Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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Speaker 3: So glad you're with us for the Friday edition of
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Speaker 2: So much to get to today.
Speaker 3: We're going to be talking about a number of things,
Speaker 3: including the latest on the TikTok ban, which still isn't
Speaker 3: a ban and now it looks like it'll never be
Speaker 3: a ban. Why is this so hard to actually implement
Speaker 3: this law. We'll talk about what the new arrangement with
Speaker 3: TikTok is and why it seems to be falling short.
Speaker 2: We'll also be taking a look at.
Speaker 3: Pam Bondi and the Justice Department actually making some arrests
Speaker 3: and response to the invasion of the church on Sunday,
Speaker 3: including the guy that we played in the clip on Monday.
Speaker 3: So that's pretty gratifying, and we'll be taking a look.
Speaker 3: As we head into NFL Conference Championship weekend, the San
Speaker 3: Francisco forty nine ers are not in the final four.
Speaker 3: They got slaughtered by the Seahawks last week, but they
Speaker 3: fact that they got to the divisional round despite a
Speaker 3: raft of injury to keep players this year. They're now
Speaker 3: investigating whether the fact that their practice facility is next
Speaker 3: to an electrical substation could be responsible for injuries this
Speaker 3: year and.
Speaker 2: In prior years well. Also time permitting.
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Speaker 3: And this story was actually breaking about the time we
Speaker 3: started recording yesterday, but now we can addle a few
Speaker 3: more details to it. Three people have now been arrested
Speaker 3: in conjunction with those anti ice protests that barged into
Speaker 3: the city's church on Sunday, disrupting worship services. Video E
Speaker 3: saw videos of the kids crying. We played the clip
Speaker 3: of the guy just screaming like he was either on.
Speaker 2: Drugs or possessed. Take your pick.
Speaker 1: I believe William Kelly. We don't need to just prefer
Speaker 1: him as the guy. We've now got a mug shot
Speaker 1: for him. Sorry to step on the news.
Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right.
Speaker 3: So the first two arrests yesterday, we're Nikima Levy Armstrong,
Speaker 3: who was kind of the ringleader of the whole deal,
Speaker 3: and then also Chantelle Luisa Allen. And yes, William Kelly,
Speaker 3: the guy who has not only been part of that protest,
Speaker 3: but many protests at Christ Church in Washington, d C.
Speaker 3: He's been spotted in New Orleans trying to worshippers all
Speaker 3: over the place. So he is finally in custody. Don Lemon,
Speaker 3: you can tell he really wishes he was arrested, but
Speaker 3: he's not. The judge would not sign off on that.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure why, but nonetheless, Jim, it's good to
Speaker 3: see arrests being made here because, as we've explained earlier
Speaker 3: in the week, this was clearly a crime.
Speaker 1: You know, Greg, we're not fans of Don Lemon on
Speaker 1: this podcast, but this is where we can find common
Speaker 1: ground with Don Lemon. We'd like to see him frog
Speaker 1: marched in handcuffs. To use the infamous phrase of Ambassador
Speaker 1: Joe Wilson, apparently it is not to be or it
Speaker 1: is not to be based on the current evidence. I
Speaker 1: saw people pointing out that the judge reportedly as a
Speaker 1: spouse who works in the Minnesota Attorney General's office. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the case. I would point out
Speaker 1: to the fact that certain figures were arrested, that there
Speaker 1: was sufficient evidence to get an arrest warrant indicates that
Speaker 1: this is not the judge rejecting all evidence out of
Speaker 1: hand and doing what he had to protect it if
Speaker 1: clearly there's some threshold of evidence and some of them
Speaker 1: were made, some of them were not, we can still
Speaker 1: hold out hope that at some point Don Lemon will
Speaker 1: get his wish and that we will finally get to
Speaker 1: see that. I'm sure he would think we would make
Speaker 1: great television. You know, it's almost the old expression here,
Speaker 1: I can't even get arrested in the case of Don Lemon,
Speaker 1: literally he cannot get arrested despite me or recording himself
Speaker 1: disrupting church services and things like that. But look, you know,
Speaker 1: William Kelly, based on both that video and the let's
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Speaker 1: look like it certainly appears that they committed a federal crime.
