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and it all comes down to this. This is Cory and this is the O The Anthem podcast good

afternoon everybody its Rob welcome to episode 242 of the O The Anthem at the

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line four four three two and nine seven nine five what's it number again four

four three two and nine seven five nine five you have to excuse us because we're

both patiently waiting for only three minutes left

yes and our fantasy football games are one of my fantasy football games is in

the flux the other one I lost by 46 points Thank You Christian McCaffrey I

hate you very much anyway so this football game not the most interesting

part of our Thanksgiving Day weekend though Corey no not at all big weekends

what okay what did you get into this weekend well the most important thing is

that Brendan came down to visit brother Bremen flight down Thursday and then if

there's a Wednesday Wednesday is the day that berthing came down and yeah it was

pretty good it's Turkey that's my Brendan impression yes anybody who's

struggling for a minute like if it's not like all my words were very worried very

articulate very plan for that reason and I saw that Rachel got you out of the

apartment yes in a button-up long-sleeve shirt

yeah on the west side of Los Angeles yeah I know which only means that

Brendan must be here there's no other reason why all of those things would be

true well yeah I mean like Brendan was the one who said

let's go to let's go to Santa Monica and I think okay

usually I just need a reason to go to Santa Monica yeah and a reason that

doesn't include me being there like six o'clock you know right I don't want to

like it it's it's pretty well known here in Los Angeles that if you live on the

west side and you're inviting somebody who lives on the east side to hang out

or downtown or downtown I mean like you know we're more east of the west side

though that's anywhere east of La Brea I guess okay I would consider the east

side for this this purpose that's real far west for you anyway okay

sure sure LaBrea yeah the brain is like I could

throw a rock and hit the west side from the Brea it's not that far right we're

getting real local I knew it yes so anybody who's on the west side

yeah it just makes it it always seemed like people were like hey come over to

my place for dinner at 6:30 on the west side I'm just like nope 45 I'm not

trying to do all that I'm not trying to make all these extra steps yeah I mean I

like you just not that much like you right yes but it was actually this

weekend it was great because everyone left LA but Thanksgiving Day holidays as

we've talked about nobody actually is from LA so during Thanksgiving and how

there are holidays like it people leave the city of Los Angeles and go elsewhere

like I did flew to El Paso El Paso Texas City that's exactly right

yeah did you know El Paso Texas elevation

4,000 feet hmm so not quite the mile-high City but pretty high up what

we would call the high desert here in California where it gets very hot in the

day very cold at night and at a high altitude but it was nice

and we got to see some family and got to meet new people and dog bites and

stories that will live forever I mean just generally it was a it was an

interesting weekend and I have to say yeah I've spent a lot of time making fun

of Texas Texas is a place that is it should be May 5 didn't frankly let's

just say it should be made fun of

you could buy sixty acres that is a 15-minute drive from downtown El Paso

for $50,000 yeah and I said say what like sixty acres for 50,000 that in

Maryland I definitely couldn't get that in California that's a hell of a deal

you can barely get 1/6 of an acre for $50,000 I don't think you could get 1/6

of an acre I feel like I couldn't get an acre of air in a building for $50,000

you know just just the right to build a condo there yeah yeah yeah but uh yeah

so what was interesting it's like that time when we went to Vegas for dirty 30

yeah we were just like chit-chatting with the with the cab driver because I

don't think uber was there in Vegas at the time now it wasn't actually they

actually took a real cab yeah and we were in the cabin we were just sort of

like you know bullshit and we're just like so uh you live in Vegas he's like

yeah you know I live you know just a short walk away from the strip and it's

like oh what's your what's your rent look like he's like that's a little bit

high I mean it's a it's a two-bedroom and I think we're spending like off the

strip yeah two bedroom and it's about like $900 or something like that and

we're like $900 each he's like no no $900 of the whole thing all right then

oh so many people in that blue oh yeah so anyway Texas wide open and everything

was very cheap and I didn't see as many guns as I thought I would everybody has

them but they don't actually take them out

just keep them keep on the low down yeah I can West Texas is like oh and I got a

gun safe it's there there I just don't have them people in Socorro which is

actually where I was not I'll pass I was in Socorro Texas keep animals in the

back yard I had a horse if anybody follows me on instagram at Robert and

cheek you would have seen a picture of a horse that I stumbled into when I went

out the back door to get some fresh air and I go there's a horse here hello

horse yeah there's a dog in the house hey dog you want to come out to the back

oh wait there's a horse back here this is weird

oh yeah so people just keep goats and horses and cow

in their backyard I so I drove through Texas once yeah like on the way I mean

like I've been there here and there for different things but I never really got

to explore the most the most I've been able to like sort of explore Texas was

my drive back from film school yeah the 2013 and all I could think to

myself is just like god it must be intolerable so there's so much space

that it's just like you're so far away from everything but it sort of got the

same I mean like in Maryland at the very least I could say to somebody like you

know like I could meet somebody new and be like where do you live and almost

anywhere where they say is going to be within charitably two hours from where I

live yes like there's no way that you could you know with somebody in

California I could say where do you live and they could live all the way up near

Oregon yeah and it could be like a 15 hour drive or you could be like you know

oh I'm in El Paso it's like where do you live Dallas it's like okay so that's

fucking seven hours away or eight hours but again that's like California

California is a big State ya know what it'd be somebody or

somebody could say hey where do you live oh I live on the San Gabriel all right

15 hours that's cool it's a long drive sure yeah but yeah that's what they were

talking about people that they have family in Houston they have friends in

Houston it's an eight-hour drive sometimes you make the eight-hour Drive

but I mean for us that's like Ocean City to that we went to Detroit in eight

hours we drove to Detroit in eight hours yeah that's like all of these for a

special occasion I mean we went to Detroit on a special occasion we didn't

go there just for the fun of it we would I would I live you know in the middle of

Texas no I'll pass was the third largest city in Texas is it yes if you include

all the Metroplex because by that definition Fort Worth Dallas Fort Worth

is a single Metroplex but it's two separate cities now yeah two separate

cities with a single Metroplex yeah and then the El Paso Socorro Juarez

Metroplex and a Houston metro player it's bigger than Austin though yes

really according to our hosts yes the city in Texas I feel like Austin was

numb three yeah followed by maybe San

Francisco and then El Paso San Francisco or San Antonio yeah it's also my thinkin

it's only the it's also the with the large the only major Texas city in

mountain time which we figured out because I set my clock forward manually

and then had to set it back in another hour because I went too far forward but

I felt like guy should be the guy who gets a hat and boots felt like I was

gonna be the thing I was gonna do it's like I'm kind of person I do like that

whenever you go somewhere you automatically like start like figuring

out how you're going to acclimate to this place you know yeah well my

traveling partner wore her boots to the airport which seems like a bad idea

in my mind not the worst thing we took to the airport different story for

personal or that's a friendly that's a friendly story

Fred's only sorry but you know and then war did not wear her boots the entire

time but they're actually in Texas just so so just to clarify for the podcast I

use because I don't want them spreading your El Paso lies share number one is

Houston has to be expected number two is San

Antonio number three is Dallas and then I guess if we're including the Arlington

part of it yes then Dallas Arlington would or I'm sorry dallas fort worth

arlington which is all part of those metrics yeah wait technically probably

eclipse yeah that would eclipse Houston yeah

it's number one yeah yeah but I'm saying Austin is fourth and then Fort Worth is

five and then El Paso is six so I'll pass it becomes

three if you bump Arlington no it's just forward just Fort Worth Fort Worth and

Dallas together you're making three Austin would be four and then I'll pass

it would be five okay five so five if you're not splitting all these things up

anyway it's a very large place very nice place everyone should visit El Paso I

got to see a stretch of the border wall which was interesting

what's the 26 biggest city in Texas Tech's Arkana

it's denim denim I'm gonna be funny of you you would have Denton for for

Hollywood and then went from from there to Denton Texas what major screenplay or

movie takes place in Denton Texas mm-hmm I don't know trivia trivia what is it

the Rocky Horror Picture yes indeed I didn't so I did not get boots I did not

get a hat talking about making a trip down to the ranch seconds left to score

four points Tennessee let me down they will unfortunately Houston's on the

field so it's not gonna I think we're both gonna be out of luck on this one so

that's unfortunate fortunately for me it means that I am

going in still first in the playoffs I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure that's

that's it for me yeah assuming I might have to do one of those like alright so

every single matchup has to go down this exact way for me to win anyway so we're

talking about maybe going to the ranch in sonora going to the our fingers

grocery or some point adjustments yeah maybe some places if one point is what I

need the legs anyway I think about going down to the Arizona family ranch at some

point maybe not for New Year's but some point soon maybe I'll get a cowboy hat

and a pair boots down there if I'm gonna go ride a horse and now maybe you rope

some cattle yeah shoot some deer and then maybe after that you can try and

bring back the urban cowboy thing I mean maybe I feel like if anybody could bring

it back it would be me you're the rugged go looks of the urban cowboy I think so

I think that's I don't know my character on Red Dead Redemption looks a lot like

me with his hair style and his beard so I think that's I think going to Texas

right after a huge round of Red Dead Redemption for you is like I'm looking a

little shot I'm just like thank God nobody gave me a

gun I would have just gone crazy shoot the gunsmith yes what'd he do he

was there no he's got an illegal poker game upstairs I was just gonna rob the

poker game and then I lasso the wrong person $700 worth of bounty later it's a

problem it's a problem anyway oh that's right Dave redemption talk highway so

but Thanksgiving was great it was great to meet people is great to be in El Paso

I really enjoyed it I recommend to everybody travel there you had a

discipling rivalry that went to uh okay mr. Brendan on both ends by like three

hours yeah which also made was longest longest

weekend Accord slightly yeah which doesn't mean I drove to and from LAX

eight different times what I would say is in the future we should really

communicate better well so here's the other thing too Rachel went with me to

pick up Brendon and to pick up you guys yes mostly because you don't have to pay

any tolls if you have HOV people in the express lane with Fast Pass well I mean

with the Fast Pass and the HOV oh yeah zero dollars and toll if you could say

I'm at Plus right right yeah so Rachel graciously agreed to go with

me on both both times but then she was also like you know like the plane lands

at 6:30 so we have to leave here by 5:45 and I'm like no I want to be on the road

