Le Show For The Week Of April 6, 2025
Le Show
Harry Shearer
4.6 • 972 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here it is! |
| 0:01.0 | From deep inside your audio device of choice. |
| 0:06.0 | You know, ladies gentlemen, this program has been on the air, you know, like forever. |
| 0:12.0 | So it's incumbent upon me, I think, to continually introduce new features into the show, |
| 0:20.0 | or the show, as it were it were as it is and hence |
| 0:24.8 | this week introducing the chain saw massacre well you know he chainsaw massacre. |
| 0:46.4 | Well, you know, Elon Musk took a chainsaw onto the stage at the CPAC, I think, convention in February, and I said, we'll make mistakes. |
| 0:53.7 | Well, that's one pledge he's kept. Some of the roughly |
| 0:57.8 | 10,000 employees fired from the Department of Health and Human Services are being asked to come back. |
| 1:04.9 | The agency's secretary, Robert McKeonleady, said that mass firings were consistent with the government goals to purge the federal workforce, |
| 1:14.8 | but said 20% of them were made in error. Just tell me what you could do. |
| 1:23.2 | 20% of it would be wrong, and you wouldn't be fired. Oh, but these people were, but they weren't. |
| 1:29.5 | Quote, personnel that should not have been cut or cut were reinstating them. |
| 1:33.7 | And that was always the plan, he said, adding, we'll make mistakes. |
| 1:39.2 | We'll make mistakes, is what he said. |
| 1:41.7 | Terminating an entire team dedicated to lead poisoning and prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| 1:49.2 | That was among the mistakes, he said. |
| 1:54.4 | Quote, part of the doge. |
| 1:56.8 | We talked about this from the beginning is we're going to do 80% cuts, but 20% of those are going to have to be reinstated because we'll make mistakes, according to Kennedy. |
| 2:09.9 | The city of Milwaukee, which had been working with the CDC to respond to lead found in the city's water, announced internally this week, quote, |
| 2:20.0 | we will not be able to continue due to the loss of subject matter experts, according to CBS News, |
| 2:26.3 | asked about the lead program being cut during an event on Thursday. |
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