2: Ghost, and in the name of he says it again
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  Speaker 2: in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen, and I'm with
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  Speaker 2: my kids, and Barbara says amen, and then she turns
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  Speaker 2: to me and literally says, Dad.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a trader. I'm a trader.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually very funny. Okay, just wanted to share
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  Speaker 2: that story with you. I don't think I've ever shared
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  Speaker 2: that before. Okay, So anyway, welcome to Welcome back from
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  Speaker 2: Canterbury and of course the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. All right,
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  Speaker 2: enough of that, all these ridiculous factoids that no one
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  Speaker 2: cares about.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, and wow, all that off of a sweatshirt. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that was a lot of.
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  Speaker 2: Information from a sweatshirt, wasn't it. Yeah, yeah, I just
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  Speaker 2: thought I would share that. And Neil is not here today,
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  Speaker 2: but will Is will I lost to your video.
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  Speaker 1: That's why.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good morning. There you were smiling, happy. You know,
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  Speaker 2: will Is one of those happy, happy people. You never
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  Speaker 2: noticed that their special needs people are always very happy.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't look that up, by the way, There's just
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  Speaker 2: something about happy people, you know.
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  Speaker 1: They're Yeah, they're just happy people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's okay, and you are and you are okay,
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  Speaker 2: fair enough, you guys, ready to do it? Oh, what
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  Speaker 2: a day for news it is today, it is time
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  Speaker 2: for Handle on the News on a Tuesday morning, January sixth,
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  Speaker 2: with Amy O'Neil, who's back next week, and me lead story. Well,
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  Speaker 2: yesterday as we went on the air, we were waiting
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  Speaker 2: for Maduro and his wife to be transported to the facility,
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  Speaker 2: the confinement facility, and then go into court. And he
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  Speaker 2: was helicoptered and then driven into court where he pled
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  Speaker 2: not guilty. And interesting he is maintaining I tell you,
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  Speaker 2: he is maintaining his not only his innocence, but that
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  Speaker 2: he still is the president of Venezuela, which put in
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  Speaker 2: a whole different legal category about how the and I
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  Speaker 2: in the States grabbed him, captured him. He says, it's
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  Speaker 2: a kidnapping and extra judicial kidnapping, and so.
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  Speaker 1: Right now the plea is not guilty.
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  Speaker 2: I to see the video as he's being marched in,
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  Speaker 2: he's in handcuffs and as he's walking, of course surrounded
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  Speaker 2: by more security than you can imagine. And he said
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  Speaker 2: happy New Year, Happy new Year to everybody as he
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  Speaker 2: passes in handcuffs.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be very interesting today.
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  Speaker 2: At eight point thirty, we're going to have Michael Zwieback,
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  Speaker 2: who is a friend of mine and also a federal
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  Speaker 2: criminal justice defense attorney. The guy knows this stuff cold
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  Speaker 2: because it's going to be his equivalent that is going
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  Speaker 2: to be bringing Maduro to trial. And so what Michael
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  Speaker 2: does is he does this. And so I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: have him on for a couple of segments to explain
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  Speaker 2: what the next steps are that Maduro's and his wife's
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  Speaker 2: going to see, and then a couple of minutes about
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  Speaker 2: juror stiction, because that's something that's a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: because here we say or here we have, according to
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  Speaker 2: Maduro and a lot of Americans saying this was an
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  Speaker 2: illegal invasion of a foreign country, a sovereign country, to
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  Speaker 2: grab the leader, the elect while the elected. The argument
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  Speaker 2: there is was he elected? Was he not elected? But man,
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  Speaker 2: that just put the whole world in turmoil. So that's
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  Speaker 2: coming up. At eight thirty.
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  Speaker 4: This morning, Senator Mark Kelly in the crosshairs. Secretary of
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  Speaker 4: State our Defense Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is taking
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  Speaker 4: action to punish Senator Mark Kelly, who is a retired
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  Speaker 4: Navy captain, by moving to cut his retirement pay. Why
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  Speaker 4: because he was one of the senators who put out
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  Speaker 4: that video. He and the other Democratic lawmakers told US
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  Speaker 4: service members to refuse illegal orders. Kelly responded later yesterday morning,
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  Speaker 4: saying he will not be intimidated and intends to fight it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, a couple of things. First of all, does the
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  Speaker 2: Defense Secretary have a right to do this? Yes, the
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  Speaker 2: Defense Secretary has a right. Does he have a right
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  Speaker 2: to do this for political gain, for strictly political a
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  Speaker 2: political issue. He does not, and which means that I
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  Speaker 2: think Hexseeth is going to lose.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the defenses.