I want to be on the 105 when they land that would be the best-case scenario see

I'm like it but we went and ya know if I'm at the 110 105 interchange by the

time you land then the remaining 20 minutes or so that'll take me to get to

LAX is usually the amount of time it'll take for you to get out of the airport

but we were in the reserved southern terminal which is only American Eagle so

is that the one that's like in the middle of everything

yeah you have to take a bus yeah yeah yeah like your bus is passing planes on

the tarmac right yeah and it's scary shit that's one where yeah so I was

saying to Rachel like when when I when she was giving me the pieces of

information that she thought that was going to help her cause of me leaving

earlier yes and then like we're on the 110 and she's just like oh

they're waiting for the bus to get from their terminal I'm just leaving

I know exactly what fucking terminal there is yes there's no way we're in the

worst fucking term I'll ever be here's the problem lax you can go right in like

you can you can take the highway and then get off and get on Sepulveda and

get into LAX yeah it's annoying but you know it's easy enough but the problem is

if the person isn't there you have to do this I have to drive 20 miles away from

the airport and find someplace to park yes and then start heading back yes and

then that's when it becomes complicated that's why I don't want to like I would

rather given I think I could have left when you told us that you landed

probably that's probably the best time to have left yeah did you guys go to the

cellphone ah no just made it ran yeah well we just went to you know to the

area of LAX and then I didn't get on Sepulveda I just sort of drove around

randomly okay until eventually I heard that you were there yeah so we were for

anybody who knows LAX we were in yeah Cory can he does have a man bunny I'm

sorry Ashley is watching in the in the chat for those of you who are listening

to this on recording and not live on facebook.com forward slash or the anthem

which it should be you join us in a chat Ashley is with us a fan of the show

Ashley in the chat asking if Cory has a man but now currently it's not in the

form of man now it's just long see so when the I take the headphones and I

just sort of like push it back yeah so when it does that it creates that sort

of like however heavy effect up here but I can definitely man yes and he was man

bunting it all weekend long well well not what I'm cleaning and the hair goes

in your face and it's really annoying I know a lot of the women know what I'm

talking about when when the hair just like falls down

you get it out of your face so that's what I do I just run it up alternatively

I have a plan cut my hair cut your yes by the way I not sponsoring the show at

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care of me they're struggling to get by I'm already Oh God Ashley's in support

of the man bun sorry Ashley a nice yes honey I enjoyed that

Oh Ashley also has a man bun rocking right now so good for you good for you

actually I'll but no it's when your hair gets to a certain length it's the only

way to operate I like it nobody likes it that's that true people

like it comfortable it's got to be hot annoying yeah but then I'm gonna get

home to Maryland and aren't I gonna be glad I have a lot of hair I mean I or

you just put on a hat like I'm gonna do doesn't have you got one of those Elmer

Fudd hats yeah and then you get to wear one of those cool Russian hats I mean I

feel like it's the best anyway so um yeah you made a lot trips the airport

but we gave you the fast pass so that was fine

that that by the way is worth its weight in gold yes just being able to fast pass

past all the fast pass pass all the traffic yes got it

it's a LAX is I'm sure it real quick just because I I saw this a lot last

week and I wanted to make a note about it there were a lot of people sharing

videos of what la traffic looks like right now pre-thanksgiving day rush yes

and they're just showing like helicopter shots of like lines of white headlights

and red taillights I'm an opposite size and it just looks

like it's nothing about a parking lot yeah but if you look carefully those

cars are actually moving yes very very slowly but moving

and the the thing that most people don't understand is this is what it's like

every single day I know you guys think it's bad it's not that bad I was like

watching these videos I'm like oh it's Tuesday

the 405 is jammed of it and also they always go to the 405 yeah it's always a

parking lot on the 405 the 101 on one on Wednesday was amazing I got to work in

like four and a half minutes I was like what going across multiple lanes I'm

cruising at 80 miles an hour yeah it's like try on the 10 while when we went to

Santa Monica and stuff like that was just like cruising along I'm just like

this is wonderful have the city's gone nobody actually from it'd be wonderful

wonderful just 40% of the city decided to leave at Clips work or or plague I'm

just saying yeah we don't have enough place we need another plague to say

guillotines I mean guillotines also work

unfortunately and most of the people on the road are the people I think probably

deserve a guillotine so I mean in the end every guillotine is a solution for

everything moving on so Thanksgiving was good here Brendon was here oh my whole

point but that was we need to plan better because I did not get to see

Brendan at all because we left and then three hours later he arrived yeah and

then he left and for our know 12 hours later no he left early early in the

morning he was like there at 8:00 and then we got in at 6:00

so arrived so we've got a plan those things better that one I don't feel so

bad on the one I do feel bad one was Wednesday when we our flight can't left

it too and he's got in at 4:00 know like sexers okay and and being able to leave

and go back wasn't as bad as I thought of it like my concern was that with the

beam Wednesday before Thanksgiving it was going to be the worst day Tuesday

was probably actually the worst day yeah traffic but like Wednesday I was able to

get back to downtown relatively quickly fast and only uh two things la Transit

one can we put more fast passing lanes everywhere yeah I mean honestly I would

get one if there was any way I mean I never go out east on

10 which is where some of the lanes are right the only other one is the one 10

which is the place I don't use it sound in their town there's like weird ones

too like I remember I fast best is the type of thing that I only think about

after I'm stuck in the traffic yes so like there's a lot of times where I

was like up like going up to 5 and I'm like up near Lake Antelope Valley inside

I don't see a Fastpass thing and I'm just like has my trunk I'm like thinking

if I should just turn it back in yeah probably

or take it with you I mean they're never charging anymore it has to be like

during the not after Erlik Oh Ali Oh matters yes O'Malley this is a lake one

not one dollar a month easy pass charger something like that which was fucked up

yeah I got rolled back by a Hogan now second term governor Hogan yeah just

like he he made the Bay Bridge tolls less yes and then I don't know anything

else he did but he's the best mayor in America that's a lot it's a lot of the

lot of the Hogan people I talked to it was like the bay bridge toll went down

yay Hogan yes yes taxes down and tolls went down everywhere no more stupid rain

tags no more rain tax but also listen la transit one more fast pestilence I'd be

great or two let's make it so our friends don't have to drop us off at the

airport because I don't know any form of public transportation drops off at the

airport I mean I they I was I was talking to the Michaels when I was on

set recently about it because we're all having to do LAX runs at some point

during this Thanksgiving weekend yeah and they were both saying like the worst

part is when you're at LAX and you're trying to get an uber and as soon as the

uber driver or the lyft driver realizes that they're going to LAX they do that

like I'm gonna cancel on you or you're gonna cancel on on me yeah like let's

try and figure out some sort of way to cancel this trip because I don't want to

get stuck in LAX terminal traffic for 20 minutes yeah like you're eating up

my ability to make another run by sitting in LAX traffic but I mean again

yeah that's why oh and uber and lyft are horrible by the way also because you

have to be at the upper level which who made that decision

who made the decision that drop-offs and pickups would all be at the place where

people are trying to get to the airport people are running late they are trying

to get to their planes isn't it better to put it at the level where I don't

know everybody's just trying to get out and get home yeah we're all motivated to

get the fuck out of here let's do that I love nothing more if there was just like

cuz I understand that like maybe you don't want to take like the metro ride

all the way or something like that I would oh I know I know there's a lot of

people would but I'm just saying like I I think that what's gonna be a

game-changer for lax is when they figure out not only the

metro into LAX but in addition a metro stop that's like two away from LAX where

you can drop people off oh yeah I just get up and oh yeah you drive me to this

yeah yeah I'll just jump I'm gonna take you to Compton and drop you off at the

station oh wait a second no Center for all that I'm gonna take you to Hollywood

Park okay yeah at the metro stop and then you're gonna take it the extra two

stops I'm gonna miss my flight I'm gonna gamble all weekend you can pick me up

there on Sunday it'll be fine you know III mean I agree and so V I got spoiled

by traveling a little bit where place like Vancouver which by the way shaped

just like LAX like a horseshoe mm-hmm and you know what's in the middle of the

horseshoe what the fucking train the tree goes up and no matter where you

step out of the airport you're no more than 200 feet from the train stop and

you walk out you cross over the traffic lanes go to the train

sometimes you know what what amazes me is the the number of times where LA

could have fixed this long ago yeah like we're gonna get the LAX thing at like 20

