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Later in the show for this Friday, we'll have two episodes of our WNYC Centennial series,

A Hundred Years of a Hundred Things, and they're both about magazines.

We'll do 100 years of the New Yorker, now celebrating its own centennial, and around 1130, ahead of the Grammy Awards this weekend, we'll do 100 years of the Billboard Music Charts.

And for that one, we'll play Name That Tune and give away Brian Laira Show tote bags, our pro-democracy tote, and we'll invite you to call in and say what the biggest hit song

from your high school years was from whenever you went to high school, at least as you remember

it. So we'll have some fun today with 100 years of the New Yorker and the Billboard music charts,

but we'll start on the news. Here is maybe the moment of the biggest concern for RFK Jr. from the two days of confirmation

hearings he just sat through to be Health and Human Services Secretary.

This is from yesterday's hearing in the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

The speaker is Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who is also a physician.

Now, my responsibility is to learn, try and determine if you can be trusted to support the best public health.

A worthy movement called Maha

to improve the health of Americans

or to undermine it always asking for more evidence

and never accepting the evidence that is there.

And that is why I've been struggling with your nomination.

There are issues we are, man, ultra-process processed food, obesity, we are, we're sympathetic.

We're completely aligned.

And as someone who has discussed immunizations with thousands of people, I understand that mothers want reassurance

that the vaccine their child is receiving is necessary, safe, and effective.

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