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Guest  🇮🇪 Derek Hynes lives in Galway, Ireland and helps his family run their 100 year old candy shop.  He loves to travel and is coffee buddies with a porn-star in Los Angeles. He once hung out with Fight Club author Chuck Paliniuk. And we both share a love of Twin Peaks. Where else will this conversation go? That's why you've gotta' listen!

Good News  A hospitalized young girl in Livingston, New Jersey gets some winter magic from her nurses.

Headlines  NASA has landed an SUV-sized rover on Mars.
Dan talks to the Robot "Percy", live from Mars.
Ted Cruz fled to Mexico during the Texas freeze which has caused so much damage and hardship for his constituents.
Dan reads a new children's style story called "Ted Fled."

Showbiz News  Kim Kardashian has filed for divorce from Kanye West.
Daft Punk announced their retirement .
Dolly Parton is asking Tennessee lawmakers NOT to erect a statue of her on the Capitol grounds in Nashville.

Bonus Story  A woman in Alaska was recently attacked by a bear. Dan thinks the bear had it worse. He'll explain.

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