20 20 21 or something yeah yeah at the Crenshaw LAX line or

whatever but I keep saying like but where was Bradley in like nineteen fifty

years I'm like that when they were certain just going like should we find

some sort of train to bring people in it was like no people like their cars too

much they're gonna really enjoy driving around the terminals it's just like you

don't think there's any chance that it's gonna get too crowded it's like too

crowded in LA yeah yeah yeah where have you ever heard such nonsense well and of

course in that time though SNA a John Wayne and Bob Hope and LAX were probably

all about the same size so the idea I think was like oh well you know people

go to Burbank they'll go to Orange County they'd just be I really really

want to fly out of Burbank once just to see yeah if you could just make it less

than 50% extra cost I would love to fly out of Burbank

I wish Burbank was my Dulles I mean Burbank is Dallas basically oh I know

but I'm saying like I fly into Dulles or way cheaper than I fly into BWI yes yeah

it's a pain in the ass to get to Burbank right make it a little cheaper to get

yeah yeah I think that's the that's the magic spot except for the reason is more

expensive is because it's easier in reality it's BWI we just live in

Northern Virginia right so we have to get up to BWI to get

out of there that's the problem Airport took right high anyway uh it was

a good weekend I hope you guys enjoyed following along on all the adventures

and nonsense did you post anything anywhere Rachel did yeah Rachel places a

lot well Rachel's mom posted she Rachel texted her mom like pictures of the food

and the turkey yeah and like me cutting the turkey I saw that yeah and then G

posted on Facebook like Rachel hey Corey you had a great Thanksgiving I'm just

like doing too much mom it'd be a little extra being electric just like here look

at me I want to take a picture of you cut in the turkey it's not for anything

and I'm just like okay and that's why I made a face like I was like yeah yeah

and then 20 minutes later it shows oh fuck Thanks whatever but it was also a

she commented on Roxy's thing I didn't know that she and Roxy were friends I

don't think they are but I think Roxy's got that like if you were within one

level yeah of a friend of mine right right

comment and so you know that opens you up to I'm just public on everything if

you don't even have to follow me you just see everything at Robert in cheek

everywhere all right Annie wait so uh more stuff than what happened to us

happen this weekend yes um lots more things happen this than

things that happen to us but a rain is played football game yeah should we I

can't do anything and mass at the same time ok ok alright there we go we're

back hey yes uh where you just played a football game this weekend yes a

question for you because it seems to be the one that's being posted to every

Ravens fan right now let him stay let Lamar Jackson that a yeah I am

totally ready for Lamar Jackson to be our Tom Brady and for Joe Flacco to be

our drew Bloods oh hey don't think it's a similar situation I think it is now I

haven't been able to watch Lamar like in real time actually play a football game

yet I've only seen highlights and the talk of others so I'm a little bit not

necessarily the person I think should be asked about this but I will say this and

that sports ball what what I've been of what I've seen of what I've been told it

really does seem that he is Lamar Jackson is still a step behind the

PlayBook ok well yeah he still isn't quite quite ready to like unleash the

full playbook anything do you know who else was a step behind the playbook Alex

Smith and it cost him his leg um one of the things I heard this week was that

actually Colt McCoy did not look bad for the Redskins

well no Cocoa's two years extra work in the play block yeah so maybe it's just a

matter of time that's my point you can't compare the Marv Jackson to Joe Flacco

because one of them is a machine of nothing but sports skill and the other

one is Joe of athletic prowess yes one man has

athletic prowess just oozing out of him and the other one has been gay losing

out of him I think that it's gonna be an interesting tells me Joe isn't ready to

go this week I think they find some way to buy and I'll be ready yeah listen you

got a little guy I well there was some there was some talk apparently Harbaugh

after the game was saying like well we knew it was gonna be a three to four

week injury with Joe it's like nobody said anything about three or four weeks

prior to I thought you said that he might be ready next week and he injured

it the first week here's the thing do you think that Marty Morningwood as well

as you know killing the offense could pull a Tonya Harding on Joe Flacco just

to keep them out take one for the team I don't think he's the I think Marty

morning wag actually looks more like the guy who actually did the I know right

Marty more anyway Marty morning like morning morning wag is like the is like

that guy Plus like a little bit of like he's already got like this Alex Jones

feel yeah I feel like you look at him you're just like that's a man who's not

right and then you would go up and talk to him and you just be like you know hey

Marty what do you think about the idea of play-action

play-action was invented by aliens and turns frogs game just like wow alright I

guess you know where you stand yeah uh and he's sitting in John

Harbaugh office right now saying listen Shawn it'd be no problems in the CIF

then hits many many times all right he needs to stay out a few more weeks he'll

stand a few more weeks oh we need all we need to do is tell

them that there's some pass interference happening and they'll go to it it'll go

to that place and then BAM car rum down in the parking lot when you're telling

there's a pass interference parking lot okay Charlie I picture you Marty wedding

leg in one of those golf carts

party is that you let's go just casually

Marty get off the Geiser you're sure I'm writing on top of the hood oh just go

down already show this it'll be quicker if you just give in just give into the

dark

yeah so I'll just decide I think that we should you know put your flag go out to

the pasture I'm not ready to say that I think that Joe might get another start

before this is all said and done this year oh good all right I will say

this though and I'm not just saying this because I started on my fantasy team

with spectacular results but I think us Edwards needs to get more play who the

hell said words he is a running back who was on the practice squad up until last

I mean he sort of had like bits and little little plays here and there but

last week was this coming-out party where he rushed for like 120 yards and

then 118 this week okay and I did the same thing last week when I saw it I was

like who the fuck is this guy I mean does he have a picture on Yahoo

no he does not I have two people on my team are just the icon and I'm like oh

all right this is this that's where you get when you have 14 team leagues yeah

we're just getting deep into the injuries into unknown players I was so

happy I picked him up though okay he did well for you you did all right probably

would have been better if I started other people how many touchdowns with

that 18 yards what no unfortunately not he did last

week though yeah but so are you getting look a gift 11 points in the face

sure 8 points you have on the bench from that position 16 yeah I mean that guy me

kind of can give tourists in the mouth anyway so yeah Ravens I mean we're not

gonna make the playoffs this year right I mean we're the sixth seed right now I

mean and everyone in the AFC looks like horrible Dogfish garbage

Dogfish car I dug these are machetes garbage by the way Brendan

Dogfish garbage is what you left all right IPA who do you think you are

dogfish IPA via Brotherhood multiple conversations where I was making in

front of like snooty beer people and then you could see how offended he was

cuz he's a snooty beer person like if I kept doing the lake walking up to the

bartender at like the snooty IPA bar yeah this one is made of moose paroled

and mixed with different fig leaves and brewed in a coffee container for nine

and a half months and then Brandon was just like that's very insulting to me

and then he sipped the beer made of my ears that was brutal I feel like I'm

personally attacked yes because you're a sneaky bear version I can't say that for