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  Speaker 2: That Kelly is going to have is what I did
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  Speaker 2: is I put on a video language right out of
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  Speaker 2: the Uniform Code of the Uniform Code of a Criminal Justice,
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  Speaker 2: I think is what it's called. And that's the code section,
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  Speaker 2: the federal code section that controls the military, which is
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  Speaker 2: different than the civilian code. And it is and he
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  Speaker 2: is saying right there, because according to the Uniform Code,
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  Speaker 2: you can't do an illegal act. You as matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to not listen to an act that is illegal.
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  Speaker 1: Order that is illegal.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, saying that to everybody in the military,
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  Speaker 2: you cannot follow an illegal order is not illegal. Hexeth
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  Speaker 2: that is sedition. You're being a trader when you say that. Well, uh, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you know, fair enough, I'm a trader when I say
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  Speaker 2: the speed limit is sixty five miles an hour. No,
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  Speaker 2: you're being a trader because what you're saying is, uh, well, that's.
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  Speaker 1: A stupid analogy that went no place.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's just you know, sometimes I even impress myself
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  Speaker 2: with the stupidity.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, shots or not.
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  Speaker 4: The CDC has reduced the number of vaccines routinely recommended
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  Speaker 4: for all children from seventeen to eleven. On the new schedule,
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  Speaker 4: vaccines that had previously been recommended for all children, like RSV,
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  Speaker 4: hepatitis A and B, meningitis, and even seasonal flu, are
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  Speaker 4: now recommended only for those at high risk or after
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  Speaker 4: consultation with their doctor. It's a category called shared decision making.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, this is part of Health Secretary Robert F.
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  Speaker 4: Kennedy Junior's plans to change the way vaccines are handed out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, mister anti vaccine Jim Keeney. I talked to
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  Speaker 2: Jim last night. He's going to be with us tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: and talk about some of the issues that are going
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  Speaker 2: on with the CDC and some budget cuts and what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to be me having a great time
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  Speaker 2: about joking about him killing people. Well he probably will,
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  Speaker 2: but we're definitely going to talk about that. And now,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, okay, and right now, let's calendar this,
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  Speaker 2: because this is handle prognosticating on a Tuesday morning, January sixth,
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  Speaker 2: before the Trump administration is out of office, any parent
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  Speaker 2: or any doctor giving a kid any vaccine will get
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  Speaker 2: twenty years to life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you they're.
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  Speaker 2: So you both look at me like I'm crazy. That
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  Speaker 2: is a political statement, Okay. That is me referring to
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  Speaker 2: the fact that we've got a Department of Health and
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  Speaker 2: Human Services under RFK Junior that is completely anti vaccine,
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  Speaker 2: that it's all autism, and we're telling me we're not
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  Speaker 2: moving in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, maybe not twenty years to life.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, maybe that's somewhat hyperbolic, but you get my point.
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  Speaker 4: Hilton Ice is out agents. US Department of Homeland Securities
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  Speaker 4: accused Hilton Hotels of carrying out a coordinated campaign to
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  Speaker 4: refuse rooms to ICE agents in Minneapolis. They posted on
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  Speaker 4: x showing screenshots of emails from what appears to be
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  Speaker 4: the Hampton Inn in Layfield, Minnesota. In the email, it says,
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  Speaker 4: after further investigation, we have found information about immigration work
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  Speaker 4: connected with your name, and we will be canceling your
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  Speaker 4: upcoming reservation.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think they got it wrong.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a memo that said the ice
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  Speaker 2: machine down the hall is no longer available.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that didn't work either.
