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we will take it easy on the memes. Monday, February 1st, 2021, from

Slate is the gist I might pass. Let me just say, February 1st, as a Monday, is the best

of all the days. Because the 28-day month means it's a multiple of seven. Means you go

1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd. It's a really easy way to organize a month. Thank you, February

2021. 2021's looking up. Unless you're say a Nobel Prize winner. See, there's some

international news I've been meaning to get to. We have domestic events to concentrate

on. But I have some notes in my file, some international stories, for instance, in Thailand,

the worst thing you could call someone is a monitor lizard. I don't know why I didn't

get too much into it, but don't call someone that. That's one of the international notes

I wanted to get to. The second one was, all these Nobel Peace Prize winners are doing

unpeaceful things. I was noticing a trend. Here's the 2019 Nobel announcement from Berrit

Reese Anderson, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

Well, Ahmed tried and now he's not trying so much. To be fair, the current conflict that

he's engaged in is not with Eritrea, but with the Tigray region. Still, the Nobel Peace

Prize winner is crushing a rebellion there. It's a hard job. I understand. Nobel Peace

Prize winners are in saints and no one exemplifies that truth more than, Anson Suchi, the Peace

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