sure cuz I don't I haven't drink around is this new deeper first yeah I all I

can say is I've seen the beer that's in the fridge right now and you know yam

sure ain't American beer you know you know he's loaded beer person because

he's got the untapped app does he look all the all the medals and stuff like

that to you poor boy what happened to my beautiful baby boy Oh Mike Elias told

his first lie as he Orioles GM cuz he walked into the clubhouse looked around

came back out to talk to the press and said a lot of good players here a good

team Chris Davis Saunders bodies like I take everything back my favorite was the

the Orioles hired somebody who used to work at NASA yes just at Fenton tweet

was so I assume the only reason they were brought into the job is to learn

how to launch Chris Davis into space I mean I can't tell you that that's not

probably a good use of money because we can't get out of that contract that's

for sure if he's in space then we technically get to wash it off on the

books right right yeah okay use like if you have an injury like if an injury and

your career then insurance pays for the length right yeah yeah yeah

so but I mean does that still come off of your salary

now right I mean there's no salary yeah but I mean like I'm a year like your

luck the luxury tax yeah I think I think it's just clear money right the

insurance pays it all out yes not on our books anymore

right yeah or okay so alternative Marty mourning leg maybe we pull a Nancy

Kerrigan on uh-oh Chris Davis and then we all get out of it you know wouldn't

it be nice and the spirit of spirit of bipartisanship see the Orioles Mike Lee

Ilyas would would go take out Joe Flacco Marty morning Mike would take out Chris

Davis I heard about this in law school about two wives who did this to each

other's husbands and though they were gonna get away with it it did not work

out for well for them if I remember correctly so I wouldn't do that

no because Michael is is just starting out but you are the way I just set up

the story though it sounds like they planned it it wasn't planned it just

happened yeah I mean you know just yeah and

Takashi six nine just happens to be rapper going away her lover yeah so by

the way if anybody's following that story its gosh six nine dummy boy will

be out very shortly I might have really anyway so he had his plea he put in his

plea today yeah pled not guilty they're looking at trial

in September of 2019 which means he's gonna be locked up for ten months

pending trial so if he wasn't going to testify he damn sure is gonna testify

now they just trying to get him to roll on somebody else that he's the only one

who's not like a blooded in I mean blood it in blood so of course they just

wanted to roll over he's got nothing to lose I mean it for all intents and

purposes the guy who's like yeah man they're all killers and I'm a killer -

he's probably bad guys probably not a killer

they are probably killers but he's probably not a killer so a good way to

get somebody to roll is to offerors is to charge them with things that will put

them away for 32 to life yes yeah that's a and make it a jail without protection

for ten months so yes that too but yeah I'd still like him to do some jail time

because uh fuck Takashi six nine I mean he's probably gonna do a lot of time but

so I read an interesting summary that said that it's actually not about the I

would like it I would like it if the judge just like it gives like parole not

parole probation gives probation or like releases him on bond essentially yes

it's like all right here's the terms of your release you're not allowed to be in

association with any of these number of people yeah you're not allowed to leave

the state and you're not allowed to make music because you're not allowed to

commit crimes on other people while you're currently out on bail I'm not

allowing you to commit any more crimes its crimes to ears which on it every

single day ironically count one of the indictment says that they are furthering

their criminal enterprise using Takashi's music so actually his music is

a crime correct that's why they I'm somebody recognizes that's why they

seized all of his money because he said it's poker but what the best the best

description I heard of it is basically that we've accepted as a society that

there will be drug dealing in the city of New York yeah we've accepted that the

gangs are gonna be the people who sell the drugs okay the problem is that if

you sell a thousand dollars worth of heroin that your overheads basically

nine hundred dollars when you talk about buying the heroin paying the people you

know everybody takes a cut yeah and then this general over overhead like any

business takes away ninety percent of the profit right so what you have in

takashi is a guy who has profit from outside of the drug industry mm-hmm

who's just dumping money into this gang and he's all set the balance and

basically all the feds want is to not to stop the dealing of drugs or the gang

violence in new york but to merely go back to the status quo where everybody's

got some guns and there's some violence but it's a minimal amount and we could

all live with that that's what they want so i thought that was interesting and

it's probably not incorrect because their focus have you heard anything

about his co-defendant at all I mean I I heard I remember I

read a story about this I guess like right after we wrapped the podcast last

week or something like that is when the story it was like the day after where it

started really dawning mm-hmm and I'm just like reading some of the things

that have led to the charges the stories that have led to the charges I was just

like what the fuck are you thinking man yeah he ordered a hit on Instagram live

yeah some guy in the Barclays center Lake oh no no that was different

oh that's what I'm saying like his be asked his buddy to shoot the guy at the

Barclays center they don't Instagram live later he was us like oh no no I

know where you live don't worry about it I know where you

live and he hangs up on the guy while his friend is recording him on Instagram

live and he says you know 30 rock on the head I swear to God I swear to God on

God 30 rock for his head like your own Instagram you are on Instagram and

you're just like yo thirty thirty thousand dollars to kill this guy by the

way it's really funny if that ever gets to trial because wait Ravens it survived

there's a lot of teams that are 5 and 6 and the Colts are 6 and 5 but I mean

like it's yeah none of those teams are really great either the Bengals are

without a thought now dolphins are the Dolphins progress the Broncos yeah oh

but yes so the yeah he's order how dumb do you have to be like you don't order a

hit on somebody and yeah so I mean it is what it is but goes through his music a

couple of Spotify spins won't hurt anybody it's tak e Shi the number six IX

the number nine ine gosh I I just really hope that but a lot of people like have

a have a weakening with this yeah I just I would make me feel better if people

would wake up in the morning and say like what have I been doing with my life

you can hope yeah I'm not talking about the scratching 6:9 I'm talking about all

the people who listen to his music music but Donny boy was supposed to be out

last Friday maybe it comes out soon the same maybe it does anyway um trying to

think what do we have time for do you wanna go to Baltimore just we'll skip

the other stuff alright so there's a migrant Caravan we were still worried

about it we put Trump's we put troops on the border yeah luckily those guys are

still there to stop the migrant care about no they got they got pulled

because it was all political son yeah yeah because right after the election we

dinner and then right after I feel like we're the better version of this story

is coming a week from now yeah just because most of this happened yesterday

I also think that the whole thing's not there yet yeah I don't feel like any

there's way too many things with the story that aren't adding up to me mm-hmm

and I'm not trying to sound like there's like some conspiracy that needs to be

opened or something like that but like there's the there's way too much of each

side trying to get their story out there right now yeah and not enough of what

actually happened I think it's really clear that we well I mean like there's

the violent gang there's the side that's like you know the right side which is

the violent gang that overthrew Mexican authorities yeah and charged at the

border and left the American authorities with no choice but to use the tear gas

yeah tear gas which we fired into Mexico

right by the way which would be by my token an act of war yeah we fired a

weapon of war that's banned by the Geneva Convention I mean that's

basically why we took down aside this because of tear gas - yeah their

chemical weapons yeah but and then there's the left side which is this like

there's women and children who are getting tear gassed to death

but there's a lot of things - there's a lot of things to sort out here yes and

maybe next week would be the better time to do that I agree I think there's just

literally it happened today so yeah no tip well there was more stuff today i

watch some live video today so and I also I think that the most of the

caravan is not there this is just kind of the first there's it's like a wave

crashing and this is the first small one it'll be a couple

one's and then the big one gets there yeah we'll see what happens Trump is

starting to shut down the government unless he gets his border wall I don't

know that he knows how long it takes to build a wall and I'm thinking he might

think that this is a solution that Mike and Karen brought I also think he thinks

that the a lame duck will be able to handle this yeah so many people who lost

their seats are not interested in working help yeah especially most of

them who lost according to trump lost because they didn't back him right so

after hearing that why would you then back him for the Senate candidate by the

way the the total we're at right now is 38 seats and they said 40 you had

predicted like what 2020 yep so a little bit closer to me a lot closer to you

yeah oh yeah Larry for Ted is suspended oh man all those respectful bills me as

they were just sorted out don't get involved okay so a Trump is threatening

to shut down the government again I don't know if he understands how lame

ducks work I don't know if he understand how budgeting works I at this point I am

not comfortable saying anything that Trump is actually good at with

government because we know that for sure know for sure on another quick topic

he's not good with climate change because a thousand person group is that

with including 300 scientists within his own government yes well some of them

weren't in the government so maybe that's his his consolation is that hey

half of those guys weren't even in the government but thousand people came

together and they agreed for the second time since 2017 that we are doing

massive damage and that the only explanation is human interference right

and some did you read any of the report not specifically I just I just saw those

I didn't even hear the story well I heard the story but I didn't read

anything but I thought me where'd the report so I went and during my evening

Constitution read some of the report startling stuff yeah startling stuff it

tried to hit Trump where hopefully he would he would care about this where

it's like this is going to end up costing American

business billions of dollars and America billions of dollars yes and he's yeah I

don't believe it and I just write as I know we can we can

get into more details later because I'm sure there's gonna be a second turn to

this one yeah it did that come out that was the Friday dump before Thanksgiving

right after things yeah Friday dump during the Thanksgiving break yeah so I

do feel like that will get back around to that there's gonna he's gonna on

Twitter on Thursday or something like that should be like nobody knows

anything about climate change except for me we all know the world isn't getting

hotter so fuck you and then like I do we're gonna have another couple days of

like you know Adam Schiff going like the the attitude the Trump is shown towards

climate change

GM announced today that they were closing five plants and 14,000 jobs

going away and I do think that that that when I saw that I said somehow Trump is

gonna circle this around to climate change and I don't know how he's gonna

do it like maybe we're better off oh hey we're addressing our drought or climate

change problem because there will be less cars on the road because GMO

producing less cars like that in my mind that's that feels like a trump that

feels like a Trump argument right yeah James producing less cars there's less

cars on the road climate change soft see but I don't

think that that helps him I mean I guess not because his whole thing is like yeah

