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HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2024 - US Correspondent Rich Reynolds live on BayRadio International
Dec 2, 2024
BayRadio International's US Correspondent Rich Reynolds joined Kal live this week for the regular Tuesday catch-up, just ahead of Thanksgiving.
It includes a further look at some of Donald Trump's proposals for cabinet positions, with RFK Jr among them and vowing to cut prescription drugs and increase marijuana and psychedelics access.
Rich also gives an excellent insight into Thanksgiving, including its history and how it's usually celebrated these days.
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so you you just dropped something on us just as that record was playing there and um you you don't generally talk
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politics with your brother um and of course you've had to speak politics with your brother for the first time in quite
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a while and and you are different sides of the uh of the Divide aren't you so
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and he was basically wiping your nose in it right he but he was having he was having none of the democratic platform
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he was you know it's it's one way to keep your family happy is just not
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discuss politics and there's to be a lot of politics discussed over this weekend American oh my God they're it's going to
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be food thrown and unhappy people and and relationships broken up but yeah we
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did we did I don't know how we got on it but my brother did bring up uh uh Trump and and that whole thing and I just you
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know you you can't argue with anybody can you you couldn't you can't argue with your parents or or your brother or sister and we I just took it and I just
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said I disagree with everything you said I I love him I do anything for my brother but you know it's
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and what are you going to what are you going to do you can't win no politics at the dinner table over Thanksgiving guys
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oh my God I can only imagine what it's going to be like we'll talk about Thanksgiving actually before we go today
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um but um let's take a look at some of the stories that are making the headlines in the US of a Amazon workers
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in 20 countries uh talking about striking on Black Friday better workers
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rights and climate action on the bill but also uh Israeli killing of
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journalists in Lebanon could be a war crime what are we talking about this is this this was another headline today I
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see what we're talking about but first off then uh the Amon workers in 20 let's talk about something really important
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including the US yeah making sure you get your Q-tips in the uh uh delivered to your home I would tell people if
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you're going to order something by Amazon I'd do it now I wouldn't wait a couple of days um because there's a good
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chance that over the next week or two weeks you're not you're not going to get it if indeed your Black Friday deal is a
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deal because they're not all always make sure you check it out obviously uh but quite often you know they could be
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cheaper at other times of the year uh but yeah so 20 countries uh all set to
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strike that's quite a few including the US Germany the UK turkey Canada uh India
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Japan Brazil coordinated by the make Amazon pay campaign uh so yeah they need
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to they need to Jeff bessos needs to cough up he's got enough he does he does he does he really I guess he doesn't
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think so I guess he does but 80 trade unions are behind this whole thing and uh uh one organizer said that Amazon
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represents everything that's broken about the UK's economy insecure work poverty wages unsafe working conditions
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I mean we we've heard this all before and uh you have to admit it's smart on
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their part if you're going to strike this is the time to strike well yeah and they have before haven't they they've done this already yeah yeah yeah what
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you have to wonder how far they got whether they actually got anywhere well I think that think they'll probably get a a some sort of an increase somewhere
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down there but but if you got thousands of people going on strike they they're going to have to do something um they're
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not going to be able to cut the entire si uh system down but one thing is for sure uh they are decentral the way they
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become decentralized over the years and they've got um they've got outlets in every country and multiple outlets in
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the states they must have 10 or 12 um outlets in the country um uh
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distribution centers so we'll see what we'll see what happens but it does look like that the the global there's a
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global Union um and a numberella group aggressive International which are actually pulling them all uh together so
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it could be a United action across many different countries which is obviously not what they would have wanted really
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so get get those requests in for whatever you're buying now and don't don't delay Jeff says it checks in the
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post by the way checks in the post yeah meanwhile to the politics then the special Council Jack Smith then dropping
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the election subversion case against Donald Trump well this was going to happen wasn't it um it it might not be
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forever cuz it could come back after he's not president anymore right yeah uh it's because there's a um a law that
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says you can't sue a cting president and so for him to pursue this for him to
