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LETS GO THURSDAY ! COLD WARNING, State, National, World headlines, Flu Shots and more! · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: By English stand English standing stand thinking.
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Speaker 2: All right, here's the live shot from v trans of
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Speaker 2: the Big Road this morning, eighty nine in Hartford, looking
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Speaker 2: pretty clear, brookfields up ye there, little frosty and cold
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Speaker 2: read about twenty six degrees right now in the Granite City.
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Speaker 2: There's another shot at Hartford, Brickfield, Bethel and exit ten
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Speaker 2: Waterberry where if you notice the sun is it my
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Speaker 2: imagination or is this sun seeming anyways.
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Speaker 3: To come up a little earlier. I don't know. Let's
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Speaker 3: show you again right there. Look at that?
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Speaker 2: Isn't that beautiful shot? Exit ten water Bery. Good morning, everybody.
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Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're with me. I'm Jade Green. You
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Speaker 2: There is so much happening right now. I'm gonna give
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Speaker 2: you a heavy weather forecast here with lots of details
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Speaker 2: and before are I even go there though. Glad that
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Speaker 2: tractor trailer jackknife from early this morning is cleaned up
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Speaker 2: on the interstate. Things were closed down there for quite
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Speaker 2: a while. That was earlier this morning. Real early. Also
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Speaker 2: a note here that they're going to be paving or
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Speaker 2: attempting to pave Elm Street right here in Barry this
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Speaker 2: morning and during the day today, So that's going to
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Speaker 2: be closed, passing the Elks Lodge, So just avoid the
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Speaker 2: whole area used Jefferson, use whatever you got, but get
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Speaker 2: around that spot and it's going to be closed. As
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Speaker 2: you know, there was a water main break there a
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Speaker 2: while ago, so keep that mind. Spread the word. We
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Speaker 2: are seventeen days away from the Super Bowl. What's on
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Speaker 2: the menu at your house? That's going to be something
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be talking about here over the next
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Speaker 2: couple of days. What you're cooking up for the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it's a gathering at your house. I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: what's on my menu as as we push forward. Haven't
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Speaker 2: fully determined that yet, but I'm working on it. We're
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Speaker 2: twenty three days away from Valentine's Day. Wow again, details
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Speaker 2: on the forecast here in just a second. Top to bottom.
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Speaker 2: Birthdays today Caitlin Clark w NBA All Star of course,
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Speaker 2: twenty four years old. Guy Fieri is fifty eight. Celebrity
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Speaker 2: chef GE loves him. Don't let them kid you. DJ
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Speaker 2: jazzy Jeff. Remember parents just don't understand, of course you don't.
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Speaker 2: Sixty one today sixty one, same number for Diane, Diane Lane,
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Speaker 2: Linda Player, sixty seven, the superstar from the Exorcist, the
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Speaker 2: old school speedster on the Flash, John Wesley Ship seventy
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Speaker 2: one today, Teddy Gentry from Alabama seventy four. And this
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Speaker 2: one might be painful for you to hear, ladies. Steve Perry,
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Speaker 2: the original singer from Journey seventy seven. You remember Steve
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Speaker 2: Perry in those tight jeans back in the late seventies
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Speaker 2: early eighties. Of course you do.
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Speaker 3: Again.
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Speaker 2: We're at twenty six right now here in the Granite City,
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Speaker 2: we have this Arctic blast and this is all this
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Speaker 2: detail is from NBC five. The Arctic Blast, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what the hell we call it, the polar vortex
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Speaker 2: or whatever the hell is cold expected to bring near
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Speaker 2: record cold this weekend and and New York some of
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Speaker 2: the coldest air, and I mean this is right off
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Speaker 2: the NBC Channel five page, some of the coldest air
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Speaker 2: in several years. Saturday and Sunday. By late Friday night
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Speaker 2: into early Saturday, overnight low is can range from twenty
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Speaker 2: below zero.
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Speaker 3: To zero.
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Speaker 2: That's air temp, while windshills going to be hovering anywhere,
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Speaker 2: depending on where you are, from ten to thirty five
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Speaker 2: degrees below zero. Yeah, higher elevations even colder. So you know,
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Speaker 2: Friday night, Saturday night, don't go snowshoeing up on top
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Speaker 2: of the mountain. Okay, midnight skiing probably not the best idea.
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Speaker 2: Saturday is going to be brutally cold. We have the
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Speaker 2: basketball tournament this weekend on Saturday and Sunday, so we're
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Speaker 2: gonna be out and about and running around.