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  Speaker 2: You know, this is I'm off to a very bad
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  Speaker 2: start this morning, okay, And there's yeah, move on. And
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  Speaker 2: what happened is you've got Hilton's saying, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: it's not us, and second of all, you've got I
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  Speaker 2: believe the owner of the hotel or motel because these
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  Speaker 2: are all franchises for the most part, saying oh no, no,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to straighten that out.
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  Speaker 1: And so no ice for you.
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  Speaker 3: A Disney disaster, Oh god, Bill, you're going to love
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  Speaker 3: this one.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to love it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So some people were in line at Indiana Jones, the
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  Speaker 4: ride at Disneyland Park, and apparently there were some people
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  Speaker 4: who they're calling them line cutters. So it's an ongoing
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  Speaker 4: problem actually that people like hold spots and then other
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  Speaker 4: people come and catch up with their group that I
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  Speaker 4: don't personally have a problem with it.
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  Speaker 2: But okay, So what happens when when you see that happening,
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  Speaker 2: someone cuts line in front of you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they're not really cutting, They're going to catch up
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  Speaker 4: with their group, right, And I've done it before, like
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  Speaker 4: I had I had to go to the bathroom and
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  Speaker 4: I knew that I was going to be in line
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  Speaker 4: for an hour.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, can you all catch up with you?
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  Speaker 3: And most people are very cool about it. Some people aren't.
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  Speaker 4: Some people get out of, you know, get bent out
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  Speaker 4: of or they see like a group of ten cutting
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  Speaker 4: to catch up with their group as opposed to like
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  Speaker 4: one person. I think that's anyway, that's what kind of happened.
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  Speaker 4: And apparently a fight broke out Sergeant Sutter with Anaheim
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  Speaker 4: Police as there was a confrontation about cutting in line
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  Speaker 4: and a physical altercation ensued. One guy had a gash
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  Speaker 4: in his head. So, I mean, like a fight broke
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  Speaker 4: out over it. So and then Disney has added to
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  Speaker 4: its website a reminder to visitors to treat others with respect.
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  Speaker 1: The happiest place on Earth.
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  Speaker 3: It is the happiest place on no I understand.
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  Speaker 2: Especially happy when you're waiting two and a half hours
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  Speaker 2: to go on a ride at last thirty seconds. I
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  Speaker 2: certainly understand that, because that makes people very, very happy.
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  Speaker 3: The lines were really long.
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  Speaker 4: We were there on Saturday, and it was like the
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  Speaker 4: very end of Christmas, so it was very crowded, but
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  Speaker 4: it was still we had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess some people just enjoy standing in line
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  Speaker 2: for two hours.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a thing.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they like spending time with their friends and loved ones,
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  Speaker 4: and that's what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know how to respond to that, because
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  Speaker 2: that's so that's so foreign to me.
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  Speaker 1: Bright Let's move on, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Automakers in for a rough ride. GM and several others
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  Speaker 4: have reported year end sales slumps, a sign that US
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  Speaker 4: auto sales will flow this year as consumers push back
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  Speaker 4: on high prices. Of course, the average price of a
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  Speaker 4: car now fifty thousand dollars. GM is the largest automaker
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  Speaker 4: in the US. It says it sales fell seven percent
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  Speaker 4: in the last quarter of twenty twenty five. Honda, Hyundai,
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  Speaker 4: Mazda Nissan also said their sales fell toward the end
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  Speaker 4: of the year. Toyota it's an eight percent increase in
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  Speaker 4: sales for the fourth quarter, but they said that they're
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  Speaker 4: prepared for a bruising year ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And it was all in evs because the
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  Speaker 2: tax break went away of seventy five hundred dollars towards
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  Speaker 2: the car. That's all gone, so and people don't have
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  Speaker 2: money or they don't have enough to afford a car,
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  Speaker 2: which is now fifty thousand dollars average in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Things are tough, and I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a tough year. That's just my take on it.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of economists who agree with me
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  Speaker 2: or I agree with them, and then there are others
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  Speaker 2: that say we're gonna do just fine.
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  Speaker 1: Stock market is on top of the world.
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  Speaker 3: I'm rating over forty nine thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it doesn't stop. It's nothing is getting in
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  Speaker 1: the way.
