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Volcker pressed for restrictions on banks ability to trade in financial markets and to invest in private equity and hedge funds those regulations became known as the Volcker Rule I'm Mike hempen hours after a Saudi student killed 3 people at a Naval Air Station in Pensacola Florida Friday City officials say they were the victims of a cyber attack early Saturday morning but they are not saying whether or not the 2 instances are related breaking news an analysis a townhall dot com. More than 200 gun rights activists rallied in Richmond the capital of Virginia if not to fight any attempt by the new Democratic majority in the state legislature to pass new restrictions on gun ownership the god family guns rally was held just a month before the General Assembly is set to begin a session that's almost certain to include a variety of gun control proposals those include requiring universal background checks for gun buyers and prohibiting the sale of assault weapons those who attended the rally said such measures would do little to reduce mass shootings and other crimes but instead would punish responsible gun owners Heath Peters Washington we should learn later this week with or a judge in New York feels Harvey Weinstein should get harsher bail terms Prosecutors say he violated conditions of bail by disabling his ankle monitor so his whereabouts went on record for hours at a time but defense attorneys say it was not deliberate more on these stories at Town Hall dot com I'm Rhonda Rockstro. The family. Is clean shiny and healthy to. 1906. The. First in line is the. First in line with the number one. Order in the comments box and get 15 percent. Number one or. 50 percent. Thanks to the people. Using slang. This week so we are at the issues of the day the overview of. I was given is no such thing as normalcy right every day everything seems to be in play no matter what time of year it is we like to think that we can push all the other the rest of the world out of the way right just push everything from now to Christmas push everything out of the way but that doesn't work sometimes I'd like it to work but it doesn't and there are all kinds of things happening around the world and so they require some. Coverage cause donation and clarification sometimes comments but then we move on into the Christmas tree were told it's the holiday season that the that that So generally you get your a Christmas tree yes or no oh yeah I've had my Christmas tree since before Thanksgiving it was if you get it locally where you get. It's a it's a famous box California. Really if I were if I was going to get a real tree I would be able to get it so probably this weekend otherwise it would get dead before not a great place for a live tree but yeah I miss life trees and I know this year Victoria made the transition to fake tree as well you know there's a good thing here's a good reason for doing that Victoria this one I actually just pulled especially for you because there is a tree so shortage which miraculously happens every year around Christmas time a lot of people are going broke in New York City trying to get a live Christmas tree so ho trees in Manhattan is selling at the city's most expensive Christmas tree $6500.00 for a single Frazier fur tree Now this is a big one it's 20 feet but it's $65.00 I'm sorry sailors you can get 3 Louis Vuitton bags from. Well we always got a Frazier fur alive for Frazier for this is my 1st victory ever it looks Ok but and why yes well because we got one last year and we have forced. Taught air in our apartment and it's just the very dark place right away and so it just didn't seem worth it again so we got a fake one and you know it looks nice it's fine it's big it's 7 and a half feet so it looks nice but we always would buy a Frazier fur because I just love how they have almost like a bluish tint to the needles and they smell amazing but are Frazier firs in New York City we would spend for like a 6 foot $325.00 every year so it's I'm not surprised that but $6500.00 is crazy I mean well who has what they're looking for a 20 foot tree I know that's true but they actually sell this if you don't want the 20 footer you can actually get whatever you want but it's $325.00 per foot and this is all about those Fraser firs that light are in demand he said were sold out and apparently according to this vendor and others who might be a little less expensive than the Soho lot they are still like I mean they're still paying at least about $100.00 a foot in the economic crash of 2008 farmers in North Carolina Smokey and Blue Ridge Mountains planted fewer Frazier's which resulted now in the fewer trees that are available as the reach maturity according to the national Christmas tree has a tennis ball on your list for for them to mature and so they're saying at Manhattan's Tyler trees which is on 10th and 44th there's Fraser for that will run $1499.00 including delivery though installation etc So there's that. Current governor of. This lady who bills herself as the New York City tree lady her name is Heather Neville she upped her Frasier prices by 20 percent to 850 bucks but the price reaches closer to 1300 once you consider