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Speaker 3: That's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 2: Kids, Maybe if your parents aren't paying attention, don't when
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Speaker 2: you arrive at these basketball tournaments. Don't get out of
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Speaker 2: the car with your shorts on and make it from
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Speaker 2: the car to the gym on Saturday or Sunday. Put
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Speaker 2: some sweatpants on. D time high tempts staying below zero
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Speaker 2: all day on Saturday, wind chills ranging anywhere from thirty
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Speaker 2: below to ten below. Dangerous to be outside for extended
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Speaker 2: pers of time. I'm paraphrasing here, and I'm adding in
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Speaker 2: my own stuff here. Stupid to be outside for even
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Speaker 2: a short period of time if you're exposing skin. So again,
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Speaker 2: don't be running around with the shorts on it.
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Speaker 3: It's just not smart.
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Speaker 2: Although I am going to tell you about my friend
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Speaker 2: are young here and it's just a little bit and
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Speaker 2: what he's up to stand by for that. Saturday night,
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Speaker 2: winds are going to ease up a little bit, skies
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Speaker 2: are going to be clear. Temperature is going to drop
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Speaker 2: real hard. Overnight low is expected to fall between twenty
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Speaker 2: to five below. That's air temp. Wind chills ranging from
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Speaker 2: thirty below zero, maybe forty below if you're in a
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Speaker 2: little elevation, that's the price that you pay for that
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Speaker 2: beautiful view, Stacy. We're wondering what you got down in
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Speaker 2: Fort Pierce, Florida.
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Speaker 3: This morning.
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Speaker 2: Sunday morning is still going to be extremely cold. Again,
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Speaker 2: this is all from NBC five. They do such a
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Speaker 2: great job, by the way, with the weather. I'm always
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Speaker 2: paying attention to what they're posting. Thame's going to be
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Speaker 2: ranging a Sunday morning from thirty below zero in the
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Speaker 2: mountains to fifteen below zero in the valleys. Windchill's going
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Speaker 2: to be between thirty and fifteen below. This again is
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Speaker 2: Sunday morning. By Sunday afternoon, tem's going to begin to
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Speaker 2: recover slightly, making it above zero in the valleys Mountains
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Speaker 2: still going to be around ten below zero and a
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Speaker 2: tempts expected to remain colder than normal into early next week. Again,
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Speaker 2: we are at twenty six degrees enjoying the warmth here
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Speaker 2: in Barry. Snowshowers possible around two o'clock this afternoon. We're
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Speaker 2: going to make it up to about thirty three tonight,
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Speaker 2: partly cloudy snow showers fifteen, Tomorrow, cloudy snow showers twenty
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Speaker 2: and that's you know. The deep free starts out Friday night.
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Speaker 2: Saturday sunshine and negative one for the daytime high Sunday,
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Speaker 2: cloudy skies, snow showers and anywhere between five and eight
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Speaker 2: degrees on Sunday. My friend, are young, our young vendor
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Speaker 2: Shoot my buddy from Holland who is the iceman of
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Speaker 2: the North Country right here in Vermont. I think he's
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Speaker 2: down Woodstock Way. I'm trying to reach him this morning,
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Speaker 2: but he's a cold plunger. And if you haven't yet
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Speaker 2: visited the Facebook page Arctic Bliss or our Young vandor
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Speaker 2: shut on his personal page on Facebook, you ought to,
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Speaker 2: even if just for entertainment's sake, This guy is first
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Speaker 2: of all, He's an incredible dude, so inspiring, so motivating.
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Speaker 2: He has a pond in his backyard and he goes
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Speaker 2: out and smashes a big hole in the pond, takes
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Speaker 2: his clothes off, well most of his clothes, I think,
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Speaker 2: and cold plunches all the time and reaps the benefits
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Speaker 2: the dopamine dump, the adrenaline hit, the lack of inflammation
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Speaker 2: in his body, the mental toughness, the attitude. Everything that
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Speaker 2: he does before, during, and after cold plunching is amazing.
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Speaker 2: This guy is real. He knows a lot about it.