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pursue the whole thing about January 6th about the the riots on the capital to pursue the the documents in his bathroom
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and pursue the um uh U the other uh court cases it doesn't make any sense he
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could be completely wasting his time on top of that Trump said that he was going to fire Jack Smith you hey I don't like
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him I'm G to fire him so but instead what's happening is Jack Smith's just going to go away and you're right he
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could come back but I you know I think the smart money is that all of this is just going to go away um and I think the
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phrase that we could use in from the movies is he got away with it well I thought that he could probably pardon
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himself anyway but nobody's ever done that so we're not going to see that happen now anyway are we no nobody ever
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had to do it but but yeah he was he's threatened to do that but now with Jack Smith dropping the uh dropping all the
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claims um he's just going to be uh out there by himself now one thing you need
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to know is that a lot of these states are still going to be pursuing the state of Georgia can still sue him the state
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of New York can still sue him so that's still hanging out there but that's kind of a lesser charge and uh either way
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he's not going to jail he's probably not going to serve a fine and there's there's not going to be anything from
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this it's going to magically in in my estimation it's going to magically go away in the words of Vice
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president-elect JD Vance the prosecutions were always political if Donald J Trump had lost the election he
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may well have spent the rest of his life in prison yeah not anymore wouldn't that be
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nice not if you're my brother it would absolutely uh so meanwhile there's
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obviously plenty happening on the Trump front and his pick for the Pentagon
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basically attacking the United Nations and NATO urging the US to ignore Geneva conventions as well this is Pete heith
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right yeah this guy Pete heith is uh he's the one who's the fox weekend
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co-host and he is uh really really carrying the banner for Trump and he's
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the nominee for Secretary of Defense he's the nominee for say nominee still at the moment that is right he is the nominee for Secretary of defense
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arguably one of the two or three most important positions he controls the most
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powerful or would control the most powerful uh Army in the uh in the world
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and he hates turkey he hates NATO um he is very very pro-israel very pro-israel
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and he said uh if you love America you love Israel and uh that's one way to put
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it but he he thinks that everybody's as he said sucking off the US te
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and is uh everybody should be beholden to the US and everybody needs to pay
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their fair share and there was another quote Europe has already allowed itself
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to be invaded yeah I thought that was that was a very telling remark um I
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don't know whether he's talking about World War II or World War I I I have no idea yeah twice he said so he allowed
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itself to be invaded so talking about both world wars you know but but for somebody to say the defense of Europe is
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not our problem been there done that twice which is what you mean it's it's
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it's to me it's coarse it's indefensible it's uh it's enough to
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raise the hairs on the back of your neck if you live in Europe or anywhere else
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in the world and and you're an ally of the country so he's basically saying look we're we're not going to be there
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to defend you anymore we're not going to be playing this game with you anymore and it's it's kind of sad so we'll see
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what happens whether he backs off now the most important thing is whether or not he's even confirmed course that's
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May yes because as everybody has probably heard he has he at one time in
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2017 he was accused of sexual improprieties with a woman and uh they
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settled out of court there was money changing hands and nobody can seem to find a trail on that but no charges were
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actually filed so inadvertently you can't look at it and say well he didn't do it then he he admitted that he had
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relations with this woman but he says it was consensual but that like a lot of the stuff Trump does that's that's that
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dark cloud that's hanging over this whole thing and as it was with Matt Gates wouldn't be the first nominee to
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not be a nominee anymore yeah or to withdraw put it I know I know but I but I would put I would pay put 5050 money
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on on whether or not he's going to be confirmed or not but uh there are a lot of people that that think he's a little
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too extreme and um unfortunately when you're on television and you you're on a
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popular show like fox say there's uh your words are are uh on tape well as
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recently is this year he said uh that the US forces should ignore the Geneva
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conventions and other elements of international law governing the conduct of War we will rip off your arms and
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feed them to Hogs yeah nice very nice what a guy he's the guy you want at your