delivery installation Stanton tip which is all included So that's a deal the biggest increase they've ever seen in 16 years of operation according to this woman who is based in Chelsea she also pointed that big box stores like Home Depot have driven up prices by buying out the small. All crop of Frazier's in bulk and now there's nothing left for the mom and pop So they're charging a lot of money if you're going to be hitting up smaller tree lots for the holidays though keep an eye out those Fraser FIRs are going to be expensive this year especially if you're on the East Coast in New York City. Do you know who Adrian love it is. No doubt he is the head of the World Wide Web Foundation and he over the weekend was involved in a press conference in which he said the Internet quote is had a real crossword to it again that is that is how to authoritative it can get it out he said I think we're in a place right now that is a real crossroads on one hand we can see an incredibly exciting path for the World Wide Web where nurturing a lot of people with information it's creative it's liberating enables people to build businesses claim their basic rights all the very best in the past 25 years does it seem like it seems like it's been around forever doesn't it to a point but actually when you get right down to it the Internet's only been around for about 25 years yes Al Gore invented it exactly is the right time so on the other hand he said there's another path that we are more than familiar with which is a much more disk opiate use the dark path we have increasing numbers of data breaches . Further spread of dissed information misinformation. Government shutting down Internet access in different parts of the world censoring So all of those things add up to a moment of opportunity. The World Wide Web Foundation and the people that are at the top of it not profit organization I thought it was very interesting though Mr the other fellow co-founder Tim Berners Lee said quote How we respond to this abuse will determine whether the Web lives up to its potential as a global force and that was interesting given that the House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bill to combat one of the biggest problems with this connectivity and that's robo calls. There were only 3 people this is only that because Victoria's Representative Frank Pallone is the one who in it reduced this bill we all have robo calls I have so many of them it is I want to throw my chevrons us yet there are many ways rain rain in the rinks is that there was I Do Not Call Registry which is just supposed never work doesn't work then we're going to all know doesn't do a damn thing so once I hear the once a come on the cell phone that tell you that the social secure Social Security is at risk. People are freaking out about that that what kind of a person does this sort of thing where we have these kind of human beings that I can't it isn't an extension with one of them how do you know I've actually only gotten messages left your Social Security this is the Social Security office and you may need to call us immediately and all this other stuff which obviously I never call back but I didn't know that there was a live person there so were they trying to scam you when you answered. They were calling nonstop I mean when I say nonstop I mean literally this was multiple times every single day from the same number and they were messages and they would say I think it was that my social security was at risk or something stop and so finally I just picked up and they said Please hold to be transferred to blah blah blah so I waited and this guy answers speaking the King's English I mean really just you know given it to me my need met your social security number and I said Listen here You blankety partner you know stop calling my phone I know you're a scam artist you know go. You know I do read your legs arms out you. Know and so I was a little rough around him so then he all of us does as I started on that he switches to his real voice which is with a heavy thick like Arab accent and he starts saying very nasty things including some of the nastiest words you can think of for lady's genitalia right back at me and yes so finally I hung up and screamed I said listen I've got this number I'm going to call and report you to the police blah blah blah and then I hung up and you know I never heard from again so that was cool. But it's amazing how he went from being Bob to like being some guy God knows where he's stationed and yeah yeah but see how many people believe that this is what's so I don't know about my grandparents who were younger full and smart and beautiful people if they got that call they would flip out thinking that somebody had messed v.s.o. Szell security not knowing if they rely on it they up 16 past the hour on the d j v program. 