like we need more jobs like he's bright are this just like whole like so yeah I

mean like Youngstown Ohio is closing a cheese plant in White Marsh is closing

waymarsh Palin yeah there's like six different plants that are closing

again I didn't read that I was talking about the story with coworkers I thought

they said it was all Canadian plants now there are Canadian plants there are

other plants but there's six American ones I think super-super if I'm correct

in that number good job what I mean that's 15 percent of their workforce yes

we're making America great again clearly expanding and the economy's never been

stronger and you know I mean at the at the end of the day with the climate

change stuff especially like it's not quite the same

as it was when we when it was a pipe dream yeah I mean like you can buy a

solar panel that you you could charge your phone with for 20 bucks listen stop

letting them personalize climate change no no no but there are 71 companies who

are carrying out 99% of the pollution err oh yeah we need that's what we need

to adjust so me charging my cellphone on a solar panel instead of the plug does

zero for Ghana no I get you but the first step is is definitely getting all

the companies that are committing all the holy acts to actually like clean up

and do the right part I think Nestle Nestle has completely stolen all the

water yeah California has stolen water in Michigan get pays nothing for it oh

by the way the political favors that they use to get these sweetheart deals

you know what we learned it takes 40 bottles of water to cook a Thanksgiving

turkey or Thanksgiving dinner you know how we learned that cuz Flint because

Flint doesn't have clean water yet so they're cooking Thanksgiving dinner with

bottled water yeah that doesn't have clean water

hey I can't but by the way you know how we solve this problem with the company

71 companies you know how we get them to get in line guillotines guillotines

you're coming around course I can sense a that you're coming around I you know

it's one of those I think what we what we really need is we need the the the

Bible of the good businesses and the bad businesses because I think that a lot of

people they want to do the right thing they want to support people who do it

the right way okay and just because a company is big doesn't necessarily mean

that they're evil you know what I mean I mean I disagree nobody companies are

inherently I'm saying there's a difference between a Walmart which is a

big company that's evil and just to put it in the same field like Sam's Club

which has traditionally been very good to its employees and tree it pays

everyone wait Costco I'm sorry Sam's Club Sam's Club is heart'll buy one word

yes yeah but have traditionally always treated their their employees well and

done everything like that you would expect a big company to do right 20

percent the size so they're not comparable businesses they are in the

same market same field yes yes but I'm saying that you know if Walmart did the

same thing then we wouldn't necessarily think of Walmart it's like the bad guys

per se yes even though you know they had just had a really good business that was

managed it was able to succeed even with taking care of everybody yeah dollars

now and in benefits once once you take away like from what your Nestle taking

all the water from California in Michigan and anywhere else where you're

bottling then you can't just make up for that

you know lakid there has to be a water company though that is doing a better

thing yeah I don't I mean Fiji maybe it's not actually Fiji water they lied

to it the people who buy it yeah when they bottle it they actually are but I

know maybe I feel like Fiji well we don't need bottled water I mean really

like watch any episode of Adam ruins everything because I've realized I am

Adam from Adam means everything the other thing is like glasses you feel

like you have an option when it comes to glasses but it turns out one company

owns all of the right eye places and all of the glasses company the other one I

like is mattresses oh yeah we're definitely a front it's all from well no

no it's not that it's like a front per se it's just that if you go online you

can't trust any reviews because every single mattress review site yeah is

owned by like a mattress company yes yeah if you go on to like some website

it's just like Sleep Number is the past everyone else sucks like look at all

these reviews from the other mattress providers yeah then you'll find out that

that company that you think like mattress we used a comma or something

like that is owned by the number yeah yeah it's just like that that's the one

that has managed to like escape everybody to a degree

yeah like this like secret underground rating system on mattresses you know how

we can solve this guillotines speaking of horrible

corporations oh and getting more in tune let's talk about CSX and how they're

impacting our favorite hometown in the bottom or corner where you get

the straight dupe so um two years ago no yeah I think so

how do what we were doing the podcast so it had to be since then infamously and

notoriously a huge piece of 23rd Street 32nd street 23rd no 32nd 30s yeah I

don't remember exactly though maybe it's higher than that its way it's in

Northwest Baltimore though yeah it was up where EP was living right and like

Camden him like northwest of Hamden not Washington

now Washington yeah an entire Hills isn't quite Northwest but yeah yes

entire hillside collapsed sidewalk collapsed a retaining wall collapse a

hill collapsed and I think the damaged cars ready went down the hill and there

was like a mudslide down the hill and damaged some cars mm-hmm and come to

find out CSX which ran a tunnel directly under that spot was not to blame for

that despite how it may seem that they are to blame for that now another

section of that very street looks to be damaged and collapsing and the CSX

tunnel which runs underneath it also not to blame this time you have to ask

yourself uh one Baltimore is not to see it's got money to be thrown around to

fix problems you know now there are forty five million dollars and police

overtime for fiscal year nineteen yes yes that's a lot of collapsing sidewalk

so you could fix with that yeah I think but nonetheless so at what point does

CSX have to step up and actually you know repair something never I mean

probably never that's the the end result of this is probably never should they

absolutely 100 percent but they won't so now the citizens of North northern North

Paulding not north of Baltimore I guess North Baltimore northern Baltimore

northern Baltimore you would say yeah are gonna be paying the price

and I don't know if I I mean I there I don't think there's any houses there

right it's kind of like just a a road it's like a tional there's houses right

across the street yeah but where it's collapsing is across the street from the

houses yeah the last time the last time there's a lot of those houses got ruined

and destroyed I cuz it actually caved in the whole road that's right yeah yeah

but you know I'm sure bottom will be fine I'm sure you guys will be totally

okay oh we have a new police commissioner so the mayor has named her

choice for a police commissioner and you know what I'd like to see when we name a

police commissioner is that that guy quits his job and gets ready to become

the police conditioner of Baltimore so clearly that's what the police

commissioner of Fort Worth did no no yeah it's sad what he did was announced

that he would not be giving up his job he would not be giving up his job in

Fort Worth until he was confirmed by the City Council

yeah which maybe gives me pause that perhaps he doesn't think that he's gonna

be approved by the City Council something tells me that a couple people

in the City Council probably said you're not an automatic yeah when he came in to

me with them the other day and he said oh shit maybe I shouldn't quit my

current job keep the job you have you know I mean because perhaps I also find

that I'm not saying that this is the case with Joel Fitzgerald yeah potential

future Baltimore City Police Commissioner but I find that people who

are get worried about like the City Council like investigating them and like

digging it up are also worried that they're gonna find the one thing that

like he's been secretly worried about this whole time yeah I got it I got a

big skeleton that calls it yeah it's real deep in a closet but I mean I was

never written on that report where I assassinated that kid on the street but

everybody knows something tells me that this is the time where that's going to

pop up yeah but I can't say anything about it because then I won't get the

child but maybe if I sneak in without so instead I'll just wait and I'll hope it

never gets found and I'll not give up my current job where I'm under contracts

until I'm for sure in the new job where I'll be under contract yeah because

that's how we do it in Baltimore I can't think of a worse way to conduct

ourselves as a city and yet here we are no this is what we do

hooray I I feel like at any point Catherine Pugh could have done this

better Oh at every point she could have done this better how about this anything

in the city could be better than it is right now I mean like I think about it

like this so I know there's a lot of a lot of controversy about this in

retrospect but the Christine Blasi Ford thing started coming out like she

started reaching out to people when his when Cavanaugh's name was announced as a

possible yes candidate and that it was all secret up

until closer to the confirmation but the the idea being that like it wasn't until

the name was put out there that people could start investigating it as to

whether or not there was anything untoward that was happening and by the

way had Trump not rushed maybe this thing about Kavanagh were to come out

and he wouldn't been the nominee right here's the shortlist of five not this is

the guy yeah this is the guy right but I'm saying the the if at some point P

would just sort of said here's my short list of 20 names and then just allow

people to investigate on their own or you know and the City Council yeah or

just be like here's the 20 here's the 20 names of thinking about releasing let's

sort of like put them publicly out there and see how yeah you know the people

react to it and see if any skeletons come out if we need to eliminate anybody

off that list like yeah now would be a good time rather than just like hey I

made the pick because you're putting an awful lot of a lot on your ability to

get it right and you haven't proven that you're able to get it right on entering

anything nothing at all

on the plus side here in LA we're gonna get a wonderful new building but two

blocks away first and first in spring and first in grant snuck in snuck in

that bribe right at the last minute

luckily now all the permits have been approved buildings going up no matter

what you have to well we've already started tearing down a garage that we

can can't do anything about it now so how hard it is to demolish things in LA

if this is coming down we need to put a building up here or the homeless will

move in do not I like I like oh la has like a nine year process of getting

things done because like everyone starts suing and then there's a point where the

suing stops and we just let it go alright we've we've put it through the

initial round of discussion in the City Council now starts the nine-month prep

the nine year process of everyone's suing each other okay and do we wrap up

the lawsuits wrapped up okay it's all approved we're gonna go ahead and move

forward now now we can officially say yes and we'll boot out although then the

punker the Bunker Hill neighborhood association has sued us over

environmental complains yes we can move on to

that's way like I have yet to find anyone who can explain to me why this is

the best process for LA moving forward where it's just like oh yeah we just

finished a bike lane it cost twenty five million dollars and I'm just like well

how the hell did it cost twenty five million dollars it's like well you know

the new paint cost a hundred dollars and the new concrete that we had to lay that