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next Christmas party so okay uh where else are we then um RFK Jr yeah um so
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he's another nominee he'll cut prescription uh drugs and increase weed
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and psychedelics access don't think anybody's going to be getting any injections or inoculations anytime soon
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under him though he well you know what he's he's he said it both ways he's been interviewed where he said uh I I don't
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believe in vaccines we're all vaccinated almost everybody in the world is vaccinated you can't
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be o everybody's had vaccinations at some point in their life it seems but he says
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that uh in other interviews that he's he is in favor of vaccines so he's he's
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really riding the fence both ways but I I think you know the main man has been seen to say one thing one minute and
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another another time so that doesn't seem to really matter in the current uh world of uh of of us politics uh so yeah
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you can say one thing one day and another another day he called the US the sickest country in the world blaming its
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Health Care system for devoting billions to the pills and potions and the powders rather than actually getting people
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healthy uh building their immune system so the lot there's a lot against big farmer there but it is the big companies
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that are benefiting from the Trump uh uh return to the White House you know it's a bit of an overstatement to say we're
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the sickest country in the world but there is something to that because you can't rather one of the unhealthy
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countries unth world yeah but it's uh a lot of people are on a lot of medication
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and the medication just keeps going and going and the medication makes you sicker and and gives you other illnesses
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so there is a little bit of Truth to what he's saying there but he doesn't have any public health experience though
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I love the lot of number of Trump's picks don't really have a lot of experience in the field that they're
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chosen for just a passing I don't know what his job is what is his job what is his background I I I I feel like he was
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a lawyer at some point but you can't swing a dead cat in the US without hitting a lawyer he is an attorney yeah
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he's an attorney and he's you know completely riding on that Kennedy name but uh certainly well he was he also
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went up against Trump he was quite harsh about him yeah early on in the campaign before oh he he's called him some really
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nasty names but then all of a sudden he uh it's okay if you jump Camp you're right again he jumped down camp and he
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says oh my good friend my buddy yeah okay but he really as you said he's got no Public Health experience all he has
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is opinions uh he's the guy who claims that vaccinations cause Autism um nobody
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in fact knows what causes autism autism is a big problem in the US as it is in a
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lot of countries um so I think unlike hesketh I think he's going to be
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confirmed um I think that uh where that goes Nobody Knows as far as you know
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what the the public health system but it is to the military it is about as big the
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public health system in the US it's like the NHS I mean how one guy is not going to be able to change that one guy's not
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going to be able to make well there is one guy who might be able to change yeah and he also has no
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Public Health experience so we do know that when when Trump was in charge and
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uh Co came around the whole the whole country was running around with their hair on fire they didn't know what they
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were doing and and uh it's amazing to this day that we got through it Trump voters have been looking at the cabinet
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picks uh they are basically saying they're getting the government that they wanted aren't they yeah they they wanted
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change and and the feeling seems to be that in 2016 when he won he was even
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Republicans will tell you that he was uh ill prepared for uh the job in filling
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all these positions because a lot of the cabinet positions went unfilled for the first couple of months and you have a
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defense department you had a Department of State there was nobody running it but this time he's got some people uh the
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the one person that everybody seems to have liked and I don't know this guy or
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know of him is the Secretary of the Treasury um that ever he was named about
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two days ago and the market just jumped Market jumped up 400 500 points and it
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turns out that this guy's got a really good reputation and everybody feels that he should be able to keep Trump in line
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when it comes to all these tariffs and taxes that he's uh planning on doing um
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Matt Gates as we know is out but there are some people that are very very uh
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um very well not well thought of you know for any of these positions some of senior Republicans aren't quite happy
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with the picks that's the way it's been going isn't it yeah that's right uh it's
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there are a lot of people like Linda McMahon to run the uh um Department of Education Linda
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McMahon is the wife of Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Federation um she has no