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Part of the. Your listening to on the air with Janet Victoria. All right so I was hoping we could find the old bad. Guys are bad men so in Los Angeles the police department there is testing a device. That wraps up your body and how they're trying to figure this that's a very used remember from the barrel be able to wrap the plastic rather rope or whatever it is around the bad guys so they're actually going to that's what the l.a.p.d. Is going to do now instead of actually just chasing people but don't tase me bro there's a new device that they're going to be using at least several 100 l.a.p.d. Officers are going to test out that won't use force but it will detain people it's called the full wrap $100.00 fires a Kevlar cord that ensures that your body cannot move it's going to restrict mobility giving officers a few seconds to swarm the person without using measures like a taser or a gun this was made by Las Vegas rap technologies and it deploys a tether to entangle someone between 10 and 25 feet away Barbette is you know right out there it appears as it does it work fast enough to get the gun right that I don't know that might that might be Batman material but I think this is going to be instead of I think cops are going to use lethal force someone holds a weapon I've pointing a weapon at them but this would probably replace the taser more than anything else when they're trying to control someone who's on ruly instead of tasing on they'll just Batman I'm rabbit. Ok use your imagination our the way to make sure the rap that yeah 21 of the hour here on the program. 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Of the foot just better. Quality sound time. Christmas. Family or any. Slack and I. Believe. Me I am and. I finally. Gave in Letterman Darlene Love the queen of Christmas after she sang her classic Christmas baby please come home for 28 straight years on his program and then for the last 5 years on The View Christmas has taken Darlene Love all over the world she has one big thing still on our wish list being part of the annual Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center she said I keep saying I want to do that I want to do that I want to do that I've never done it but it's never too late I still really do believe I'll get to like that 11 day I think somebody's going to say what will we waiting for why haven't they done that I think that's a legitimate question yeah he's a put Mariah Carey up there every year as a lip sync so why not let Darlene Love juice saccharin. Says she's having to be part of other holiday celebrations being in the cast of new Netflix movie holiday rush which premiered last month's run of concerts she's going. Now all month long until the 22nd of December fact she's coming around here I was thinking of going to go buy myself a few you know. Music she's been more prevalent in when I turned on the radio I've been driving a lot last 4 or 5 days I've been listening to Christmas music stations both in Boston and Worcester and she's been there for sure she remembered by the way she was the wife of. The Lethal Weapon remember that was this that's Darlene Love who plays Danny. A lot. Like Anyway she says she's happy to be a part of holiday celebrations Jason Derulo meanwhile is going to join Darlene for her appearance in the episode of The View on December 20th also recorded all alone on Christmas for Home Alone 2 in 1902 issue courted Christmas Baby Please Come Home 963 for a Christmas gift from Phil Spector which he recorded with members of the Wrecking Crew last Sonny and Cher in Los Angeles she said I kept saying we're going to do a new Christmas on that's not going to work nobody wants to hear a new Christmas. Phil Spector started adding all the bells and whistles and once we finished with it I listen to what we did everybody was there I think we got a monster on and and 55 years later here we are love predator continuing stamina on 5 am kickboxing classes 5 days a week he has no plans for a new album to follow introducing darling Love came out a couple of years ago but she's not ruling it out we have a few sticks in the fire it's just seeing what catches fire. At Sarah Darlene Love of Christmas time now it's Keith Urban in the spotlight has released a new Christmas song called I'll Be Your Santa tonight he sings about bad weather ruining his holiday with a massive snowstorm standing stranding his loved ones all over the country. Rather than Then throw in the towel he makes the best of his time alone with his lover we could be not here nice Don't Worry Baby I'll be your Santa tonight. There were the lyric goes crank this up to please. Me No. To cut a pet. Me. And in. Your mama's a real downer. You are a very well listen to this I think it's a cute hook. See if you know that you are just very very slim and I love you as a boy yeah I do like it I just think it's funny I don't know I'll be your sanity tonight that sort of thing. That's what I do yes you're going to break and enter into my house. Or Your Baby Tonight running after the hour in the j.v. Program. 