was actually kind of expensive that was $5,000 so we had to go over some parts

of the road that we hadn't planned on going over yeah and then the other

twenty-five million dollars is that we kept getting sued yeah by everyone sued

us yeah so the outside counsel for which we paid twenty-five million dollars to

handle all this took some time and now that it's all cleared we can spend the

five thousand dollars that we were gonna spend on the bike lane now what's up man

come on it's always the answer always the answer it fixes everything or you

know legs it colleagues it would be great

yeah we got though I don't know if that makes it better or worse we did we we

got someone from Kellogg's that reached out to us so we might do that at some

point I'm very excited I would really like to speak to somebody from Cal exit

see what their plan of attack is I spoke to some people from Texas about Cal exit

yeah got their perspective I think it's gonna help me with some question asking

did you ever did you ever listen to that one Malcolm Gladwell podcast about how

Texas could have removed itself from the Union they have an out in their

constitution yeah I learned about that while discussing cal exit and the whole

thing about like you guys don't even have that but do you think the US would

let us leave yeah did you know about that I had no idea this weekend yeah I

heard about it because they had a the whole Democratic side of the Texas House

like 20 years ago or so my guess like left Oklahoma Oklahoma yeah and they

couldn't have a quorum because they weren't there and the the whole

discussion was whether or not to secede from the union because Texas was the

only state that could do it so without it going up to a vote in front of a

house or represented Texas into the Union said that so long as it's not

joining another country if it's going back to being a republic yeah it would

be allowed to leave which apparently I don't know how that survived the post

Confederate Constitution but maybe because parts of Texas stayed loyal I

don't know who was all of Texas already already like squared away by the time

the Civil War was over because I feel like there were still parts that were

Mexico ya know Mexico Mexico situation had been solved but there were parts of

West Texas that stayed loyal to the to the cop to the north yeah there was

actually some in fight like Mexico Missouri in West Texas and West Virginia

obviously there were places where there was fighting inside the states because

other parts stayed loyal but like West Texas hootch by the way I saw a cotton

field so a Khan field yeah I've lived on the East Coast my entire life never seen

a cotton field saw one Texas in Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving

it's amazing but back then you couldn't raise cotton in East or in West Texas

it's different kind of cotton mmm so in the 1800's it was only in the swampy

East Texas so when they were trying to defend this whole like slave culture

West Texas was like listen we got no I got no need for any of this yeah Johnson

so we're gonna you guys trying to leave the Union we're we're not about that

life yeah and there was actually again

according to people who are starting to this weekend there were two top five

versus whatever but they said that there was two Texas government somebody how

many cities that if we asked Rachel how many cities in Texas she can name how

many do you think she'd get that's not even fair probably three probably I

think she'd go a little bit deeper but I think El Paso would probably be the

smallest of the I think that she would only know El Paso because we were

talking about it so yeah she would know Dallas in Houston yeah I'm not sure she

can name another city in we're gonna test her when she gets home okay yes and

well upload the video someplace I don't know where would we be able to to upload

that kind of video Instagram perhaps yeah yeah or maybe Twitter or oh I got a

place yeah oh yeah um calm core do the intercom on Facebook Twitter Instagram

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last week was off because of the Thanksgiving Day holiday on the Thursday

but I am definitely gonna go see a movie tomorrow I don't give a shit I'm gonna

I'm gonna going even if I have to go in the middle of the day I can't because

yeah fuck maybe morning and I'll figure it out yeah but there's

many movies to see so there's something that you would like to hear a review

about in particular whether it be creed 2 or

any number of the movies that are out currently yes trying to gather ones

fantastic beasts I have fantastic beasts and another one that came out on this

Thanksgiving holiday anyway yeah some review Thursday enjoy it and you know

watch go watch and of course you can find more of me at Robert and cheek on

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everything yeah well I go through it's so like absent mindedly now that I don't

even think about it or just like that it uh yeah that's it

well there is this I think we did good here today we've done something I don't

know if it's good you know how we could do better wouldn't fail to see my jobs

well guillotines but as always you're listening to the year the anthem podcast

part of the u n-- digital network for Corey this is Rob have a great week

everybody I don't know if I have anything dad there's a show showing

Texans Titans I lights I don't know I can handle this now now can't certainly

can't wow your fantasy football season's over but I'll cure your spirit to the

playoffs

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News November 27, 2018 (For English learners) - Duration: 53:00.

Scientists are trying to save Puerto Rico's endangered Amazon parrots after Hurricane

Maria destroyed the birds' habitats and food sources.

El Yunque is a large national forest on the eastern part of Puerto Rico.

Just two of the 56 wild parrots that once lived there survived Maria.

The Category-4 storm struck Puerto Rico in September 2017.

Scientists report other forests have seen great drops in parrot populations, as well.

In the 1800s, there were more than a million of the bright green parrots living in the

wild in Puerto Rico.

By the 1970s, the number was down to just 13 birds after years of forest clearing.

The U.S. and Puerto Rican governments launched a special program in 1972 to help increase

the parrot population.

That led to the creation of three breeding centers.

Just weeks before Hurricane Maria hit, scientists counted 56 wild parrots at El Yunque.

That was the highest number in the program's history.

Scientists say that even though several parrots have been born in captivity and in the wild

since Maria, the species is still in danger.

Marisel Lopez oversees the parrot recovery program at El Yunque for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife

Service.

She says she is worried about the disappearance of parrots in El Yunque.

She said, "It was devastating, after so many years of having worked on this project."

The Puerto Rican Amazon is the island's only remaining native parrot.

The birds only reproduce once a year.

More than 460 of the birds are kept inside the breeding centers at El Yunque and the

Rio Abajo forest.

Scientists have not released any of the birds since Hurricane Maria.

A third breeding center, in a forest in the western area of Maricao, has not been in operation

since the storm.

Federal and local scientists plan to meet next month to discuss how best to bring back

the species.

Scientists are considering whether to capture some of the remaining wild parrots and put

them in the same cage as the birds that are set to be released.

This way, the captive birds can learn from the wild birds how to survive in the forests.

Another consideration is to release some captive parrots in Maricao, which was not as heavily

damaged by Maria.

But first, scientists need to make sure the forests can offer food and safe shelter for

the birds.

Jessica Ilse works at El Yunque for the U.S. Forest Service.

She says scientists are studying the amount of fruit falling from trees and the number

of leaves the trees have dropped.

Many of the large trees where the parrots used to build nests are now gone.

Without these trees, the parrots could become easy targets for their predators.

Ilse does not know how long the recovery program will take.

She said the damage from Hurricane Maria has caused "a complete change to the ecosystem."

Gustavo Olivieri works in the parrot recovery program for Puerto Rico's Department of

Natural Resources.

He said, "We have a lot of work to do."

I'm Ashley Thompson.

In earlier times, healers and health workers used strangely-named plants for medicinal

purposes.

Plants with names such as dragon's blood, mandrake root and devil's snare could be

bought at a drugstore called an apothecary.

Today, one of the best preserved apothecaries in the United States has been turned into

a museum in Alexandria, Virginia.

The museum provides interesting examples of medicines used before the development of modern

drugs.

The Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary served customers for more than 140 years, from 1792 to 1933.

When the business failed, the store and its contents were bought.

It was redesigned to look as it had in the 18th century.

In 1939, it reopened as a museum.

Lauren Gleason supervises the museum.

"A lot of the medicines that people would have been purchasing here were probably for

minor ailments, rashes, skin conditions, the flu, a headache."

The apothecary has many thousands of objects.

Some seem strange now, like the bloodletting tools.

They were used to take blood from patients in hopes of removing their sickness as well.

The treatment was often harmful, however, and ended in the late 19th century.

Many famous people visited the apothecary while it was still a business, including America's

first president.

George Washington and his wife Martha lived nearby in the early 1800s at their home of

Mount Vernon.

But the apothecary had more than medicine.

"Lots of other chemicals like paints, dyes and perfumes, would have been made and sold

here."

And, she said, customers could also buy baby bottles, writing instruments, and even clothes-making

machines at the store.

One bottle at the store holds a poison that was once used to ease pain.

The drug called aconite comes from the wolfsbane plant.

In earlier times, wolfsbane was thought to help control violence by imaginary creatures

known as werewolves.

In folklore, a werewolf is a human that changes into a wolf during full moons.

Jim Williams works at the apothecary.

"So if you're having werewolf trouble, it will get you through to the next full moon."

Williams added that wolfsbane would also be used to treat pain in human joints.

Visitor Christine Zapata from California said she was especially interested in the former

store's different plants.

"Using all these different herbs and plant-based medicines that are coming back now, for me

that's most interesting for me since I work in the cannabis industry."

One box at the apothecary used to contain bottles of Coca-Cola.

The drinks were first sold in the late 1800s as medicine believed to cure conditions like

tiredness and headaches.

However, Coca-Cola at that time contained the drug cocaine and could be addictive.

Some treatments fell into disuse after it became known they were poisonous.

But we continue to depend on many medicines found in the apothecary to heal injuries and

cure disease.

I'm Jonathan Evans.

The United States Capitol is one of the most famous buildings in Washington.