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Speaker 2: He's getting into waterfalls during the winter. He does ice
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Speaker 2: bathing everywhere and brings the community. And he's having a
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Speaker 2: h an ice bathing party on Saturday that he is
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Speaker 2: so graciously invited me to, maybe knowing that I've got
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Speaker 2: to go pro maybe And he's having a few people
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Speaker 2: over and yeah, they're gonna have a you know, they're
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Speaker 2: gonna have a fire going, they're gonna be serving up
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Speaker 2: hot sighter afterwards. But he's gonna have several people in
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Speaker 2: his pond this Saturday, Saturday morning. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: the temperature is. He usually goes live. Uh, I may
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Speaker 2: be there kind of depends on on my life in
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Speaker 2: my schedule, I would like to be if I can,
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Speaker 2: you bet I'm gonna film it incredible. Listen, here's an
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Speaker 2: idea of something you can do anytime tonight, Tomorrow, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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Speaker 2: If you are looking to escape the cold, get to
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Speaker 2: the Capitol Theater or the Paramount Theater. I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 2: you what's playing here, but I'll tell you first before
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Speaker 2: I even go an inch further. The heat's on in
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Speaker 2: the building. The heats on. It is a fantastic way
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Speaker 2: to escape reality. Enjoy some popcorn, some concessions, relax and
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Speaker 2: enjoy a movie at the Capitol Today the twenty second
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Speaker 2: of January. Avatar Fire and ash hamn It Marty Supreme,
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Speaker 2: Let's see the Coral and the Housemate at the Paramount
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Speaker 2: twin right here in Berry. They've got let's see not
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Speaker 2: exactly sure, I think their page might be down for
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Speaker 2: the Paramount, but I know that they've got movies that
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Speaker 2: are going to be playing this weekend too, right here
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Speaker 2: in Berry. So please get yourself out and go enjoy
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Speaker 2: a movie. FGB Theaters dot com to get your tickets
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Speaker 2: in advance. Skip the line, Yeah do it in advance, Facebook, Instagram,
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Speaker 2: Get on their page. See what's playing, See what the
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Speaker 2: listings are. Community Calendar. We've got bingo at the Canadian
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Speaker 2: Club tonight at seven o'clock. There's another way to get
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Speaker 2: out of the cold and go have some fun. Friday Tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: seven o'clock doors opening at the Barry Elks Lodge for
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Speaker 2: Barry's Rock and Soul Chorus Rock City, Who's going to
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Speaker 2: be performing and keeping things hot seven to thirty show.
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Speaker 2: Twenty bucks is the suggested donation at the door to
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Speaker 2: support the Capstone Foodshelf. But you want to have some fun,
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Speaker 2: you want to hear some great music. They get the band,
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Speaker 2: they get the singers. It's amazing. If you've never experienced
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Speaker 2: Rock City, you ought to Tomorrow night again at the
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Speaker 2: Barry Elks Lodge. It's on the front page of the World.
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Speaker 2: And looking ahead here Montpilier Winterfest January thirty first and
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Speaker 2: February first, That whole weekend is going to be designed
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Speaker 2: for the family in Montpelier for Winterfest. Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, puzzles,
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Speaker 2: live music, indoor activities, horse drawn wagon rides. I'm just
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Speaker 2: looking at the at the page here, ice skating, fat biking,
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Speaker 2: sledding at locations across Montpellier. They get a sledding party
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Speaker 2: at the country Club Road from two thirty until four,
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Speaker 2: Ice sculptures on the lawn at the Kellogg Hupboard Library,
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Speaker 2: plus the Capitol Show Place Theater, has movies and fun
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Speaker 2: planned for Friday, live music at Hugo's Bar and Grill
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Speaker 2: and charlios. It's just gonna be a great weekend. And
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Speaker 2: then Sunday, February first, this is something you should get
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Speaker 2: on your calendar. Ice on Fire hosted by Altogether Now
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Speaker 2: at the country Club Road from two to five, with
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Speaker 2: the parade, the storytelling, the games, the performances at the bonfire,
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Speaker 2: lots of winter magic. It's Winterfest and look it's cold,
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Speaker 2: we might as well get out and try and enjoy
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Speaker 2: it too. The full schedule of events and the updates
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Speaker 2: Montpiliarlive dot com. I'm going to post that into the
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Speaker 2: comments here this morning so that you can get dialed
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Speaker 2: in and if you want to go to that something
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Speaker 2: that's great. Looking ahead to February Night to Shine February thirteenth,
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Speaker 2: Friday Night at the Buryoux Lodge. I was told yesterday
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Speaker 2: by Trey. One hundred honored guests are going to be there.
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Speaker 2: One hundred. That's a record, and check this out. And
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Speaker 2: we've been trying to push for volunteers and help them
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Speaker 2: out with this. Tim Tebow Night to Shine. One hundred
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Speaker 2: and eighty volunteers are registered. That's amazing. This is going
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Speaker 2: to be one incredible night for so many people. Amy's
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Speaker 2: Armoir is in need of pay it Forward donations, by
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Speaker 2: the way for Night to Shine for guests to cover
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Speaker 2: the cost of their formalware. So you know, if you
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Speaker 2: can help out with that, that would be great. It's
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Speaker 2: really easy. You just simply go into Amy's Armoir right
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Speaker 2: here on North Main Street and say, hey, I'd love to,
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Speaker 2: you know, give ten bucks or whatever to the pay
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Speaker 2: It Forward fund to help out anyone who is, you know,
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Speaker 2: looking to get some formalware. So it's a great thing.