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Ok we're all standing where do you we're looking at you John in a maze right here please keep talking. Your every word. Question I've heard it stated about this with the demise of the honey bee the. Saturday morning. Wherever she. Places. Here we are with another focus on lots of things that are going on in the world some surprises one of the trending stories the Victoria's following has to do with Ryan Reynolds will do some people in the news in Iraq has got a lot of attention for this new. They had you drink gin either of you I do not like at all. Like pine trees actually. Yeah it's made from juniper berries to me it's very Piney you know a lot of people like a lot of people drink gin martinis or gin and tonic. Not stirred Yeah Ok All right so what's this. Ryan Reynolds own aviation gin and the company is kind of become famous for their very clever marketing and he does a lot of the aviation gin ads and so last week we talked well everyone kept talking about the peloton Christmas commercial where the poor wife is gifted a peloton bike by her husband even though she didn't ask for one and then she basically goes through this whole thing and everyone hated the commercial there's a huge backlash so what Ryan Reynolds decided to do was he hired the actress who plays the peloton wife and she now stars in the new aviation gin holiday commercial and if you haven't seen the ad it's a very cute ad so it opens on she sitting at a bar She's in between 2 girlfriends and they each have gin martinis in front of them and she's just sort of despondently staring into space and her 2 friends don't know what to say to or because they know that she's in the middle of this you know firestorm of backlash and so she takes a sip of the gin and her 1st words are she goes Well this is this is really you know this gin is really smooth and then her friend chimes in we can get you another if you want like don't worry you're safe here and so essentially they do a toast she downs the entire martini at once her friends kind of look a little surprised then they hander another one and so in the news then you see aviation gin it's a really cute clever ad and obviously capitalizing on probably the biggest marketing I don't know if you want to call it a scandal but it certainly has gone to that level for this year there I don't think any other commercial has gotten near the attention that the peloton added in its course it got attention for all the wrong reasons it was called classist sexist. All kinds of stuff people really not not have already knows who aviation but who owns aviation gin or what it's all about though right well I mean I just I certainly doing well capitalizing on it yeah and the actress herself I think her name I forget her name now I have reading about it this weekend but she has said that she's not really on social media but she said when she heard about the backlash she said she just had no idea that this was even going to happen and the guy who plays her husband in the ad he gets he was really maligned as well even though he's just an actor but people don't seem to be able to separate reality from their actions so I don't know if you know it's she said she's happy for the work and she's happy that aviation that Ryan Ryan Reynolds reached out to her to her agent to try to track her down to find out who she was and then to hire her so she's obviously grateful for the work she's into with the biggest ads of the year now give her a couple of other names in the news Carol spinny who is the voice of Big Bird has passed away at the age of 85 the co-founder of Sesame Street Joan Ganz Cooney called her contributions to says from the St Louis not only gave his big bird not really a grouch he was so much of himself we it says to me workshop mourn his passing and feel an immense gratitude for all he's given to Sesame Street sesame street celebrating this year with 50 years I think and Carol's friend he was that he was on the show at the beginning retired last year but that was that voice is not the voice of people and Oscar the Grouch to get both right yeah he did yeah yeah he was a big bird that came from the mind of Jim Henson and to Kermit Love back in 69 it's been he performed the role within over this in kindness he attributed to never forgetting what it was like to be a kid. Warm and understanding he was the same apparently so lots and lots of all weekend long came up to him he was a New Yorker because Sesame Street was all filmed in Brooklyn right now so yeah lots and lots of like even Mayor de Blasio put out a really nice tribute to him and it was it was and then actually the woman who you were just referencing there the co-creator of sensory experience Cooney You know yeah this weekend she was at the at the White House or at they had a state dinner for all the people who are being honored with the Kennedy Center Honors they actually taped it on Sunday it's going to air next Sunday is the host. Oh is it I did yes yeah yeah so so yes my street is definitely kind of I'm sure they're going to mention I don't know if they taped it already actually now that I think about it I think it is 8 days before you know it was usually done week or 10 days before and so but it anyway who doesn't want to have I remember growing up watching my children watching this and now I'm in a way because we haven't introduced miles to too much video at all but I think this is something that he could 5 don't think at 5 years Oh sure yeah and what goes on for sure yeah how did you run this relate actually yeah couple of other names in the news Ron Liebman you remember him played Jennifer Aniston's father 1st on friends but then he went on he was in a number of sitcoms out of the use that old I didn't see the seventy's he passed away over the weekend as did Renee I've never pronounce his guy's name right I didn't see him in Benson but he was in Boston Legal you'd recognize an instantly if you saw him he was always your noise to say what he was everything he was a very like you know. 