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Speaker 1: Stateside. Richard Arnland morning, It's kipig Daga morning, Mikel and

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Speaker 1: you too. The prisoners. What that seems to have been

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Speaker 1: coming for a while now, like years.

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Speaker 2: Uh. Yeah, they've been engaged in this secretly for many,

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Speaker 2: many months. So it's especially happy day for the families

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Speaker 2: of three Americans who've been set free in this hostage

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Speaker 2: swap today between the US and China. This is the result,

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Speaker 2: as I say, of these link negotiations, with the President

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Speaker 2: himself taking up directly with China's president she during the

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Speaker 2: recent summered in Peru. So what a moment it was

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Speaker 2: today when this trio John, Leon ky Lee and Mark

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Speaker 2: Swedan landed back here after years in custody. They arrived

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Speaker 2: in Texas and in return for these Americans, three Chinese

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Speaker 2: citizens were returned to their home country as well. One

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Speaker 2: was a Chinese intelligence officer, Shu Yuan Juan, who has

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Speaker 2: been serving a twenty year prison term after what was

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Speaker 2: a pretty dramatic FBI sting operation six years back. The

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Speaker 2: Chinese spy was arrested in Brussels by the FBI team

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Speaker 2: then extra dided by to the United States. On the

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Speaker 2: American side, Mark Swedan was held in a Chinese jail

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Speaker 2: on drug related charges for more than twelve years, and

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Speaker 2: at one point was sentenced by authorities there sentenced to death.

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Speaker 2: So quite a turnaround in his life. While both Lee

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Speaker 2: and Leon were charged with espionage, and Lee had been

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Speaker 2: held for eight years, during which time his son Harris

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Speaker 2: spoke at a congressional hearing in Washington just weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Every day I wake up, I shudder at the thoughts

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Speaker 2: of him crammed and attaining cell with anywhere from seven

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Speaker 2: to eleven other people. Yeah. President Biden has made a

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Speaker 2: brief appearance today speaking of his concerns for the Middle East,

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Speaker 2: including the US hostages held by Hamas. I think, with

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Speaker 2: the grace of God, you grew and magills a lot

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Speaker 2: for them to get some more progress in the momies. Well,

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Speaker 2: hope is eternal, isn't it meantime? Yeah? It is parade

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Speaker 2: day in New York, Philadelphia and Detroit and many other cities.

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Speaker 2: This was the start of the ninety eighth Macy's Thanksgiving

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Speaker 2: Day Parade, where it's been raining a little, but millions

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Speaker 2: of people turned out. One four year old kid said,

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Speaker 2: I like wet, but then this boy's name is River

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Speaker 2: River Hawley. There was a brief pro Palestidian protests where

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Speaker 2: some twenty one people were arrested for briefly blocking the

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Speaker 2: parade floats, but no one superglued they closed the road

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Speaker 2: as something last year. I think that many in this country, though,

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Speaker 2: feel the need for a break after this tumultuous season,

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Speaker 2: especially politically. This is a time for supposedly marking the

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Speaker 2: change of seasons. The approach at Christmas dates back to

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Speaker 2: the Pilgrims in sixteen twenty one. Three big football games

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Speaker 2: are being played today. It's also a day for family reunions,

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Speaker 2: with record numbers of flights people going to family gatherings,

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Speaker 2: which in this political season might not always be so easy,

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Speaker 2: right given the recent political clamors, So Leslie Jones of

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Speaker 2: The Daily Show Comedy show gave this advice in part

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Speaker 2: for clamping down on political chit chat at the family

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Speaker 2: dinner table.

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving, Leslie Jones will come to your house and po

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Speaker 1: lately than rejected when the conversation becomes political. I'm just

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Speaker 1: thankful that will V. Wade was finally overturned.

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Speaker 2: That's the conversation you want to start right now at

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Speaker 2: this table. While everybody's happy during Thanksgiving? Why are we

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Speaker 2: trying to be happy? You know what has them dry

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Speaker 2: ass turky? The way I see it is your generation

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Speaker 2: are all a bunch of lazy socialists.

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Speaker 1: What did you call them? Lazy? You can't even bring

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Speaker 1: proper pie to Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 2: And stop kissing the kids in the mouth.

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Speaker 1: I'll just say these transgender people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, ah, no politics, folks.

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Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving, mate, We'll see you next week. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Richard Arnold I state side the games he mentioned by

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Speaker 1: the way, Lions bees this morning. That won't be much

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Speaker 1: of a game because the beers aren't up to much.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys Giants That won't be much of a game because

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Speaker 1: the giants aren't up too much, and neither, as it

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Speaker 1: turns out, of the Cowboys. Although what uh is he playing?

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Speaker 1: So Cooper Rush? I was hoping for Trey Lance. The

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Speaker 1: Trey Lance story is an interesting story. For a while there,

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Speaker 1: who is the third string quarterback for the Cowboys was

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Speaker 1: going to be San Francisco's next great hope couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago. Don't have time to tell you the story,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, it all went pear shaped and he turned

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Speaker 1: out to be the third scring quarterback has never played

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Speaker 1: a game since. He almost could have played a game

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Speaker 1: today because not only is Dak Prescott injured, but Cooper

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Speaker 1: Russia is semi injured, which meant that Trey Lance might

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Speaker 1: have played anyway. The later game is the Pakis Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: that might be worth watching Uber. The FEDS in America

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Speaker 1: are after them. This is the app. If you've got

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Speaker 1: the app and you sign on to Uber one, there's

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Speaker 1: more than twenty five million subscribers all over the world. Thereafter,

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Speaker 1: this is this whole app. Once you're in, how do

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Speaker 1: you get out? Thing? Uber goes you get out in

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Speaker 1: twenty seconds or less. Don't make a big deal of this,

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Speaker 1: but the FTC says, well, and we'll see this so

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Speaker 1: in investigations underway.

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