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  Speaker 2: This is one of those bubbles that just keeps on
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  Speaker 2: getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and apparently we'll never burst.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Vice president targeted. A man's been taken into custody
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  Speaker 4: outside the home in Ohio. A Vice President JD. Vance
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  Speaker 4: Secret Service picked him up. Apparently the guy, uh just
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  Speaker 4: after midnight on Monday morning, broke some windows at the
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  Speaker 4: Vice president's home. No one was there at the time.
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  Speaker 4: Vance and his family were not in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm, yeah, I wonder if that is a federal crime.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just curious is breaking into an elected officials home
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  Speaker 2: or damaging an elected officials home. I mean, certainly it's
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  Speaker 2: a local crime or a state county crime.
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  Speaker 1: I get that, but I'm just curious about that. I
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  Speaker 1: should looked that up.
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  Speaker 4: But well, it's super scary though, because remember the lawmakers
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  Speaker 4: in was it Minnesota or Michigan that they broke in
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  Speaker 4: and killed them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's a little scarier.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, and the guy is lucky as he's walking
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  Speaker 2: in because there's Secret Service detail there. From what I understand,
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  Speaker 2: he's lucky he wasn't killed and shot by the Secret Service.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, it's a super flu A massive spike in
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  Speaker 4: flu activity nationwide has been reported by the CDC. In
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  Speaker 4: just one week between December twentieth and twenty seventh, the
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  Speaker 4: country saw a thirty three percent increase in people testing
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  Speaker 4: positive for flu. In mid December, before the peak colony season,
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  Speaker 4: only six states were considered to have high flu activity.
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  Speaker 4: We likely haven't reached the peak yet, according to the CDC, California,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, is not one of the states who
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  Speaker 4: have high flu activity, but that could change.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have moderate activity relative to the other This
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  Speaker 2: is going to be one hell of a flu season
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure we're going to talk to Jim about
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  Speaker 2: that too. And this is not a vaccine issue, although
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  Speaker 2: because even if you took the flu vaccine, which I did,
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  Speaker 2: did I take vaccines all the time? It really isn't
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  Speaker 2: that effective against this variant.
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  Speaker 4: Minneapolis is next about two thousand federal agents apparently being
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  Speaker 4: deployed to Minnesota. It's part of the Trump administration's efforts
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  Speaker 4: to crack down on immigration. That's according to a couple
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  Speaker 4: law enforcement officials who talked to CNN, And all of
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  Speaker 4: this is happening where they're beefing up the immigration enforcement
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  Speaker 4: as the city and its officials continue to reel from
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  Speaker 4: a welfare fraud scandal that's reaching fever pitch. The mobilization
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  Speaker 4: of more agents to Minneapolis comes as Minnesota Governor Tim Walls,
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  Speaker 4: who has been very opposed to Trump's deployment of troops
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  Speaker 4: into cities in the US.
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  Speaker 3: Dropped out of his for re election yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's that tough over there and the president
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  Speaker 2: is And I don't know why this this scandal, which
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  Speaker 2: has to be investigated and should be investigated because it's
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: in the billions of dollars, how that translates into troops
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: now being brought into Minneapolis.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Federal troops.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: I think it's because the scandal centers around Somali immigrants.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Well, that was the other issue, yes, and it was
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: by the way, there's no evidence that we just had
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: to do with Somali day daycare centers. But again, I
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: have no problem with the investigation federal and state. But
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I don't see how that translates because there is no
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: evidence of this massive Somali plot. And how is that
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: a Somali invasion of daycare operators. I don't know what
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: that means or that was even the well it wasn't
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: even quoted as saying, we're in here to make sure
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: that these the invasion of the Somali day daycare center
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: operators have to be to a stop. And by the way,
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: the courts have not been happy with the administration on
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the troops being brought to various cities, not in Chicago anymore.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Court said no to that one. And we're looking at
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: what's happening in Los Angeles and Portland, so we'll see
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: which way it goes.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Coming in is going to cost you.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Speaking of immigration, Trump administration has added seven countries, including
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: five in Africa, to a list of nations whose passport
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: holders will be required to post bonds of up to
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: fifteen thousand dollars to apply for a visa to come
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: into the US. It's one of the latest efforts by
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: the Trump administration to titan requirements for entry into the US,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: including requiring citizens from all countries that require visas to
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: sit for in person interviews, to show their social media
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: histories for years, and also talk about their and their
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: family's previous travel and living in arrangements.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It's going to make it a little tough, isn't it
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: for travelers.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: You're going to see all of a sudden, many fewer
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: travelers coming in from these specific countries and their country
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: has never even heard of Mauritania, Saint Domet Principal Tanzania.
