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Delighted to have you with me here today.

It is cold in my office.

Just saying that, I'm,

I think I have the heat turned off in the studio because otherwise it blows on stuff.

But my goodness gracious,

I need a jacket,

which I don't have.

That's all right.

I got to begin with a random story.

I want to up front. I want to say this up front. It's not a huge deal except how loudly it says something.

The vice president and her husband, the second gentleman of the United States, they call him,

the first female vice president, so she has the first male second lady, becomes the second gentleman.

And he's Jewish.

Doug Emhoff is his name.

He put up a tweet.

Well, someone using his account and that's kind of the point here, follow along with me here, put up a tweet.

It's a picture of the vice president and her husband lighting a menorah. Let me read for you the tweet. The story of

Hanukkah and the story of the Jewish people has always been one of hope and resilience.

In the Hanukkah story, the Jewish people were forced into hiding.

No one thought they would survive or that the few drops of oil they had would last.

But they survived and the oil kept burning.

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