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Speaker 2: I love it. I love the fact that Amy's arm
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Speaker 2: More does this. I love the fact that the Faith
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Speaker 2: Community Church right here in Barry is hosting this now
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Speaker 2: for what I think it's year number four if I'm
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Speaker 2: not mistaken. But Trey and Robin and Amy and all
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Speaker 2: of the volunteers, all of the businesses and organizations in
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Speaker 2: and around central Vermont that come together for this one night,
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Speaker 2: for one hundred folks, to give them one amazing evening
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Speaker 2: to show them love and appreciation and mostly love. Is
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Speaker 2: just incredible. I wouldn't miss.
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Speaker 3: It for the world. And of course I'll be there
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Speaker 3: with my buddy. Oh never have never missed.
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Speaker 2: One Facebook question of the day this morning, and I'm
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Speaker 2: going to see if if I can connect in here
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Speaker 2: with a friend of mine who can probably speak to this.
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Speaker 2: I know that there's a lot of us running around
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Speaker 2: right now with the flu, and it's from what I hear,
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Speaker 2: really bad. My question of the day this morning is
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Speaker 2: to flu vacs or not to flu vacs for you?
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Speaker 2: And I know the Vermont Department of Health and US
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Speaker 2: Department of Health and Human Services says that Vermont is
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Speaker 2: going to continue to follow its established childhood immunization schedule.
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Speaker 2: It was in the World newspaper they also caution on
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Speaker 2: and I think this is I think this is great
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Speaker 2: to say this on sharing or acting on unverified or
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Speaker 2: misleading health information. It is so important to think objectively
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Speaker 2: about this, make a decision on your own, maybe with
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Speaker 2: some chat with any school nurse, your pharmacist, pediatrician, someone
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Speaker 2: who is maybe dialed into some of the facts of
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Speaker 2: what's going on with this strain right now, and seeing
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Speaker 2: if I can sneak a friend of mine on who
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Speaker 2: got the vaccination and got the flu and got it good.
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Speaker 2: I mean he is, he's on the back side of it,
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Speaker 2: but he's lost his voice. He's lost his voice, poor dude, Devin.
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Speaker 2: And if I can get him on, I will. But man,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's it's such a hot button. And we
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Speaker 2: see everywhere Walgreens, Walmart, CVS, Kinney Drugs, we see everywhere
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Speaker 2: in the hospital free flu shots. What say you? And
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Speaker 2: many of you are like, oh, I'm not that's a
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Speaker 2: personal question. I'm not going anywhere near that one. And
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Speaker 2: that's fine. So, you know, I don't know. It's I
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Speaker 2: want to hear from you. Are you getting the flu
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Speaker 2: shot this year? And if so, why and if not why,
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Personal decision.
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Speaker 2: And respect those that are going to get the shot
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Speaker 2: or going to get the shot for their kids, and
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Speaker 2: respect those that don't. I know about this other string
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Speaker 2: that's that, this other variant that's that's going on. You know,
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Speaker 2: they do the best they can to try to predict
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Speaker 2: what it's going to be. And what I've heard, and
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Speaker 2: I don't, you know, it's just what i've heard seen Red,
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Speaker 2: is that the boat was kind of missed a little
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Speaker 2: bit on this one, and that several people that have
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Speaker 2: received the vaccination got the flu. Anyway, knock on wood,
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Speaker 2: I've been healthy so far, and I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of the you know, listen, definitely the furthest thing from
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Speaker 2: an expert on this stuff, but I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of it depends on how well you're taking care of yourself.
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Speaker 2: Are you running around with shorts and t shirt on
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Speaker 2: when you shouldn't be. Are you getting enough sleep? Are
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Speaker 2: you eating right? Are you you're or are you just
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Speaker 2: eating a bunch of crap? Are you drinking enough water?
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Speaker 2: Are you getting some exercise? Basic things here? And if
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Speaker 2: you're if you're not doing any of those things, I
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Speaker 2: don't know that the vaccination is going to prevent you
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Speaker 2: from getting sick, and you could start out as a
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Speaker 2: head cold and then go full whack into the flu.
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Speaker 3: Take care of yourself.
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow morning, Keith Cushman, our chief, is going to be
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Speaker 2: on the air with me. We are going to talk
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Speaker 2: about some safety tips that you need to consider going
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Speaker 2: into this weekend with this cold snap, UH, Department of
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Speaker 2: Safety everywhere across the whole state. Public works is going
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Speaker 2: to be busy, police, fire, first responders, emptis all that
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Speaker 2: city employees dealing with all things related to the cold.
