Welcome everybody to the young Turks. My name is Francesca Fioran-Tini here with David Schuster.

Because Anna and Jenk are both sick today.

Sure.

They left it all on the table last week, David. I don't know if you were tuning in.

I'm sure you were, but also busy with your own work. And I think after that Rokana debate

and interview, Jenk was like, peace, my work here is done.

Or it could be that they simply had an axe to grind Francesca with you and me and said,

okay, you guys take over this Lamborghini kind of machine and see how you drive it.

Well, we gonna drive it, baby. We're like, yeah, we're definitely babysitting the car.

We're like the valet. Sure, we'll take care of it slash, take it for a spin.

But thank you guys all for being here. Make sure you are liking and sharing that stream

right now. We get so much good news. And by good, I mean bad and funny and interesting

news. It's never really good, is it? But David's with me for the first hour and the second

hour, Adrian Lawrence, of course, also from Rebel HQ was gonna be in the hot seat,

taking us through all these different stories. So buckle up, it's gonna be good. David,

what's up first?

Well, let's start with something that's kind of family friendly. So Big Bird, Big Bird

has ruffled some conservative feathers this week after announcing that he had been vaccinated

for COVID-19. As a lot of you know, Big Bird has been a fixture on television,

a children's television since the 1960s. He's officially though six years old. And the

announcement this week from Big Bird, and there's Ted Cruz, it wasn't happy about it. The announcement

this week from Big Bird was intended to try to help people understand that kids are now

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