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: We know about Gambia, yeah, Mala, Malawi, yeah, Zambia. I
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: mean just these countries.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Well, there's also on Swana, turk Mekistan.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Yaybemerkistan yeah yeah, Namibia yeah, which.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: Uh, I just like to say, Namibia.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I know, it's just just fascinating stuff. So anyway, it's
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: going to make it more difficult for these people. Posting
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: a bond doesn't mean you write a check fifteen thousand dollars.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: It means you put up assets to cover it. With
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: a bond company or some bond organization, you won't.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Be seeing many of these.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Uh. You know, those Papua New Guineans are just you
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: just don't want them anywhere near this country. Man, It's
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: just uh, I have a problem with Papo and New Guineans.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Why is that? Well, because they eat people, that's why.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Is that a Joe Biden reference?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, actually no, I think that's where the headhunters come from,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: is Papo and New Guinea.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, I know, But.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Didn't Biden say one time something about headhunters or something?
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: I have to look it up.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember. Okay, all right, moving on? Uh
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: are we taking a break?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Apparently we are.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Now let's do one more story.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Oh well, yeah, some baseball players are possibly stuck.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: The Venezuelan Winter Baseball League has suspended play because of
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: the United States coming in and taking out Nicholas Maduro
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: and Caracas. That leaves a bunch of players kind of
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: in limbo. That group includes Dodgers reliever Edgardo Enriquez. He's
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: from Venezuela the Dodgers. He had been pitching in Caracas,
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: but it's not clear if he is still there or
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: if he's back with the team.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: But they're saying he's not the only one. There are
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: a lot of Venezuelan.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Players who are stuck because of the travel restrictions and
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: visaos and all that.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows what's going on.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: We know that the US government went in and captured
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the manager of the team and immediately brought him for
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: trial in the United States.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: That we know, But what we don't know is what's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: going to happen to the players.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: I don't think the manager was taken into custody.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Oh did I read that wrong?
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: Don't expect to not pay. The Trump administration will soon
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: beginning begin garnishing wages of student loan borrowers who are
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: in default. The Education Department says it has sent about
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: a thousand borrowers notices, and more notices are going to
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: be coming each month. Millions of people are considered in
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: default of their student loans, meaning that they are two
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: hundred and seventy days past due on payments. The department
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: says it'll start collection activities only after student and parent
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: borrowers have been provided sufficient notice and opportunity to repay
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: the loans.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, let's look at both sides of this.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: If they are not, if the government does not go
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: against these folks who are in default, does that mean
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: that they can forever not pay their loans back. Under
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the Biden administration, as far as he was concerned to
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: paying these loans back, we're not a big deal. Obviously,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: give the students a break as much as much as
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: you can. And now you know the Trump administration saying, well,
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: hang on a minute. You guys borrowed the money and
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: there's been a moratorium get it because of the pandemic.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Pandemic is gone, and now you owe the money.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot to be said. I mean,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I borrowed money to go to school. I paid it
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: all back. It took me ten years, and I went
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: ahead and paid it back. So there are those of
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: us who borrowed the money say hey, why do we
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: have to pay it? Why did we have to pay
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the money back and you don't now. The other argument
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: on the other side is, yeah, when you went to school, Bill,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I love it, and talk about me and the third person,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: we are not amused.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: When you went to school, handle tuition wasn't fifty thousand
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: dollars a.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Year for a four year private college, so education wasn't
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: as expensive, and the employment landscape was much much different.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: So I don't know. I have mixed feelies about it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: But the bottom line is, you borrow money, you got
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: to pay it back, you know, I mean, welcome to
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: a capitalistic system where you borrow.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Money you have to pay it back.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Well, And it's also, in my humble opinion, inequitable for
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: everybody who wants equality and equity and all that, because
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: the people who are getting out of the loans are
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the people who went to college. So if you you
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, and then we're expected to help