Speaker 1: They'll be prosecuted for it and hopefully a jury will
Speaker 1: hold them accountable. Either way, it is good news in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty rare thing these.
Speaker 3: Days, no no doubt about it. Good news on the charges.
Speaker 3: Getting a conviction in Minneapolis, Minnesota on this could be
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Speaker 3: what should be an obvious need for prosecution there and
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Speaker 3: you all right, Jim onto our bad Martini also the
Speaker 3: subject of today's Morning Jolt. And you know, back in
Speaker 3: the I guess the last year of the Biden administration,
Speaker 3: Congress passed the TikTok Ban as it was known, basically
Speaker 3: forcing TikTok to no longer be owned by Byte Dance,
Speaker 3: had to be completely divested of any company that was
Speaker 3: connected to the Chinese government. It was upheld by the
Speaker 3: Supreme Court nine to nothing, and ever since then it's
Speaker 3: basically been kicked down the road by the Trump administration
Speaker 3: for the most part, in terms of actually implementing this law.
Speaker 3: At different times, Trump has talked about, you know, other
Speaker 3: people taking it over. He mentioned Larry Allison at one point,
Speaker 3: He mentioned other people at one point. Well, now there's
Speaker 3: a deal in place, but the deal does not exactly
Speaker 3: fit with what the law calls for, which is the
Speaker 3: complete devestment of Byte Dance, because the Bike Dance still
Speaker 3: controls twenty percent of the company, and as you point
Speaker 3: out in the Jolt today, that means Byte Dance still
Speaker 3: certainly has a say in how tik Talk functions, which
Speaker 3: means propaganda and other things. And possibly I don't know,
Speaker 3: but maybe you've dug into this as well, data harvesting,
Speaker 3: basically Chinese spyware.
Speaker 2: Will it still be that going forward here?
Speaker 3: So what exactly is the deal and what's the reality
Speaker 3: for its compliance or non compliance with the law.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Greg, you said this the current arrangement that
Speaker 1: was now finalized yesterday, it does not fit with the
Speaker 1: existing past law. That's another way of saying violates the law. Yes,
Speaker 1: Byte Dance gets to keep nineteen point nine percent of
Speaker 1: the US version of TikTok. The You know, everybody who
Speaker 1: was worried about this from a national security perspective, all
Speaker 1: the China hawks, all the big people who saw this,
Speaker 1: none of them are satisfied with this. And these are
Speaker 1: folks like you know, folks not just with the Hudson Institute,
Speaker 1: good solid conservative hawkish types. Mark Short, former of Vice
Speaker 1: President Mike Pence's chief of staff. He was Director of
Speaker 1: Legislative Affairs in Trump's first term. These are not knee
Speaker 1: jerk Trump critics. These are not people who are automatically
Speaker 1: going to denounce the president whatever he says. And the
Speaker 1: whole playing Well, don't worry, the US licenses the algorithm. Well,
Speaker 1: that doesn't really address the core problem here, which is
Speaker 1: the problem was being used to feed out messages that
Speaker 1: were hostile to American interests and to suppress messages that were,
Speaker 1: you know, supportive of American interests or critical of the
Speaker 1: Chinese state. Right, and so one of the things they
Speaker 1: point out is that, well, don't worry, we have full
Speaker 1: inspection of the algorithm. Well, why do you feel the
Speaker 1: need to inspect the algorithm because the algorithm is even
Speaker 1: used to pump foreign propaganda into people's mind, Like there's
Speaker 1: this thing like, no, the problem is the algorithm. You
Speaker 1: would need a different algorithm to resolve this, right. So, yes,
Speaker 1: technically there's a US entity that is in charge of
Speaker 1: moderating the content seven member majority of American board, TikTok's
Speaker 1: Chief executive officer, Shao Chu, who gets to have a
Speaker 1: seat on the board. But the person who was TikTok's
Speaker 1: head of operations, Adam Presser, is the new CEO. People
Speaker 1: say oh, okay, well you got an American CEO that fakes.
