ABC News Coorespondant Derricke Dennis joins to program to alarm Chip that cigarette sales are up for the first time in 20 years. The output to young people especially has the Franklin concerned,

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Is being the richest person on the planet really a compliment? Why aren’t you doing good with that money? Also, who's against a billionare tax?

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Laura Reiley, business of food reporter says some fast-food items contain plastics are linked to serious health problems, a new report shows.

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Chip discuesses the recent closures of In-and-Outs in the Bay as well as Ted Cruz defending parents doing Nazi salutes.

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ABC's Andy Field  - Social media executives from YouTube, SnapChat and TikTok all vigorously defended how their platforms protect children from inappropriate content at a Senate subcommittee hearing this morning.  But senators on the committee highlighted several examples of inappropriate content slipping past those safeguards and getting in front of children. “The content that appears on snapchat is appropriate for an age group of 13 and above,” said Jennifer Stout, VP of Global Public Policy at Snap Inc. approx.

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Callers have their ideas as to why the cost of everything is so high.

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ABC's Alex Stone has the latest: Proctor and Gamble and others have said their staple products are costing more.  Same at Nestle.  Well, it also means that your Thanksgiving dinner could be the most expensive ever.  This year’s American Farm Bureau prediction for the cost of a Thanksgiving dinner won’t be released until late November but it’s expected to be up this year.  Granted last year’s was the lowest since 2010.  But everything from turkeys, to what you roast them in, to canned cranberries are all costing more this year.  The price of turkeys is expected to be above the record of $1.36 a pound set in 2015.  Turkeys are more expensive because of the price of corn.

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Phil Ting on the future of gambling in California. 

How Facebook handles misinformation - only in America. FB is censored in America, not so much in third world countries.

Hertz does something cool - renting electric cars

Seven congressmen gave tours of the Capitol on January 5th: Louie Gohmert, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, and Andy Biggs.

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Faye Flam Science Writer for Bloomberg on Neil Degrasse Tyson.

Sports betting could come to the state, and so could millions to help homeless. Chip calls BS.

 

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Jason Nathanson - ABC's Entertainment Reporter - has new details about the deadly on-set shooting of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust” in New Mexico. Questions about how something like this could happen have prompted more than 25,000 to sign a petition banning real guns on sets.

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