It's Wednesday, December 9th. I'm Achilles Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Resseneck, and this is what a day where we were sad that we've had fewer opportunities to hear Christmas music in big box stores this year.

Yeah, you know that song that just says Christmas a bunch is like Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Right. I feel like I haven't heard anybody say Christmas that many times in succession, and it's actually hurting my holiday spirit.

Yeah, this is the war on Christmas that has been talked about for years and years, and it's finally here, and I don't like it.

Yeah, they really brought their army.

On today's show, a blue wave of progressive DA's getting sworn in, then some headlines.

But first the latest.

I said, what's this thing you're doing the vaccination? Is it yes?

And then there's been various times asking the questions about this net, not very interesting.

And I said, yes, no, yes, no. And they said, we'll come at up a 12. Of course, I couldn't damn well find anywhere to park my car.

So I was late.

Anyway, I'm here now, and I got inside, and they do really put me on a list.

I went off and had rather nasty lunch and then came back, and they were ready for me.

And no, it didn't hurt at all. I didn't know the need to go on in until it come out.

That was 91 year old Martin Kenyon talking about his fairly mundane day, including difficulty finding parking, a nasty lunch.

And oh, of course, being among the first people in the UK to receive the Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus vaccine yesterday was filled with a lot of these hopeful anecdotes, including a guy legitimately named William Shakespeare, being among the first people to get the vaccine.

And it comes at a dark moment in the pandemic, specifically for the US, the UK and Europe.

Yeah, so this is the slow start of us getting out of this one William Shakespeare at a time for this particular vaccine, the UK has enough at the moment for an estimated 400,000 people.

Their population is around 67 million, so it's going to take quite some time to pull this off.

But one of the other things that Kenyon showed during his interview, the caught some attention was this small vaccination card that's meant to indicate that he had received the first dose.

While they are not ID cards per se, the New York Times reported that there are some preemptive questions about whether they could be used to essentially divide society up between people who have and haven't been vaccinated, granting the former access at the latter might not get.

So health officials in the UK have said that they are just for reminding people when they should actually go back in after three weeks for the second shot.

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