Speaker 1: That's good is Adam Presser has been with TikTok in
Speaker 1: senior executive role since April twenty twenty two. So I
Speaker 1: went back through some of the most notorious examples of
Speaker 1: TikTok either censoring content or promoting content that we considered
Speaker 1: to be anti American propaganda. Former NBA player Nis Kanter
Speaker 1: Freedom had his account shut down and back in March
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Then twelve days later they said, oh,
Speaker 1: it was an error, you know, just because we just
Speaker 1: happened to coincidentally shut down the biggest critic of the
Speaker 1: one of the biggest critics of the Chinese regime. May
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, they shut down the Actin Institute after
Speaker 1: her post messages promoting Jimmy Lai and criticizing the Chinese
Speaker 1: Communist Party. All this time, Presser was the TikTok vice
Speaker 1: president in chief of staff. You know, this is not
Speaker 1: a guy who was oh off in some branch office
Speaker 1: somewhere who had no idea what was going on there.
Speaker 1: October twenty three, the Hamas attack on Israel, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, TikTok users are getting all these anti Israel
Speaker 1: and pro Hamas messages, and the guy go back on
Speaker 1: it works through the algorithm and says, the moment you
Speaker 1: clicked on one of these, your fee just started filling
Speaker 1: up with more and more of it. Right. November twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, TikTok users suddenly start approvingly this two thousand
Speaker 1: and two letter from Osama bin Laden and saying, oh,
Speaker 1: bin Laden made a lot of good useful points. No, no,
Speaker 1: he did not, right, But the question is like, how
Speaker 1: does something from two thousand and two suddenly go big
Speaker 1: and go viral all over TikTok and what caused that?
Speaker 1: That has to be the algorithm, right. Rutgers University does
Speaker 1: a study December twenty twenty three and says, look, there's
Speaker 1: just no way that the information's critical of the Chinese
Speaker 1: government has this low traffic, and information that is supportive
Speaker 1: of the Chinese government has this much traffic without somebody
Speaker 1: playing with the algorithm. It's just no way that this
Speaker 1: is naturally occurring this entire time. Presser is head of
Speaker 1: operations for TikTok. So you're like, oh, don't worry, We've
Speaker 1: got an American in church. We've got the American who's been
Speaker 1: in senior roles during all the problem times. But all
Speaker 1: the other times we've had these problems with the algorithm.
Speaker 1: So why would we think that this algorithm is going
Speaker 1: to suddenly get a whole lot better when you've got
Speaker 1: the same guy running the operation. I don't see how
Speaker 1: this is consistent with US interests. Last night on True
Speaker 1: Social Trump goes on talks about how much he loves TikTok,
Speaker 1: and TikTok loves young people, young people love him. He
Speaker 1: also says, I would also like to thank President g
Speaker 1: of China for working with us and ultimately approving the deal. Boy,
Speaker 1: there's nothing that makes me feel warmer or fuzzier than
Speaker 1: having the president of the United States gush about how
Speaker 1: great the Chinese, the dictator in China is and how
Speaker 1: wonderful it is to work with them, how great they
Speaker 1: get along.
Speaker 3: So reassuring the question about the data harvesting, Has that
Speaker 3: gotten any better, because that's probably the biggest national security concern.
Speaker 1: It's the same algorithm. They say, Oh, don't worry, it's
Speaker 1: going to stay in the United States. But again, Bite
Speaker 1: Dance has a twenty percent stake in all that, So
Speaker 1: what's preventing them from also, like if TikTok, if China
Speaker 1: wanted to use TikTok as a weapon of leverage, if
Speaker 1: they were using it to to gather dirt on people,
Speaker 1: if they're using it to track the locations of US
Speaker 1: service personnel or US government employees or something like that,
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Speaker 1: So yeah, we can close the barn door. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how much is going to mitigate the damage.
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Speaker 3: our teams are not buying for a conference championship, but
Speaker 3: that is not the story today. The story today is
Speaker 3: that a team that consistently over the past several years
Speaker 3: has competed for conference championships is now trying to figure
Speaker 3: out why, not only this year, but over a number
Speaker 3: of years, they've piled up more injuries and injuries to
Speaker 3: key players than just about any team in the league,
Speaker 3: in some cases more than any other team in the league.