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: pay the college tuition.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I can't effectively that that is the case.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, when you talk about an inequality, I go out
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: and buy a house and I'm going to pay six
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: and a half percent. But wait a second, you want
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: a house three years ago and you paid three percent
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: for the money. That's unfair. Therefore I should have the
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: same break. The world doesn't work that way. And one
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: of the basic tenets of capitalism, which is what we
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: are predicated on this country, is capitalistic, is you borrow money,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: you pay it back, you cut a deal, you shake hands,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: you sign a document, you've got to pay it back,
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: and so you know, and the world has changed.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: But that's the way it goes. You know, the world changes.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You've got my daughter who is finishing up her education
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: in computer engineering, who is now looking around and she's
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: stuck between a rock a hard place.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But there ain't in no jobs. I go, Yeah, the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: world is different. Okay, moving on.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: Five years, still more to say, of course, it's the
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: five year anniversary of the January sixth attack on the
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: US Capitol. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have now
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: released two new reports that take a look at the
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: aftermath of the attack during the first year of President
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Trump's second term. The reports document Trump's decision to pardon
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: nearly everybody who was convicted of the January sixth attacks,
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: and also mass firings of Justice Department officials who prosecuted
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: people who participated in January sixth. Representative Jamie Raskin, who
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: is the committee's ranking Menmber says the pardons are a
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: for people of a private militia of proven street fighters
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: that represent a nightmare for American public safety.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Well, I think the President described January sixth perfectly when
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: he said, and I quote, it was a day of love. Okay,
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: your definition of love may be a little bit different
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: than my definition of love, but so be it.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Cyberbulliefs senced. A Paris court has found ten people guilty
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: of cyber harassing the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: They spread false claims that she is a transgender woman
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: and was born male. The couple is also twenty four
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: years apart. He's twenty four years younger than her. So
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: that's drawn a lot of criticism that was ignored for years,
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: but now they're kind of challenging that in court as well.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Good for them. Good for them.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: By the way, this was a criminal court case in
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Paris that does not include a civil case, and I
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: don't know if they have the same rules as we
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: do for defamation over there. But you know, these people
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: are nuts. I mean what they're arguing. One of one
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: of the allegations, what is her name was actually Jean
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Michel Trugneau or trug oh trug now and well that
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: said has your brother's name, and they're saying, oh, that's
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: her name. So it's kind of stupid. They should they
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: should nail these people because that is defamation. Let's beyond
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: just a political shot of this, oh New York story
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: which to show you how crazy New Yorkers are.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, see, it can't get you on the train anymore,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: but it can get you some cash. The MTA Metropolitan
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: Transportation Authority has discontinued the use of Metro cards. Of course,
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: it's the little credit card looking thing that gets you
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: on the train that you buy and loaded up with cash. Well,
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: they stopped using it and now have contactless tap and
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: go payments. So metro cards are no longer available to
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: be purchased through the MTA, but you can buy either
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: and new or even used metro cards online. They're going
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: from between six dollars and five thousand dollars on eBay
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: and resale site.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah go figure. I mean, you just never know, all right.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: One last story before we bail New money.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: One of the coins created to commemorate the United States
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary will start. It's actually in
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: circulation now. They started putting them out yesterday, the US
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Mint announced on social media. The Mayflower Compact Quarter is
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: the first of five new quarter dollar designs for twenty
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: twenty six. The collectible features two pilgrims, a man and
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: a woman, under a banner that reads e pluribus union,
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: which translates to out of many one.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were supposed to be the Mayflower itself and
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: on the bridge to be someone waving that looked very
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: similar to Donald Trump in the original design of the coin.
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: And then you have one the Revolutionary War quarter, where
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: one of the great generals of the Revolutionary War was
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: a guy by the name of Trump, the Declaration of Independence,
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: and the US Constitution quarter, where of course we know
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: he signed the Constitution, and interestingly enough, one commemorating the
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Gettysburg Address where President Trump was the guest of honor. Okay,
• 31:21
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