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Speaker 2: Some tips for what you can do at home to
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Speaker 2: prevent freeze ups, frozen pipes and whatnot, we'll have that
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Speaker 2: for you. And yeah, and of course we're gonna have
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of fun too with Gee, we're gonna
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Speaker 2: have some laughs tomorrow morning. But we've got some serious
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Speaker 2: stuff to get to too. And I'll say I'll say
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Speaker 2: this and I'm gonna say it tomorrow morning too. Outside
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Speaker 2: of all of this stuff, probably one of the most
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Speaker 2: important things that you can do is pass on the
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Speaker 2: information that we've been sharing about the overnight shelters, the
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Speaker 2: warm shelters, and also taking care of your neighbors and
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Speaker 2: making sure that they're okay.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: And that that's something that I know that I sound
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Speaker 2: like a broken record with it. I say it all
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Speaker 2: the time, I say it every time it gets cold,
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Speaker 2: but I mean it. You just if you have a neighbor,
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Speaker 2: a friend that is vulnerable in any way, maybe they're disabled,
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Speaker 2: maybe maybe they're just elderly. You gotta connect with them,
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Speaker 2: maybe even today ahead of this and make sure that
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Speaker 2: they've they're gonna be okay during this cold you know,
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Speaker 2: tell them did open up their cabinets so that the
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Speaker 2: pipes can get more heat than they normally do. Warn
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Speaker 2: them about you know, space heaters and whatnot, electric blankets
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Speaker 2: being left on fire hazards. Berry City Police Department posted
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Speaker 2: up earlier this morning that today is Homelessness Awareness Day
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Speaker 2: and that ironically we're experiencing these brutal, frigid temperatures heading
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Speaker 2: into the weekend. So if you know, as it says here,
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Speaker 2: anyone who needs overnight shelter during these temperatures, please reach out.
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Speaker 2: Everyone deserves a safe and warm place to sleep. That
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Speaker 2: is test Tailor, by the way, also is going to
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Speaker 2: be joining me tomorrow morning by phone.
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Speaker 3: And it's going to be a busy day, it really is.
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Speaker 2: But we've got all of the shelter information that we've
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Speaker 2: been posting up and we encourage you to not only
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Speaker 2: give it a read, but also maybe maybe make something
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Speaker 2: and bring it over and donate it, or volunteer your
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Speaker 2: time in one of these overnight shelters if you can
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Speaker 2: they're going to be hopefully filled right up. The last
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Speaker 2: thing we want is for another tragedy to happen in
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Speaker 2: our community or any community anywhere where someone who is
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Speaker 2: vulnerable for whatever reason, it doesn't matter that they lose
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Speaker 2: their life. So think about this, okay, just have it
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Speaker 2: in your mind. In the Vermont headlines yesterday, does of
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Speaker 2: folks gathered at the state House to call for new
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Speaker 2: protections for Vermont's immigrant communities. The awareness campaign has been
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Speaker 2: dubbed the No Secret Police Campaign.
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Speaker 3: What do you think about this?
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Speaker 2: Organizers said they are advocating for more accountability and transparency
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Speaker 2: when it comes to enforcement operations in Vermont. This is
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Speaker 2: all over Channel five and WCAX. The gathering was a
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Speaker 2: partnership that includes the ACLU of Vermont Migrant Justice and
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Speaker 2: the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project. Legislators were there too as
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Speaker 2: part of this So interesting, what say you.
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Speaker 3: About it?
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Speaker 2: Vermont's unemployment rate, as I read in the World newspaper,
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Speaker 2: has increased to two point six percent just recently. By
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Speaker 2: the way, in the United States it's four point six percent. Well,
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Speaker 2: what do you think about? What do you think about that?
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Speaker 3: Is that?
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Speaker 2: Is that anything that's alarming? To you vermontors looking for work,
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Speaker 2: local businesses looking to hire, and the relationship between the two.
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Speaker 2: Just a couple of months ago, Vermont's labor force decreased
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Speaker 2: to around thirteen one hundred, or by around thirteen hundred.
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Speaker 2: Number of employed people decreased by just over fourteen hundred.
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Speaker 2: Department of Labor. Their website, labor dot Vermont dot gov
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Speaker 2: has info on job fares, employment opportunities, hiring events. All
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Speaker 2: of that encourage you to hop on have a look
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Speaker 2: at that. And you know, I don't know, were you
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Speaker 2: paying attention to the governor's State of the State address,
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Speaker 2: watching listening to any of that? Were you're paying attention to?
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Speaker 2: His nine point four billion dollar budget address Tuesday afternoon
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Speaker 2: touched on a lot of issues, of course, housing and education,
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Speaker 2: Public safety. Says he aims to fix Vermont's broken criminal
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Speaker 2: justice system in this session. I think it's going to
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Speaker 2: take a lot more than just this session. Call me crazy.