Speaker 3: In fact, this year, they've sidelined about ninety five million
Speaker 3: dollars in salary as a result of injuries. And so
Speaker 3: when it comes to guys who have been lost by
Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers, it's been players like Nick Bosa
Speaker 3: and Torn acl Fred Warner broke an ankle. Those guys
Speaker 3: have been out most of the season. George kittletore achilles
Speaker 3: in the first playoff game against the Eagles first round
Speaker 3: draft pick tour in Acl. But even guys that didn't
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Speaker 3: receivers Ricky Piersoll and Juwan Jennings, they've missed serious playing time.
Speaker 3: But somehow, credit to coach Shanahan and his team, they've
Speaker 3: managed to make the playoffs and even get a playoff
Speaker 3: win in Philadelphia.
Speaker 2: But they're trying to figure out why this is happening.
Speaker 3: Could be a lot of different reasons, but one of
Speaker 3: the reasons that they're investigating, along with others, admittedly, is
Speaker 3: whether the electrical substation near their training facility and Levi
Speaker 3: Stadium where they play in Santa Clara, might have something
Speaker 3: to do with that, and general manager John Lynch says, Hey,
Speaker 3: it deals with allegedly the health and safety of our players.
Speaker 3: I think you at least have to take a look
Speaker 3: at it. We're reaching out to anyone and everyone to
Speaker 3: see is there even a study that exists on something
Speaker 3: like this. The Washington Post says, this is ridiculous, This
Speaker 3: is nonsense. There's no suggestion that exposure to electro motive
Speaker 3: force is what I mean, it's from these substations, could
Speaker 3: be related to all these injuries. But you know, as
Speaker 3: long as you're investigating everything, I guess if there is
Speaker 3: a way to test it, go ahead and do it.
Speaker 3: But I am skeptical that that's the case, because you know,
Speaker 3: it looks like that would be an unlikely reason for
Speaker 3: somebody to snap their ankle.
Speaker 2: But you know that could be me.
Speaker 1: I actually really like the response from John Lynch. He
Speaker 1: basically just tackles this the way he used to tackle
Speaker 1: posing running backs back when he was a safety. Just
Speaker 1: just hammers into it in the sense that he's saying
Speaker 1: that like, look, we don't know, we don't really have
Speaker 1: a lot of good evidence to point in this direction,
Speaker 1: but we're not going to leave any stone unturned. If
Speaker 1: there's a possibility this is a factor in player injuries,
Speaker 1: we will, you know, dig into it see if there's
Speaker 1: something we can do to address it. But he doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like he's a wide eyed conspiracy theorist either. Now
Speaker 1: I could make a lot of jokes about the Jets here,
Speaker 1: but I'm actually not going to. It always seems like
Speaker 1: your team is getting hurt by injuries much worse than
Speaker 1: other teams. I'm sure that's kind of a perception. You can,
Speaker 1: you know, quantify how many, how many there are and
Speaker 1: how serious they are. I think it was men's health.
Speaker 1: I was reading years ago somebody made the argument that
Speaker 1: an overwhelming majority of injuries that are involving ligaments, tendons,
Speaker 1: pulled muscles, stuff like that come from an imbalance in
Speaker 1: the body. We used to think of our you know,
Speaker 1: we used to looking like, oh, our arms are about
Speaker 1: the same length, our legs are about the same length.
Speaker 1: But if you really measure them, usually there's actually a
Speaker 1: slight difference. Usually people have like one arm that they're
Speaker 1: they're either left handed or right handed, and they prefer
Speaker 1: and you may have noticed your biceps a little bigger
Speaker 1: on that, you know, for me, that right arm, because
Speaker 1: that's the one I use the mouse for. But basicently,
Speaker 1: the gist is that, like our body is slightly imbalanced,
Speaker 1: and so at some point, particularly in football, you're running,
Speaker 1: you're cutting, you're trying to change direction, pressure on one
Speaker 1: side of the body is not the same as the
Speaker 1: other side, and that's when tendons, tear ligaments, tear muscles
Speaker 1: get pulled, stuff like that. I'm not a doctor, I'm not,
Speaker 1: you know, but that always seem to make sense to
Speaker 1: me as a likely reason for this. Now, could electrical
Speaker 1: fields have some sort of harmful effect on bodies and muscles?
Speaker 1: I suppose so. But Greg, how do you think an
Speaker 1: electrical field causes a turf toe?