The Capitol building is also one of the best-known symbols of the U.S. government.

And it has been around for almost as long.

The country's first president, George Washington, set the cornerstone for the building in 1793.

At the time, the country's government was only about five years old.

And the capital city was Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania.

But national leaders were preparing to move the capital to the District of Columbia.

They identified a hill on which to build a new home for the U.S. Senate and House of

Representatives.

The area around it was mostly grass, trees and water – in other words, a swamp.

But the country's leaders imagined that one day it would be crowded with people and

buildings.

And they were right.

Yet efforts to set up the Capitol building were slow.

Several architects were asked to work on the project and later dismissed.

The design of the building kept changing.

Finally, lawmakers began meeting in one side in 1800, and in the other side in 1807.

They passed from one side to the other on a wooden walkway.

Then, in 1814, British troops set fire to the Capitol building.

Only rain from an unexpected storm put out the fire.

After the war with the British ended, workers made repairs and began to improve the building.

They enclosed the center of the Capitol and added a dome on top.

It was made of wood and covered in copper.

For some years, improvements to the Capitol were small: running water, then gas lighting.

But major changes to the country were taking place.

New states were joining.

The United States was expanding.

And more lawmakers needed to meet in the Capitol.

By 1850, lawmakers agreed that the building was too small.

Architects and builders set to work again.

In time, they would double the length of the two sides of the Capitol.

But the increase caused a new problem: now the dome looked too small.

However, the nation was facing more serious troubles.

The southern states were threatening to withdraw from the Union.

They objected to the power of the federal government, especially its efforts to control

– or end – slavery.

By 1861, the country was fighting a civil war.

Most work on the Capitol came to a stop.

At times during the Civil War, the building served as a place for soldiers to sleep, a

hospital, and even a place where baked goods were made.

But even before the war ended, then-President Abraham Lincoln urged that improvements to

the Capitol be finished.

He reportedly said if people saw work continue on the Capitol, they would accept that the

Union would go on.

In 1863, a formerly enslaved man helped add a statue to the top of the new dome.

Philip Reid was one of many enslaved workers who had built the Capitol.

Over the years, they dug the stone, cut pieces of wood, and laid down the bricks, among other

jobs.

Reid was an expert in shaping metal.

He was able to solve the problem of how to get a large statue out of its plaster cast

so it could be forged.

The figure, called the Statue of Freedom, still stands on top of the Capitol's white,

iron dome.

The Civil War ended in 1865.

As Lincoln hoped, the Union continued.

And the Capitol building was slowly modernized.

Elevators, electric lighting, and more rooms were added.

In the 20th century, the Capitol was equipped with televisions, computers, and a voting

machine.

And a large visitor center was added so the public can learn more about its history.

Today, the area around the Capitol is completely different than it was in 1793.

Washington, D.C. is now a major city.

And other government buildings stand near the Capitol.

They include the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, and even the Voice of America.

But the Capitol remains the seat of U.S. lawmaking, and a well-known symbol of the federal government.

I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.

This may seem impossible, but an American company is seeking to change farm animals

by cutting or adding to their genes.

By using a process called gene-editing, the company, Recombinetics, says it may be able

to remove problem-causing genetic traits from some animals.

Recombinetics says it can produce cows born without horns — those sharp objects on top

of their heads.

By using the editing process, the company says it can also breedcows that survive in

hot weather.

With gene-cutting, it says, pigs could live and never fully grow up.

Why would that be a good idea?

When male pigs reach puberty, their meat can have an unpleasant smell.

The company must first persuade United States government officials that gene-edited animals

are safe, and no different than ones bred the traditional way.

To date, no gene-edited animals are sold in the country.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a kind of salmon genetically engineered

to grow fast, but those fish are not yet available.

There has been debate as to whether people would want to eat food that comes from gene-edited

animals.

Last month, the FDA announced an action plan that described the steps it will take to support

both plant and animal biotechnology, while safeguarding public health.

To make this technology more acceptable, Recombinetics is not yet changing animals' genes to greatly

increase their growth or productivity.

That could make the animals seem too strange to people.

Instead, the company says it is adding gene-edited traits to ease animals' suffering.

"It's a better story to tell," Tammy Lee told the Associated Press.

She is chief executive officer of the company, based in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Cow horns can hurt other cows, animals and people.

Animal rights activists criticize the way farmers currently remove cow horns.

They use hot irons or a caustic, burning substance to remove the bone.

Gene-editing

This is how Recombinetics says gene-editing works: In a laboratory, workers use an instrument

called a "molecular pencil" to "erase, or cut, re-write, remove, or add genes."

This newly edited gene then would be included when an animal is impregnated.

Recombinetics solves the cow horn problem by cutting out the gene for growing horns,

ending the need for painful removals.

Once the gene is taken out, all future generations after that first animal will also lack the

gene -- and would not develop horns.

Last year, the company had a gene-edited male cow without horns.

It fathered several cows.

They were also all born hornless and are being raised on the grounds of the University of

California, Davis.

When the female offspring grow up and begin producing milk, the milk will be tested for

any problems.

Recombinetics is also developing cows that are less likely to suffer in high temperatures,

so they can live in hotter climates.

When it comes to raising pigs for their meat, Recombinetics is working with ones that will

not go through puberty.

When male pigs go through puberty, their meat can develop an unpleasant smell.

Currently, farmers castrate the males, removing their sex organs.

Animal rights activists say the treatment is painful because it is usually done without

medicine to kill the pain.

Editing genes to stop pigs from experiencing puberty would make castration unnecessary.

The company says that it is doing the work of traditional animal breeders, only much

faster and with the exact science of cutting and editing genes.

Recombinetics' Tammy Lee said she thinks if the public accepts gene-editing, farmers

would be interested in traits that increase productivity in the animals.

For example, she said, pigs would edited to have larger number of babies for each pregnancy.

Change the animal or change the system?

Critics question whether using this technology is "playing God," doing something that

is not natural.

Paul Thompson is a professor of agriculture at Michigan State University.

He told the Associated Press that gene-editing may serve as evidence of how modern food production

already treats animals.

Thompson said there has been a debate for at least 20 years, "of whether you need

to change the animal or change the system."

Support for changing the genes may also depend on how the technology is used.

For example, will it be used to help the animals, prevent disease, or increase productivity?

A Pew Research Center study last August found 43 percent of Americans supported genetically

engineering animals for more nutritious meat.

The Humane Society of the United States works for better treatment of animals.

The society supports gene-editing to end castration of pigs and removing cows' horns.

But the group has yet to give the technology its complete approval.

I'm Anne Ball.

For almost 200 years, the House of Representatives – part of the United States Congress – has

barred lawmakers from wearing hats.

But this year, voters in Minnesota elected Ilhan Omar to represent them in the House.

Omar, who was born in Somalia and is Muslim, wears a scarf that covers her head.

In answer, some political leaders are calling for a change to the rules so that lawmakers

can wear religious headwear during official meetings.

The proposed change would enable Omar to wear a headscarf on the House floor.

It would also permit lawmakers to wear other kinds of religious headwear, such as kippahs.

But it is unclear whether any current lawmaker would do so.

The reason for the ban on hats is mostly related to ideas about respectful behavior.

Currently, the rule appears alongside bans on smoking or using small computers, such

as iPhones, while lawmakers are meeting publicly.

But Democratic Party lawmakers have suggested a proposal to permit religious headwear.

Nancy Pelosi and Jim McGovern were two of the writers of the proposal.

They noted to NBC News that this year, voters had elected the most diverse Congress in history.

McGovern added the amended headwear rule would permit lawmakers to do their jobs, regardless

of their religious beliefs.

The Washington Post newspaper notes that the headwear proposal also denounces some of the

anti-Muslim language heard in several election campaigns.

The Postadded, "It is also notable coming at a time when several U.S. allies in Europe

are adopting countrywide bans on face veils."

I'm Kelly Jean Kelly.

Mexico has begun taking steps to increase security near its border with the United States.

Mexican officials announced Sunday that police arrested 39 people after a peaceful march

turned violent.

The march was called to protest long processing delays for immigrants seeking asylum in the

United States.

The violence began when a group of migrants broke away from the protesters and attempted

to cross the border.

U.S. border agents reacted by firing tear gas into Mexico.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Customs and Border Patrol agents

were struck by objects thrown by members of the group.

The agency said that officers decided to use the tear gas "because of the risk to agents'

safety."

Mexico's Interior Ministry said that officials were able to contain a group of about 500

people who "violently" tried to cross the border.

The ministry said that those found to have taken part in the violence would be expelled

immediately.

About 5,000 Central American migrants have been staying at a sports center in Tijuana

for more than a week.

Many are from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

Most say they are trying to escape poverty and violence in their homelands.

After the violence, Lurbin Sarmiento of Honduras walked back to the sports center with her

four-year-old daughter.

Sarmiento said she had been near the bottom of the Tijuana River when U.S. agents fired

tear gas.

She told the Associated Press, "We ran, but the smoke always reached us and my daughter

was choking."