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Speaker 2: Says that he wants to crack down on juvenile offenders
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Speaker 2: and curbing repeat offenders. Said the criminal justice policies are
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Speaker 2: out of balance and that too long, offender's interests have
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Speaker 2: been prioritized over victims. In my opinion, ain't that the
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Speaker 2: truth wants to crack down on juvenile offenders Tuesday and
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Speaker 2: in or as well, and in that speech on Tuesday
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Speaker 2: asked to raise the age legislation for nineteen year olds
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Speaker 2: to be repealed this session. Wants lawmakers to take action
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Speaker 2: on his proposals from last session to give prosecutors the
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Speaker 2: ability to charge violent offenders who are under nineteen years
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Speaker 2: old in criminal court for serious crimes. And the repeat
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Speaker 2: offender thing, which wow, if I see the words if
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Speaker 2: I had a dollar for every time I saw the
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Speaker 2: word repeat offenders just in one day on social media,
35:11
Speaker 2: or if I had a dollar for every time I
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Speaker 2: saw the words catch and release on social media, local
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Speaker 2: social media. The budget testimony began yesterday. But uh, there's
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Speaker 2: a there's a lot of work that needs to be done. Man,
35:37
Speaker 2: we all know it. The backlog is crazy, absolutely insane.
35:48
Speaker 2: Scott was quoted saying we've reached a point where there
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Speaker 2: are no consequences for not showing up at all.
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Speaker 3: To court.
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Speaker 2: That's the definition of a broken system. Over a quarter
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Speaker 2: of the current backlog involves people with five or more
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Speaker 2: pending criminal cases. There are too many released pre trial
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Speaker 2: who ignore court orders and court dates, and face little
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Speaker 2: or no accountability for violating conditions of release or failing
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Speaker 2: to appear. Said that his budget increases base funding to
36:40
Speaker 2: expand pre trial supervisions statewide and also invest in additional
36:47
Speaker 2: two million for more addiction treatment and recovery efforts to
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Speaker 2: curb crime and abuse in the state. Good number of
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Speaker 2: Vermonters that are saying, good luck with that. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: We'll see what happens God, but this little Green Mountain state, Man,
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Speaker 2: we got some we got some we got some work
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Speaker 2: to do. Man, we got some areas that are just
37:32
Speaker 2: do I think that there are plenty running around under
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Speaker 2: the Golden Dome with their head in the sand.
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Speaker 3: I think there's a good number. Yeah.
37:47
Speaker 2: I also think that there's several that have a pretty
37:54
Speaker 2: good idea but maybe don't have the solution. But man
38:04
Speaker 2: to all of our problems. But we've got to start
38:07
Speaker 2: figuring some stuff out here and from hot man, Oh crap.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just infrastructure, and it's not just drugs,
38:16
Speaker 2: and it's not just crime, and it's not just mental
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Speaker 2: health and education and housing and health insurance. I know
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Speaker 2: the list is stacked a mile long. We've got a
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Speaker 2: lot of work to do. National headlines. Did you before
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Speaker 2: I get into them, did you get a chance to
38:39
Speaker 2: see any of the northern lights the other night? Man,
38:45
Speaker 2: It's like, I know, this big solar storm that is
38:53
Speaker 2: all over the United States, everybody's seeing the northern lights
38:57
Speaker 2: except JD.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It was probably thirty years ago that I saw the
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Speaker 2: northern lights for the first time, and it's like the
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Speaker 2: other night, it's just again missed it. Maybe at this
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Speaker 2: solar storm is going to continue with the northern lights
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Speaker 2: here over.
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Speaker 3: The next few days.
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Speaker 2: If it is, if it's supposed to, let me know,
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Speaker 2: I just don't want to, you know, stand outside it
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Speaker 2: freezing my ass off in the backyard, just standing there
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Speaker 2: looking up with the sky, waiting for the northern lights.
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Speaker 3: National headlines.
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Speaker 2: WHOA Justice Department subpoena's five Democratic leaders in Minnesota, including
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Speaker 2: Govenor Tim Waltz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry. It's part
39:55
Speaker 2: of the investigation into the alleged impending of immigration enforcement.
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Speaker 2: So these are just the headlines. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: I'll be taking a deep dive on any of this.
40:13
Speaker 2: I'm just clansing here, Supreme Court. Here's oral arguments on
40:18
Speaker 2: Hawaii's so called vampire rule, requiring gun owners with concealed
40:26
Speaker 2: carry permits to ask permission before entering private property open
40:31
Speaker 2: to the public, including restaurants and stores. Ask permission. Okay,
40:46
Speaker 2: Moving right along. National Weather Service warning of this major
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Speaker 2: winter storm starting Friday that could weigh down trees and
40:54
Speaker 2: trigger power outages from Texas to the Carolinas. The swath
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Speaker 2: of this thing is huge. Thirty six states are going
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Speaker 2: to be impacted by this storm to varying levels.
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Speaker 3: Thirty six states.