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background in education um she uh Trump has said he wants to do away with the
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Department of Education this is according to project 2025 which Trump claims he knows nothing about all he
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would have to do spent about a half an hour reading it but oh no listen to us talking about listen to us we're talking
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about it all the time but uh she's completely unqualified for that job uh
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hesketh and and as you were saying tulsey gabard Tulsi gabard right now is up for the uh for a cabinet position and
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she has taken very pro-russia stances in the past and a lot of people are very very aware even on the Republican side
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that she has sympathized with Syria she has sympathized with uh erdogan she
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sympathized with uh with Putin on a lot of things that kind of make you scratch
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your head and say huh so yeah she's been quite outspoken in a number of different areas um I've
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just been looking while at Scott bessent uh the chat that you were talking about no that was the pick for for for the the
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finance job I think well he's at least got a background in finance he's a hedge fund manager and I think that that he's
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going to pass through without any problem especially since right after they announced him we know how reactive
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the stock market be as soon as that happened the market jumped meaning that have been buoyant though anyway since
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Trump's Victory but they certainly did like that choice yeah that's very true that's very true ever since he was named
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a lot of people have made a lot of money on the market over the past two weeks so we should be concerned about telsey
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gabbard basically that's what you were saying yeah I think so because um I I have real doubts that she's going to be
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confirmed but you know as a lot of people know she was a Democrat she was a
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a congresswoman from uh Hawaii and uh
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was very anti-trump and then all of a sudden she was prot Trump and very uh pro- Russia and pro um all of the Maga
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standards and so if if you really dig down deeply into what she believes uh I
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think the main criticism is that she has really cozied up to uh Russia and all of the philosophies
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that uh they're spewing okay uh meanwhile uh the uh uh there is a a
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peace deal apparently being spoken about we can't get anybody to confirm this but the Kremlin says the Trump Circle are
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talking about a peace deal uh but um they're blaming Joe Biden for escalating well I'm afraid at the moment there's
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escalation everywhere on both sides and um it's probably is because uh there has
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been the rumor muted that Trump will bring things proceedings to an end very swiftly so it looks like they're trying
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to gain as much as they possibly can before they are told to well get the
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heads bang together by Donald yeah well uh Biden continues to escalate he
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continues to push um to push zalinski to to escalate and to and to fight back and
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to fight into Russia whereas well I you know I think the fact that the North
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Koreans might have had something to do with that you know I mean you know I I don't like this like he's escalated
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she's escalated whatever you know um there there's been escalation on both sides um and they've been reacting to to
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situations and uh you know every everything that we're seeing though is that that the Russians have run out of
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soldiers the ukrainians have certainly run out of soldiers and I saw a piece this morning where not only uh mothers
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were were being um were being uh enlisted into the service but also
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grandmothers there was a a woman who had had grandchildren at home who was carrying a rifle and learn learning how
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to shoot so I think both sides are at their wit's end right now now uh Trump trump wants to negotiate but his from
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everything I've read what he wants to do is negotiate that part of Ukraine will
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stay in Russian hands that's his solution yes we can have a ceasefire yes we can have peace but Ukraine is going
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to have to give up all of the areas that Russia is currently occupying no that's not on the table as far as ukra ain't
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going to happen not even Crimea is on the table so you know that uh that that probably doesn't look like being over
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immediately but at the same time as you said you know that both sides have been suffering terribly and Putin's three-day
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War has turned into a three-day War which nobody really can manage um and of course the nuclear rhetoric is getting
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wrapped up you know day by day on our news this morning you know we've got the
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Spanish government furiously writing their War Journal basically explaining to people how to react if the war comes
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as far as the Iberian Peninsula you got Germans researching bomb shelters
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and um of course Finland basically everybody's ready to fight above the age of 10 um you know so it's it is a threat
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it's a big threat it's not just for Ukraine it is for the whole of Europe and you know the sooner uh that people really get on board with sorting things
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out uh the better the European union today have been talking about it they are saying that they will support they
