Welcome and happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to Redacted on this Wednesday, the first Wednesday of the new year. I'm Clayton Morris.

I'm Natalie Morris. And on this show, we seek the truth wherever it may take us. We don't do the stories of the mainstream media covers.

What are you looking for me for? Yes, that's true. Well, you know, it's New Year. I'm just like, it's new year I'm just like it's like two weeks

we've been off for two weeks and you're like oil can hang on a second click click click click yeah it's

like I need that from the wizard of Oz holy smokes um do you want me to take it from here darling

no it's good to be back it's good to be back in the studio holy smokes words what words, what words coming out of my mouth. Welcome back to the new year. This is redacted. So glad to have you all here. I mean, we've been doing this show now for well over almost going on two years now or so. And, and it's great to be able to like take the time off to reset, to think about what we want to accomplish for the new year, and come back and do a kick-ass show.

Yeah, it is.

I'm happy to be back.

I think Clayton's happy to be back.

I'm very happy to be back.

Let's see what happens, you guys.

Redacted starts right now. Thank you. I'm going to

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you know, Just as you were mocking me about having false starts about the show, Natalie just skipped all of the news stories in tonight's show.

I know.

We're going off script.

Okay, so let's tell them what they can expect.

I was like, whoa, whoa, where's that button? Where's that button? Sorry. Yes. Sorry. See, that's called karma. It's instant karma. So we do have a very busy show for you on this Wednesday. We've got a lot of stories we're going to cover here on the show. So here's the rundown. Let's put that up on the screen. Thank you, Philip. So we're talking about COVID mandates returning. So 11 states already have different

versions of COVID mandates, ranging from mask mandates to vaccine mandates, already in place.

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