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Speaker 2: This is like multiple storms all coming together hanging out,
41:19
Speaker 2: and like Oklahoma is supposed to get like what fourteen inches,
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Speaker 2: which is way out of the ordinary. Nashville I think
41:29
Speaker 2: is supposed to get like right around that too, at
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Speaker 2: least a foot I'm hearing. Seems like this big sucker
41:39
Speaker 2: is mostly you're going to be pushing to the mid
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Speaker 2: Atlanta through the Mid Atlantic before heading out and up
41:49
Speaker 2: here in the North Country we're going to get the uh,
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Speaker 2: the northern edge of it and not. I don't know, man,
41:57
Speaker 2: It's like I got a couple of friends of freaking
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Speaker 2: out here. We're supposed to get three feet of snow JD.
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Speaker 2: How come you're not paying attention. Didn't you know that?
42:04
Speaker 2: And then I've also heard JD calm down. We're supposed
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Speaker 2: to get like three inches maybe five tops eight, not
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Speaker 2: two feet anyway from what I what I gather here
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Speaker 2: and what I was reading this morning from a channel five.
42:26
Speaker 2: It's supposed to be spread out over the course of
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Speaker 2: like you know, Friday through like Tuesday, an inch here,
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Speaker 2: three there, maybe five, but eight ish total for central
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Speaker 2: Vermont before all is said and done.
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Speaker 3: Eight ish.
42:48
Speaker 2: Of course, if you're in the higher terrain by the
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Speaker 2: time Wednesday, Tuesday, Wednesday gets here, you might be looking
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Speaker 2: at closer to ten.
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Speaker 3: Don't quote me.
42:57
Speaker 2: The former Uvaldi School's police officer, who was among the
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Speaker 2: first to respond to the mass shooting at a Texas
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Speaker 2: elementary school, has been acquitted of criminal charges that he
43:10
Speaker 2: failed his duty to confront the gunman. House Republicans have
43:26
Speaker 2: advanced a resolution to hold former President Bill Clinton and
43:30
Speaker 2: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress
43:36
Speaker 2: over the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. These are the headlines. The
43:44
Speaker 2: Supreme Court seems inclined to keep Federal Reserve Governor Lisa
43:52
Speaker 2: Cook in her job, casting doubt on President Trump's bid
44:01
Speaker 2: to rest control of the nation's central bank. Trump cancels
44:12
Speaker 2: his tear of threat in his push for control of Greenland.
44:17
Speaker 2: Were you watching that last night?
44:19
Speaker 3: Any of that.
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Speaker 2: The abrupt about face emerged hours after Trump had insisted
44:34
Speaker 2: that he wants to get Greenland, including right title and ownership,
44:41
Speaker 2: but said that he would not use force to do so,
44:48
Speaker 2: and vowing that NATO should not try to block US expansionism.
44:55
Speaker 2: Apparently we've got a nice deal that's in the making
45:02
Speaker 2: right now, whatever that means. Hopefully we'll find out some
45:16
Speaker 2: more details here in the coming hours today regarding that.
45:23
Speaker 2: But I don't know, man, there's a lot of countries
45:30
Speaker 2: that are ticked off, and I'm trying to think, read, digest,
45:38
Speaker 2: decipher all of this stuff as objectively as I can.
45:45
Speaker 3: But there's a stench. It doesn't smell great. I don't know.
45:55
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll get the furbreeze out sometime and will all
46:00
Speaker 2: be beautiful.
46:01
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm trying to stay positive here. Let's see.
46:08
Speaker 2: Trump moves to block Wall Street from buying single family
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Speaker 2: homes in a sweeping new executive order, arguing the practice
46:20
Speaker 2: has priced American families out of home ownership and turn
46:23
Speaker 2: neighborhoods into corporate assets rather than places to live. The
46:29
Speaker 2: order directs multiple federal agencies to limit federal support for
46:33
Speaker 2: such purchases, and calls on the Justice Department and Federal
46:37
Speaker 2: Trade Commission to step up antitrust scrutiny of large institutional
46:42
Speaker 2: investors in the housing market. Yesterday, he unveiled his plan
46:50
Speaker 2: to make housing more affordable. Elements of the plan are
46:56
Speaker 2: believed to include limited institutional ownership of single family homes,
47:03
Speaker 2: allowing home owners to keep their old mortgage rate when
47:08
Speaker 2: they move, interesting penalty free early withdrawal from four oh
47:17
Speaker 2: one K accounts to fund a down payment, which I
47:22
Speaker 2: was talking about a couple of days ago last week.
47:25
Speaker 2: I can't remember, but I was talking about that on
47:28
Speaker 2: the air and asked you what you thought about that?
47:33
Speaker 2: And man, I've seen I don't see anything in the
47:37
Speaker 2: in the middle.
47:38
Speaker 3: Here.
