Welcome to the Katie Alpha Show. Hi Leslie. How are you? I'm good. How's it going? Oh, it's

okay. You know, I had some tech issues that's never fun. The show must go on. Even not

on time. Yeah. We are here. Thank you all so much for joining us. Happy to see you. We're

very grateful. It's very fun. We have some great, great, great guests. We always have great co-hosts

and that includes, of course, Leslie Lee. Thank you. Welcome back. And today, on our show,

we have Ron Yakalik, journalist, fearless journalist, Ron Yakalik, and she'll be talking about

Syria. I also wanted to give people the chance to become patron supporters. I also want to thank

all the people who are patron supporters because people have joined since this week, even. So,

I want to give a big shout out to all of those people. What else? Leslie. Dr. Seuss was canceled.

Oh, yes. Dr. Seuss was canceled. Yeah. So why is he he's bad? He didn't like Japanese people. Is that

correct? Uh, he has some rate just racist cartoons. It's nothing new. Nothing new to Dr. Seuss.

People have been talking about this for forever. So they just said they're going to take a couple of

the books out of print, but like they have like the 25 other ones. Like I mean, the, the unique

really. That is, I mean, really, what if what it was just a couple of books that they had burned?

Leslie, really, just a couple of books. Wow. Wow. And I thought I had an ally here. But it is

funny. I mean, what is the, I don't know what the like calculate. Is it a numbers game? Is it like

the numbers or is it the availability or is it what determines whether how canceled something is

or you for you? This isn't even cancellation. Yeah. This doesn't count. There's just books going

out of print. This happens all the hot. This happens all the time. The books. This is like the people,

the people. What are the books? What are the books? Do we know there? There's, yeah, there's a list

and you're probably not there was only one that anybody even pretended to know, which is something

about Mulberry Street, something something Mulberry Street. I don't know it, but it is a

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