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Thank you. Rise and shine, everybody. Welcome to Hot Topics. It's Monday morning. I hope you had a great weekend. I hope you had, I don't know if you saw my social media post yesterday, I hope you had a great World Press Freedom Day because it's one of the most important days on the calendar, especially considering what's happening in this country, where our leaders are mimicking authoritarian and

authoritarian and dictators. So, good morning. Welcome to Hot Topics. Where are you streaming from? And, oh, hi, Marilyn. You guys already know the drill. Make sure you hit the like and the thumbs up. So more people become aware our conversation in our channel yeah I hate this I have progressive lenses and so in

order to read I have to do this and I'm always it makes me feel like an old man

and you know I'm a young whippa snapper how was weekend? Now I had to drive this weekend and I'm just going to tell

you maybe this is people are going to think, oh my God, he's such a progressive, he's such a

live or whatever. Okay. I have an electric car now. And so driving for me was there was no angst.

I did not, although I did have to get gas for a car that I keep,

an older car that I keep just because I had to get gas.

And it was $60 to fill up a car, something that I just used, like to haul trash and move boxes and

okay, I mean, come on now. Like a weekend car. Not to haul trash, but like move stuff and to

get around. It's crazy.

Belgium is here.

Who's the furthest?

Okay, so this morning I want to talk about everything Donald Trump touches dies.

And I thought about it because this is not just, I don't mean literally dying.

I mean like irony is dead.

That does it.

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