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Welcome back to the DIRS show.

We're going to have just short weeks this week and next week because tomorrow night is Christmas Eve.

Nobody wants to watch me talk about the world on Christmas Eve, and nobody wants to watch me on Christmas Day.

You much prefer to watch football. So this week is just tonight. We're going to skip Tuesday and Wednesday.

And New Year's the same thing. We'll do Monday night and, you know, Tuesday. We have to get ready for New Year's Eve.

You know, my midnight is usually 10 o'clock, so I think we're going get ready for New Year's Eve. You know, my midnight is usually

10 o'clock, so I think we're going to have our New Year's Eve celebrations probably around

around nine and be asleep by midnight and Wednesday. You know, again, people are going to want

to be with their family. So just this week and next week, just Monday. After that, we're back to Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

So before we get to Mangione, I want to talk about two things.

Number one, President Biden has commuted the sentence of everybody on death row except for three people.

Now, two of them are understandable.

You know, the guy who shut up, the black church and the guy who shot up the Jewish synagogue and killed so many people.

That's understandable that they would be excluded. What I don't understand is why he excluded the shooter,

the killer, at the Boston Marathon, Sarniaf. The guy was like a kid at the time

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