She said she never would have gotten that close with her daughter if she thought there

would be tear gas.

The wind carried some of the gas toward hundreds of migrants after some tried to get through

the wire and fencing separating the two countries.

U.S. officials closed the border crossing at San Ysidro for several hours at the end

of last week.

On Friday, Tijuana Mayor Juan Manuel Gastelum declared a humanitarian crisis in his city,

which is home to 1.6 million people.

He said that Tijuana is struggling to shelter the large number of migrants.

Irineo Mujica has traveled with the migrants for weeks as a representative of the aid group

Pueblo Sin Fronteras.

He said the aim of Sunday's march was to make the migrants' suffering more visible

to U.S. and Mexican officials.

"We can't have all these people here," he said.

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed his displeasure with the group of migrants

who traveled through Mexico to the border.

He also made new arguments for his promised border wall.

He wrote on Twitter, "Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are

stone cold criminals, back to their countries.

Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the

U.S.A.

We will close the Border permanently if need be.

Congress, fund the WALL!"

Trump has repeatedly suggested without evidence that the group of migrants is filled with

criminals.

But The Associated Press reports that many are poor people with few belongings who have

fled violence in their home countries.

During his presidential election campaign, Trump promised he would have Mexico pay for

the wall.

Mexico's Interior Ministry reported on Sunday that the country has sent 11,000 Central Americans

back to their countries since October 19.

That was when the first of the two recent large migrant groups entered the country.

Mexico will likely send a total of around 100,000 Central Americans back home by the

end of this year.

A new U.S. government report says climate change is affecting the United States.

It warns that the danger of destructive weather events -- from powerful storms to extremely

dry weather and wildfires -- is worsening.

Some findings are in conflict with the statements and policies of President Donald Trump.

The report, called the Fourth National Climate Assessment, was released on November 23.

It was written long before the deadly fires in California this month and before Hurricanes

Florence and Michael struck the East Coast.

The report noted that new U.S. records for destructive weather have been set in recent

years.

Weather-related damage has cost nearly $400 billion since 2015, The Associated Press reported.

The climate assessment is required by law every few years.

It was based on more than 1,000 earlier research studies.

More than 300 researchers in 13 U.S. government offices and agencies prepared the report.

It explains how the burning of coal, oil and natural gas is affecting different areas of

the country and how this affects the U.S. economy, including energy and agriculture.

The report noted that temperatures in the Lower 48 states have risen 1 degree Celsius

since the year 1900.

By the end of the 21st century, the country will be 1.6 to 6.6 degrees higher, depending

on how much pollution is released into the atmosphere.

Studies have linked the temperature increase to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The climate assessment warned of longer and more powerful disasters resulting, at least

in part, from rising temperatures.

It said weather disasters are becoming more commonplace and warned that without aggressive

action, they could become much worse.

The report avoids proposing policy changes.

But it said that people must take steps to stop future weather disasters "to avoid

substantial damages to the U.S. economy, environment, and human health and well-being over the coming

decades."

"Future risks from climate change depend primarily on decisions made today," the

report said.

The Trump administration is downplaying the importance of the findings.

It says the report was largely based on "the most extreme scenario" and fails to consider

new technology and other actions that could reduce carbon emissions and the effects of

climate change.

A White House spokeswoman noted that, since 2005, carbon dioxide emissionsrelated to energy

production in the United States have dropped 14 percent.

Yet emissions worldwide continue to rise.

The Trump administration has eased enforcement of several environmental rules enacted during

the presidency of Barack Obama.

The administration also has a campaign for the production of fossil fuels like coal.

Last year, President Trump announced plans to withdraw the United States from the 2015

Paris Agreement.

He said the agreement would hurt the U.S. economy and said there was little evidence

it would improve the environment.

The measure, signed by nearly 200 countries, sets rules for fighting climate change.

I'm Alice Bryant.

From VOA Learning English, this is the Health & Lifestyle report.

Most of us know that physical activity leads to better health.

That is nothing new.

But for the first time in 10 years, the United States government has changed its guidance

on how much exercise people need to stay healthy and when they should start.

Brett Giroir is Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human

Services.

In a video, he spoke with the Associated Press about the new guidelines.

Dr. Giroir says he is excited about the new guidelines.

He adds that getting or attaining the health benefits from exercise may be easier than

earlier thought.

"I'm very excited about the guidelines because what we've found out is that it's

actually easier to attain the health benefits than we thought before.

And the health benefits are so much greater."

That is good news for people in the U.S. who may need to lose weight.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that in 2016 about 93 million adults

nationwide were overweight or considered obese.

Its website notes that obesity rates for both adults and children have been rising since

1999.

The new federal guidance states that children as young as 3-years-old need to be physically

active.

Earlier guidelines used to begin at age 6.

Dr. Girior says that the most important time for children to begin exercising is between

the ages of 3 and 5.

He notes that boys and girls in this age group need at least three hours of activity every

day.

"That was not present in our previous guidelines.

But essentially, those recommendations are that children in the 3- to 5-year-old age

group really require about three hours of active activities per day.

That could be light activities, moderate activities, or even vigorous activities.

This is the kind of play that children normally engage in."

Doctors say it is important to start young.

They add that from birth to age 5, a child's brain develops more than at any other time

in life.

These developments have a lasting effect on a child's ability to learn and to succeed

in school and in life.

Also, Giroir says that children who start exercising at a young age are more likely

to establish healthy behaviors they will continue into adulthood.

Dr. Giroir does not suggest putting your 5-year-old on a "treadmill" or other exercise equipment.

He said, simply giving a child the time and space to play actively as they normally would

is enough.

The new guidelines say that children ages 6 through 17 get at least one hour of moderate

to vigorous activity a day.

Most of this activity should be aerobic exercise, such as biking, swimming or running.

Aerobic activity can strengthen the heart and lungs by making them work hard for several

minutes or more.

Exercise should also include muscle- and bone-strengthening activities, such as climbing trees or playground

equipment and playing sports.

Experts suggest that children get this kind of exercise at least three times a week.

For adults, the suggested length of time for exercise remains the same.

"So for adults, the guidelines recommend 150 minutes

per week of moderate to vigorous physical activity.

That could be brisk walking; it could mowing the lawn; it could be gardening; it could

be dancing … any kind of activity that gets your heart rate up and gets you exercising

moderately."

The federal government has changed its guidance for the amount of aerobic exercise adults

should have.

Earlier guidelines stated that aerobic activity is only effective if it lasts for at least

10 minutes.

Experts now say that even short amounts of aerobics can help.

It can provide short-term health benefits, such as lowering blood pressure, reducing

anxiety and improving sleep.

They also think adults need at least two days of muscle-strengthening exercise like pushups

or lifting weights.

The advice for older adults remains mostly unchanged from earlier federal guidelines.

However, those over age 65 should include activities that help aid balance and flexibility.

Better balance means fewer falls and less chance of injury.

The new guidelines have changed nothing about the dangers of sitting too much.

It is especially harmful and can even undo the benefits of exercise you may have gained.

And that's the Health & Lifestyle report.

I'm Anna Matteo.

The website Dictionary.com has chosen the term 'misinformation' as its word of the

year.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after Oxford Dictionaries chose 'toxic'

as its word of the year.

Many people mix up the meaning of misinformation with the word disinformation.

They sometimes use one term in place of the other.

Dictionary.com defines misinformation as "false information that is spread, regardless of

whether there is intent to mislead."

And it describes disinformation as "deliberately misleading or biased information; manipulated

narrative or facts; propaganda."

So what's the difference?

Officials at Dictionary.com say it comes down to what the writer or speaker actually means.

They say that "when people spread misinformation, they often believe the information they are

sharing."

But disinformation is often shared with the goal of misleading others.

For example, if people share information that they know to be false in a story or a picture,

that is disinformation.

Jane Solomon is a language expert with Dictionary.com.

She told VOA that the choice of misinformation, instead of disinformation, was done for a

reason.

She said, "disinformation is a word that looks outside of ourselves.

You can point a finger at someone who is spreading this disinformation."

As for misinformation, "there is a quality of looking inward and it helps us evaluateour

own behavior" to fight against the spread of misinformation.

The word misinformation has been used since the late 1500s.

But Solomon said the word was chosen this year because it also "ties to a lot of events

that are happening in 2018."

In Myanmar, misinformation, like hate speech and propaganda, fueled violence against Rohingya

Muslims.

And there were riots in Sri Lanka after stories that proved false set the country's Buddhist

majority against Muslims.

The disappearance and reported killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi fueled misinformation

about him and his fiancée.

And stories about Brazil's recent presidential election were filled with misinformation,

everything from incorrect voting times to false campaign promises.

Facebook and other social media websites have published misinformation, including images

of police arresting immigrants and long lines at voting stations in the United States.

They also posted incorrect voting hours and false voting requirements before the November

6 elections.

Liz McMillan is head of Dictionary.com.

She noted that the online publisher has chosen words like identity

in 2015, xenophobia in 2016, and complicit in 2017.

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