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Joe M. Turner
I help organizations amaze their audiences. ♣ NYTimes Recommended Speaker/Entertainer ♥ Magician, Mentalist, Consultant, TEDx Speaker ♠ Association/Conference Keynotes and Programs ♦️ Live, Virtual, or Hybrid: Let's Go!
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- Key words
- Chunking
- Musical
- Letters
- Rhymes
- Location
- Linking
- Images
- Stories

Christmas Capitalism
1. Pure Plastic
2. Junk
3. Garbage
4. Trash
5. Nobody Will Remember, Needs or Wants
 
We’re recording this podcast in the Truesdell Professional Building and we’re not wearing pants. 
And airing out their dirty laundry are by boys:

1. Rosco – Yeah
2. Curly Joe - Certainly
3. Tiny Tim – Yes Whoo
4. Reverend Ralph – Oh
5. Leon Gasomaskus – From Damascus
6. Bubba – Wow
7. Tarzan – Yell

Time to
• Think,
• Reflect,
• Laugh,
• Drink, and
• Throw Stones at Hypocrites

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The U.S. Capitol Police are set to re-install a razor-topped fence around the Capitol building ahead of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. According to a report from the New York Post, the fence will be built over the course of the coming week. U.S. Capitol Police are bracing for a potential trucker protest, similar to that of Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest movement, that is set to arrive in Washington, D.C., for the March 1 speech.

A high-ranking member of the increasingly totalitarian Trudeau government told Canada’s CTV that Freedom Convoy donors are akin to terrorism funders and that Trump supporters should “worry” about retribution from Canadian authorities who will be coming after them. 

It has been estimated that roughly 40% of donations to Freedom Convoy crowdfunding accounts came from American citizens and the Canadian government has stated they may prosecute donors.

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Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman said Monday that she was open to lifting interest rates by more than the traditional quarter-point at the central bank's next meeting in March. Bowman's comments came after several officials on Friday pushed back against the idea of a half-point increase in the Fed's benchmark short-term interest rate. The Fed is looking to raise rates as inflation surged to 7.5% in January compared with a year earlier, the biggest increase in four decades. The last time the federal reserve raised rates by 50 basis points, or half a percent was in May of 2000.

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To encourage those travelers, Delta just announced a brilliant strategy: it's jumping on board with Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL).  Over the past two years, the Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) industry has exploded alongside the surge in online shopping. The idea is that a shopper can spread out payments, usually over three-to-six months, depending on the type of purchase. It turns out, people really like the idea, with BNPL representing almost $100 billion in 2