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are moving uh the uh area of supporting Germany to somewhere else so it doesn't have the US influence over it uh but um
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I wonder if it's not all a little bit too late here for a number of these things to happen but we'll see you know
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uh we we don't know really uh what Trump is going to say or how he's going to end
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this in what the first day of his he's going to be doing quite a lot on his first day though isn't he let's face it well that's what he says I'm going to do
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very first thing I'm going to do is then he list 20 things but your point is well taken that that America's looking at
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this is it's how it's affecting them everything is about them everything is about how many bombs we have how many
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how much money we're spending to come over here but but this is affecting every single country in Europe now as
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you pointed out and it's absolutely true it's you know it's Spaniards building Germans building bomb sheltered
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Spaniards wondering what to do where we could go what we could do and there are
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couple of dozen countries that are involved in this thing right now so we would love it if it were ended I mean I
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think we all have to be really clear we would love it if it all ended now but uh it doesn't appear that that's going to
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be the case at least in the foreseeable future and of course as we know Donald Trump a lot of what he was talking about
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when he was vying for his next presidency was about America First
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making you know beginning at home uh and that's certainly uh the big thing that's
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been in the news in the past day or so it's about deportation getting rid of
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the people who don't have the papers to be in the US OFA which works for a lot of the people that voted for Trump but
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maybe not so much for Farm owners and people who run big farms uh who need
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those workers uh in the country to to help them Farm the crops as we've seen since brexit in Britain so there are 2
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million Farm Workers in the country that's a lot of people and half of them are undocumented by by estimation so for
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for the new uh uh head of uh uh of uh of
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what am I saying the the border the borders are yeah this uh this guy Tom hom is talking about just kicking
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everybody who's illegal out of the country well there it's estimated there are 20 million people there are a
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million working in the farm business and As Americans know these are the people
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who pick the crops uh there are very few Americans who are picking crops and and
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working at slaughter houses and that sort of thing so the Homan clarified by
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saying well the first thing we're going to do is we're going to go after uh people who are criminals people who are
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bringing drugs people people bringing illegal and doing illegal things in the country that's what we're going to do
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and then of course anybody who's in the country illegally after that so I I just
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think that there's going to have to be a compromise there should be some sort of a path for a lot of illegal people to be
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um be given citizenship papers or possibly there's a a thing called an
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h2a uh Visa which means that somebody can work in the country legally
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and they're paying into the they're paying Social Security and they're paying into the you know into the system
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um but that's only a couple hundred thousand people so they have about they
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still have a couple of million people they have to to to get into this uh system um it's the only solution they
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it's a big job they kick all these people out and the cost of food is going to go way up of course and and there
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aren't going to be all of a sudden there going to be a lot of empty shelves I mean there's not going to be any lettuce there's going to be no bro Tomatoes
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potatoes what what what have you you might say potato yeah um yeah I it's
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it's not just a big sweeping statement that's going to solve everything is it as we were seeing during the uh the
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campaigning uh but yeah plenty to be done on the first day and tariffs tariffs tariffs as far as the I can see
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uh also being muted uh or being talked about today and worrying places like
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Canada and the like uh as the headline I think was about Canada and a few other
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places wasn't it if we go back to that yeah Mexico and China it yeah and but he's tying these to drugs that's that's
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the big thing everybody thinks about tariffs and trying to dissuade Chinese
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the Chinese from flooding America with cheap products but that's true of every country in the world we all have Chinese
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products you know and any Americans who are in the states listening to this now we have just as many products here in
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Spain or in Germany or in the UK they're they're prevalent they are everywhere and leveling a tariff is not going to
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keep them from coming in but what the US is trying to do is to get the chemicals
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so Mexico and Canada basically uh flooding the US with uh fenel
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particularly also it's a migrant issue there um and of course uh China flooding
