that a chief diversity officer, that they didn't have a chief risk officer, and finally got one appointed the end of January, which is probably kind of late. Part of its management, the mismanagement and interests, I mean, you can go both sides, and part of it is a macroeconomic problem caused by our Federal Reserve. It's a combination here. But it's tragic. I still believe it didn't have to happen. Hi, my name is Anne McElhenney. And I'm Phelan McAleer. Welcome to the Anne and Phelham Scoop. Yes. It's the week of St. Patrick's Day. So there will be a bit of a St. Patrick's Day theme at the end of the show. As long as you're from Ireland, there's a welcome on the mat. That's enough of that. So we watched the Oscars, so you don't have to. We're going to talk to, we're going to talk a little bit about the Oscars today. The Irish were robbed. The Irish were robbed. And later we're going to talk to Laura. Etchevaria. Echeveria of the National Right to Life

about the recent lawsuits

challenging the Texas abortion ban

and what else we can expect, by the way,

in a post-rural America.

And the really extreme abortion legislation

that's happening all over America at the moment

that you won't read about in the mainstream media.

And we talked to our friend Jim Thornton about the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.

Jim actually has worked with the Silicon Valley Bank in his past and has a unique insights into

the macro picture and the smaller picture of how the bank grew and how it changed.

And as I said, it is St. Patrick's Day.

So St. Patrick's Day this week in coming up in a couple of days.

And so we have a fabulous Irish recipe with little twist.

Slightly not the exact recipe that it should be.

But very, yes.

Okay, you're not going to miss that.

But first we watch the Oscars again, you know, because we do these things. We sacrifice ourselves and we watch them. So you didn't have to. Can I just say we also sacrifice ourselves for you guys to watch an awful lot of the Oscar movies. Correct. Oscar nominated movies. Yeah, actually, yeah, you know. And some of them, some of them, anyway, with mixed results. Well, the mixed results.

Yes.

Everything ever were all at once. We think... I thought it was great. Yeah, and deservedly won most of the Oscars. But there's very mixed opinion on everything everywhere, all at once. A lot of people, you know, It didn't work for a lot of people.

And I just thought it was very creative and kind of excitingly creative In a very dull Hollywood That seems to be doing the same thing Over and over again It was creative, yeah Pushed the gay thing A lot of course But this is a Hollywood movie So it has to At least it didn't push the transgender thing I don't think No it didn't No I don't think it did No who knows But you never know, you know. It's so common think. No, it didn't. Actually, I don't, no, I don't think it did.

No, who knows?

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