47:38
Speaker 2: I see great idea, wonderful idea, and I hear horrible idea,
47:46
Speaker 2: not sustainable. I'm gonna do more harm than good. I've
47:54
Speaker 2: seen both sides. I have a friend that I would
48:02
Speaker 2: love to sneak on the air who is and I'm
48:09
Speaker 2: going to see if I can contact him and see
48:10
Speaker 2: if he'll come on. This guy is on a mission
48:18
Speaker 2: to change the way that homes are built using three
48:26
Speaker 2: D printing, and he has started a company that he says,
48:35
Speaker 2: builds homes for thirty percent less than a typical home
48:41
Speaker 2: and at a fraction of the time. Technology is crazy,
48:52
Speaker 2: crazy good, maybe crazy not so good. But I'm going
48:56
Speaker 2: to see if I can get him on the air
49:00
Speaker 2: and have him maybe lightness.
49:06
Speaker 3: Let's see the.
49:09
Speaker 2: Story about the guy Ian Ludlow extradited to face charges
49:14
Speaker 2: following the police shooting. That story is pretty hot right now.
49:20
Speaker 2: Jamie Gomez eighteen years old. What a mugshot too? Did
49:24
Speaker 2: you see that last night? Handsome dude receiving treatment for
49:31
Speaker 2: gunshot wound at Dartmouth and was returned to Vermont yesterday.
49:41
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens the world's economic form in Switzerland. No,
49:52
Speaker 2: Rusty Dewez is not there for that, I can assure you.
49:59
Speaker 2: But Trump announced a potential framework deal concerning Greenland and
50:07
Speaker 2: says he reached this deal with NATO during this meeting
50:15
Speaker 2: or during this speech to world leaders, and that JD.
50:25
Speaker 2: Vance and Marco Rubio are now leading the discussions to
50:31
Speaker 2: finalize the details of the deal and says, we'll have
50:39
Speaker 2: more details for you soon. Stay tuned.
50:44
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe those details are breaking right now
50:47
Speaker 3: in front of me. I don't know. There's some career,
50:53
Speaker 3: there's crazy stuff going on. It's crazy stuff.
50:57
Speaker 2: Going on, the new diet guidelines, Oh my god, it's
51:03
Speaker 2: just everything.
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Speaker 3: You know.
51:13
Speaker 2: Trump prides himself on the art of the deal, but
51:23
Speaker 2: could this be the ultimate test of the art of
51:30
Speaker 2: the deal. Do you think his negotiating style is working
51:42
Speaker 2: well and creating trust with America's closest allies, or do
51:56
Speaker 2: you think it's creating trust issues. That's what I asked
52:05
Speaker 2: you this morning. Go about it objectively, keep your eyes
52:11
Speaker 2: open tomorrow morning. Gee's gonna come in. Twenty twenty six
52:21
Speaker 2: has arrived red hot, and there's some stuff going on.
52:27
Speaker 2: And I know the whole Beckham drama thing is big
52:33
Speaker 2: right now. I know a lot of people are talking
52:34
Speaker 2: about that. But We're gonna have some fun tomorrow morning,
52:44
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna tell you about some of the wacky
52:50
Speaker 2: for lack of a better term, because I can't think
52:52
Speaker 2: of any anything else wacky stuff that is going on
53:01
Speaker 2: already in twenty twenty six, aside from politics. G loves
53:11
Speaker 2: culture I love culture too. Tomorrow we're gonna tell you
53:18
Speaker 2: about a new dating trend called hot take dating, and
53:30
Speaker 2: we're gonna laugh and we're gonna have some fun with this.
53:34
Speaker 3: Trust me.
53:35
Speaker 2: Tomorrow it's gonna be a doozy as we get ready
53:40
Speaker 2: to kick off one frigid freaking weekend again. Test Tailor
53:45
Speaker 2: gonna be on with me tomorrow talking about the overnight
53:48
Speaker 2: warming shelters here in our communities. Also, Keith Cushman, our
53:56
Speaker 2: fire Chief's gonna be on with me talking about some
53:59
Speaker 2: safety tips, things you need to be aware of, things
54:01
Speaker 2: you need to know.
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Speaker 3: If you're here.
54:05
Speaker 2: In the dark frigid tundra of Vermont, don't miss it
54:13
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning. All right, be well, take good care. Thank
54:18
Speaker 2: you tuning in this morning. Thanks for sharing your coffee
54:21
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54:33
Speaker 2: take good care, God bless, try to stay warm, and
54:36
Speaker 2: most importantly, please check on your neighbors and your friends
54:43
Speaker 2: and make sure that they're gonna be okay during this
54:46
Speaker 2: cold snap. All right, we'll see you tomorrow morning here
54:48
Speaker 2: on the aired out podcast, The Bott