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the market with cheap uh the base for for for for the chemicals that make the drugs that are causing a problem it's
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not a it's not a bad idea let's face it you know it's not a bad idea but but but
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for Trump to say all the tariffs when when a tariff is levied that means that that means China's paying for it China
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is not paying for a tar is a tax it means that you're paying you're going to be paying more for this Chinese material
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now if that gives you pause to say hey I I don't want to buy this product because
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it's Chinese that's entirely up to you but you're right about that tying it in
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into uh to a country to any country that's flooding your country with fenel
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or or uh drugs to make fentanyl which is a huge problem in the world but a
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massive problem in the United States right now is the amount of drug addiction due to Fentanyl and which as
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everybody knows is a man-made uh drug um none of it occurs in nature then I think
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that that there's something to that whether or not he's going to be able to get that done I I don't I don't know I
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did have a figure actually but it's gone there oh there it is actually um that um
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$2,400 a year is what the trade tariffs could potentially cost us consumers well
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the thought the thought seems to be that this guy Scott Bessant uh who's the hedg hunt manager is going to be treasury
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secretary might be able to talk um Trump off the ledge a little bit here and get him because remember in the The Campaign
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he was going I'm going to put a th% uh on
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and 2,000% and everybody's everybody's going to pay but us well hopefully this
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guy who's the Secretary of the Treasury is going to be able to talk him down a little bit meanwhile you didn't get to
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see Wicked yet and you were dying to see it defying the box office uh it's huge
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it's bigger than any other film have have you seen the play have you I I haven't know I know it's it's it's
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beaten all Broadways place that have gone uh to film right I saw it on Broadway I saw it in uh uh in another
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City and loved every minute of was Arana Grande in Broadway no she was not on Broadway she would have been very very
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young but I mean the show's been around for 20 years so it's a great great show and I can't wait to see it I'm dying to
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see it so I will see it though 114 million is in the US and 164 worldwide
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so that's that's pretty good I want to see Gladiator 2 also that's uh the same thing I'm a that kind of guy I'll see
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the musical and I'll see the Gladiator movie what what are you saying I'm saying I go both ways that's what that's what I
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thought you were saying we got some ACDC on the way meanwhile Macy says that an
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employee hit up to $154 million in expenses how would one employee you know
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I read this hide that amount of money I read this story up and down I had to look at it again too and I can't figure
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out how and and to say this that this guy is a or this person is a former employee goes without saying but I read
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the story three and four and five times and I still don't how you bury this sort of but it's delayed Macy's have not been
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able to release their third quarter earnings because of this $154
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million buried somewhere uh and all in shipping charges right shipping it's probably hidden somewhere in the
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Bloomingdale's account yeah blue Tails oh my gosh that's amazing isn't it yeah
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it's it's pretty amazing and it all comes right before Macy's Big Time of the Year all of course all eyes in the country are on Macy's with the parade
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and sure excellent okay so thanks Thanksgiving then uh we do need to talk about that a number of people aren't
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always that of with the details of exactly what happens where why uh and how uh so how did it all
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start well when I was a boy this a very very long time ago is that actually when
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America came together in 1620 um so it all started in without
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without getting into too much detail what happened was some Brits came over in 1620 uh landed in there were other
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Europeans as well it wasn't just Brits I think they I don't know but but it was 1620
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and they uh and they they landed in in uh in outside of Boston in uh in uh
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Massachusetts uh spent the first year on the boat because they the winter was apparently so bad 16 weren't expecting
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that were they the pilgrims they were not so they want they they apparently were leaving because of religious persecution but what they came into was
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just awful awful weather um and so they stayed on on this boat the Mayflower
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they weren't doing very well really were they no no and they were eating things like birds
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fish uh seals things like that they were not eating turkeys and that sort of thing in
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1621 uh the Indians were who were living in the area the red Indians the Native
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Americans na the true Native Americans invited them to have a feast and so what happened was they had uh uh they gifted