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: The cause seems to be right there in the name
Speaker 1: turf that you know, you're getting caught on it and
Speaker 1: your foot doesn't, you know, move what the rest of
Speaker 1: your body does or something. The other one is if
Speaker 1: this is true, color me skeptical but willing to be persuaded.
Speaker 1: If there's new good data on this, Greg, what is
Speaker 1: the rate of electrical line repairmen and they're ACL and
Speaker 1: MCL tears? I have not heard. Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 1: was out working. I'm a lie because this substation somebody's
Speaker 1: got to be fixing it. Somebody's got to be coming
Speaker 1: in and checking on it. If that guy's not pulling
Speaker 1: muscles left and right, and if they're not tearing acls
Speaker 1: and out for the year, well then it kind of
Speaker 1: be like, why would the you know, the electrical waves
Speaker 1: be coming across onto the practice field? Also, like are
Speaker 1: the coaches having the same kind of things are the
Speaker 1: water boy is? If have they had severe turi? Like
Speaker 1: why would this old be affecting the players living? Do
Speaker 1: the residents nearby have a higher rate of injuries or
Speaker 1: something like that? If there isn't, it makes me think, well,
Speaker 1: there's probably something to do with what the players are doing,
Speaker 1: you know, anyone who you know. So it's been a
Speaker 1: long time complaint of Jets and Giants fans. The turf
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium is a disaster, and that that's where
Speaker 1: you see guys really, you know, planning their foot trying
Speaker 1: to change direction. Foot goes one way, the body goes
Speaker 1: the other, and you know you see something. You know,
Speaker 1: you hear pops, you hear stuff like that. Achilles tenddn't start,
Speaker 1: you know, snapping like like my patients in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and you just end up with this like like it
Speaker 1: generally would be factors beyond that. I'll be very surprised
Speaker 1: if proximity to an electrical substation is it, because otherwise
Speaker 1: you think this would be affecting everybody who lives close,
Speaker 1: not just to this one, how about every other electrical
Speaker 1: substation around. It has got to be one that's near
Speaker 1: a high school field. There's got to be one that's
Speaker 1: probably near some college practice field somewhere else in the country.
Speaker 1: Is this the only place in America where we have
Speaker 1: an athletic field next to an electrical substation. So again
Speaker 1: I'm skeptical, But also I want to say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: credit to the San Francisco forty nine ers for saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, this doesn't seem like a likely scenario,
Speaker 1: but you know what, we'll dig into it because we
Speaker 1: want to take care of our players. We want to
Speaker 1: avoid injuries. And by the way, there are way like
Speaker 1: certain teams do have their injury rates go down, and
Speaker 1: sometimes they have different stretching that they do, different training,
Speaker 1: different ways of attempting to recover from exertion. So there
Speaker 1: are factors that could be in this just color me
Speaker 1: skeptical that this is you know, some sort of you know,
Speaker 1: electrical attack upon the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: If it isn't a factor, the most plausible thing would
Speaker 3: be that, you know, consistent exposure to that somehow makes
Speaker 3: recovery difficult or erodes your ability. I mean, these athletes
Speaker 3: are doing more intense activity than the average people in
Speaker 3: the neighborhood, but in terms of its effect on your
Speaker 3: overall health, can't hurt to look into it. And I
Speaker 3: think you're right about the attitude. And if there's any
Speaker 3: team you know that you could probably consult on this,
Speaker 3: I guess it.
Speaker 2: Would be the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Ah. I was kind of waiting for that.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Real quick, Jim, this massive storm it's going to
Speaker 3: head from I think Texas all the way to all
Speaker 3: the way to the East coast, through the South and
Speaker 3: then up the East coast, and we're supposed to get
Speaker 3: hit late Saturday night through Sunday, maybe into Monday. But
Speaker 3: this has gone from a snow event to a snow,
Speaker 3: sleet and possible freezing rain event where we are, and
Speaker 3: further south it's almost entirely ice. So this has gone
Speaker 3: from you know, we're getting a few days off of
Speaker 3: school to possibly a few days without power. For some folks.
Speaker 3: That's getting a little bit more difficult there. So hopefully
Speaker 3: you're hunkering down. And I know it's high population area,
Speaker 3: so hopefully our listeners are too.