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turkeys to the to the pilgrims they did gifted turkeys that's right but apparently the first uh turkeys were
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indigenous there was there was no record of a big bird at the feast uh they
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brought deer I'm reading this now deer Seafood uh muscles Lobster bass and the
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fruits of the first harvest uh they did not have mashed potatoes which is a current Feast it is so so that's where
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it all started so pumpkin pie which is the thing I I I
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I inhale pumpkin pie I love pumpkin pie so this went on uh for years in 1863
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during the Civil War uh Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that in November there would
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be a national uh Feast of Thanksgiving on on Thursday so Thanksgiving is always on
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the last last Thursday of the month uh in this yeah Thursday and Friday of
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course has become Black Friday so what happens is everybody gets a time off and for me it's my favorite holiday of the
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year because it's a non-sectarian it's it there's no religion attached to this thing and the holiday it's all about
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family right yeah for everybody who doesn't know this it's you get together with family and friends you get together
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at somebody's house if you're lucky weather's usually rubbish weather is usually according to the films that we' se really bad really bad it is as well
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again isn't it yeah just like the pilgrims and so they uh what happens is
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that the traditional food is turkey stuffing mashed potatoes cranberries
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sauce uh sweet potatoes my wife's favorite sweet potatoes um and mashed
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potatoes and and that sort of thing uh and also then comes the watching of of football football American football on
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is it the Macy's Parade first and then the football or is it the other way around no Macy's Parade's in the morning so usually the Macy's Parade is in the
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morning and what happens is you'll watch the parade while you're preparing your food or somebody's preparing it while
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you're watching the parade but every every and the Macy's Parade is on three networks at the same time really oh
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everybody's airing it at the same it's the same parade you know but it's and they have Broadway actors and giant
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balloons and that sort of thing and everybody watches it and then uh usually dinner is served anywhere between noon
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and 2 o'clock and then the football comes on like 3 4 o'clock something like that there usually are two sometimes
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three games being played on different networks um and that weekend is rivalry
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weekend uh on college football that's when which is huge Michigan Ohio State
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and and um uh um Virginia Virginia Tech that
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sort of thing it's all these states where they have these you knowby Tabby matches yeah yeah yeah yeah and that is
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that's the the big thing on on the weekend the Michigan Ohio State game is H for instance is a is a really big one
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it's that's it's this Saturday um so I'm really looking forward to that um so
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it's a big thing all people do is eat eat eat eat eat eat drink drink drink drink drink and nobody feels badly about
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and they take four days off we used to say in in in Germany in NATO during the Cold War that um if there was any time
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the Russians wanted to come over the hill it would be Easter because basically all the guys that were stationed there disappeared back to the
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UK but um and there seem to be some reason why more people were meant or told to stay around at Christmas but
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Easter just seemed to be the Exodus and I think I guess this would have to be the right time then if anybody was thinking about having to go with the US
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OFA it would be this weekend Oh there's nothing going on everything is closed and I tell you you working the you working television or in the news
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business or in radio oh yeah that's nothing going on it's like Christmas day nothing is happening Thanksgiving Day
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nothing is happening un unless it's football and parades and people eating and and traveling and that and this is
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and the biggest today is the biggest travel Day in the US of course today and tomorrow traditionally as as we mentioned the weather is bad weather is
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going to be horrible this weekend especially in the east coast and uh um
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and in the and on the west coast and they've been getting a lot of rain on the west coast right now how do it Rogan said on his podcast this week something
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like the world's burning but um Biden's uh pardoning turkeys cuz that's a traditional thing yeah he pardoned the
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they always pardon the turkeys to me it's whack whack whack you know it's it's a little silly but they pardon the
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turkeys apparently that that this goes all the way back a hundred years uh
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until when Lincoln was president and his son Tad said oh Father I really like this turkey and so Lincoln pardon the
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turkey no it's a tradition yeah it's all kind of silly but love it well have a great Thanksgiving weekend um I hope you
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get together with the family at some point at some time uh and know it's going to be a little bit difficult but it should happen at some point right
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take care I'll be back [Music]
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