Speaker 1: So first of all, Greg, right before we started taping,
Speaker 1: the National Weather Service put out a new update. They
Speaker 1: said there's now a ninety to ninety five percent chance
Speaker 1: that the next couple of days are going to bring
Speaker 1: an insufferable amount of ice. Immigration's custom Enforcement jokes. Ice
Speaker 1: is coming. Ice is all over the country. Ice is everywhere.
Speaker 1: You're going to get a lot of that. I just
Speaker 1: want to point out that next Fairfax County Public Schools
Speaker 1: has the kids off for Thursday and Friday, end of
Speaker 1: the quarter. Teachers have to grades and get everything in there,
Speaker 1: and it's a half day on Wednesday, the twenty eighth.
Speaker 2: They're not to at school this week, right, it's.
Speaker 1: A week off. You know, at this point it is
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon, and I know, there's like the odds of
Speaker 1: my kid going to school next week are exceptionally small. Monday,
Speaker 1: you know, again, it sounds like there's gonna be a
Speaker 1: bunch of snow and ice. Fairfax County apparently has more
Speaker 1: school buses than any other jurisdiction in the country, which
Speaker 1: seems weird, but then you realize that like New York
Speaker 1: City public schools LA public schools, they're much more densely packed, right,
Speaker 1: so you're not as much need for a school bus.
Speaker 1: So we can go. Fairfax County is fairly large. A
Speaker 1: million people live here, and you have a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of roads, and so I looked out. You know, my
Speaker 1: roads usually get cleared pretty early in a snowstorm, but
Speaker 1: there are parts where they don't clear all of them,
Speaker 1: and like, oh, we can't have school buses out on
Speaker 1: icy roads and stuff like that. So Monday's almost certainly
Speaker 1: out of that. I'm kind of surprised. Probably immediately after
Speaker 1: the end of us taping this, I will get the
Speaker 1: message we're already closing for Monday. Yeah, Tuesday's not Tuesday
Speaker 1: is going to be at least a delayed opening. Oh
Speaker 1: and what right? And so the thing is you're probably
Speaker 1: off Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday's a half day. So
Speaker 1: at that point the school board's been like, nah, forget it,
Speaker 1: we're out for the week. Enjoy it. You know, a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, they are a couple years ago,
Speaker 1: is a twenty twenty one. I'm absolutely sure they had
Speaker 1: gotten the kids back to school and then Omicron was
Speaker 1: going on, so we got, you know, a decent snow on,
Speaker 1: like you know, over the weekend. So they closed Monday,
Speaker 1: then Tuesday, then Wednesday, Thursday, frind they just closed the
Speaker 1: entire week. It wasn't because of Omicron. It wasn't because
Speaker 1: people were sick. It was totally because of the weather.
Speaker 1: Wink wink. So yes, you know this is this is
Speaker 1: a as I like to say, Fairfax County, the everybody,
Speaker 1: the teachers, the actually I should say the teachers, the
Speaker 1: school board, and the people who make the decisions act
Speaker 1: like metaphorical snowflakes over literal snowflakes.
Speaker 3: Now, Omicron is that one of the COVID strains that
Speaker 3: we couldn't name after the country that it started in, Yes,
Speaker 3: Okay turned into.
Speaker 1: When we suddenly got attacked by the Greek gods.
Speaker 2: Yes exactly.
Speaker 1: Wellma Crime was also my least favorite transformer.
Speaker 3: Well a shout out also to my Upper Midwest people
Speaker 3: have been under below zero four they get real days
Speaker 3: and days and days woke up today. I looked at
Speaker 3: the temperatures in my hometown. Minus seventeen feels like minus
Speaker 3: twenty eight. So and it's been like that for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks now at least. So it's it's brutal
Speaker 3: and a lot of different places. Be smart, stay safe.
Speaker 3: Hopefully the kids can have some fun with this snow,
Speaker 3: and hopefully we're through it all in a few days.
Speaker 3: So anyway, Jim, have a good weekend, and so we've
Speaker 3: got some power.
Speaker 2: We'll see you on Monday.
Speaker 1: Because we tape from home. See them Monday, everybody.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, Jim Garretty, National Review. I'm Greg Corumbus of
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