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After the hour here on the program many of you are looking around a designer shoes for a designer a watch this is really cool maybe designer sheets or a designer makeup kit who are made it whatever it is there are all kinds of things that you are confronted with in terms of decisions as to whether you want to spend money to buy something that supposedly has more value because it was created by a famous designer or was it created by a famous designer here with some warnings about the fakes they're around for the holidays and man there are plenty of his Steve talent who is a fellow that has been working in this field pretty much all of his life a myriad of different industries and technology so this is something that is important for people I think there's so much of this stuff though Steve where do we even begin well. 1st off I'd like to thank you for having me on the show because I personally believe that this is a critical issue at this point for consumers it really comes down to not just what you want to buy but where you're looking to buy it and if you took advantage of all those big black Friday sales and you physically ran out to a shopping mall or a boutique or a high end store of any kind the chances of those products coming back home and being counterfeit are very small but now with the burgeoning e-commerce world where there are not just online stores but sort of consolidated online marketplaces such as Amazon which has its own products its own sales but also again as a platform for almost any enterprise to establish their own store within the Amazon ecosystem that's where you begin to have problems all right so let's find out what their how frequent the various consumers are victims of this fake stuff well on line every single day is the answer to your question almost in every product sector you know from the luxury goods you spoke of all the way down to every day consumer items like. Clothes detergent there are counterfeit products available on Amazon to be purchased today as an example my wife this past week we have one of those cool Britta filter and water filter. And she ordered Britta replacement cartridges. And they came to our house just a couple days ago and let me tell you they are not authentic filter cartridges for those water pictures they are decidedly counterfeit and my wife bought them on Amazon but I went to the store front where she purchased them from and of course the item was sourced from China not from a domestic American warehouse so the Chinese are in to find interesting Apple reports 90 percent of all the products that they purchase directly from Amazon were counterfeit so this all the Chinese now we're talking about here the fragrances that are supposed to be from France and they're not some of them have urine and bacteria and any freeze in a good guide Yeah it's a it's a decidedly non american originating influx of counterfeit goods into the United States a lot of it is definitely coming from China a lot of it is coming from India and Pakistan believe it or not especially when we look at some of the online pharmaceutical marketplaces that that is but a large influx from India and Pakistan you know I find the enemy to be a little bit of an axe grinding here the government is all over farmers and people who are working in our country and doing a good job raising food but they're being inundated with kinds of committed to Ference where they have the government when it comes to this stuff while the government is actually doing things customs. So our customs office. Is designed you know obviously for people coming in and out but it also has border protection for products so there are customs officials which are actively looking at the containers coming from China the containers coming from Mexico all the stuff coming in through the ports of call for example and I think there's a great exe a great sample of what customs can do just last week in Philadelphia customs seized a large container full of tens of thousands of oral b. Replacement spending toothbrush heads and they found them and they noticed some things that were a little bit off with the packaging because they have some images and partner with . With the manufacturer if they come from. They came from China. And I just think about that though where you have a tooth brush with those bristles and those rotating heads who knows what they're made out there who knows if they're going to last I checked out the Web site says tech One dot com s.y.s. t e C h one. Because k. 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Expanding their meal kit business company says it plans to start selling free portion to meal kits and simpler one step meals in 2000 stores this year the old kids have become popular particularly with working parents who had little time or energy to plan meals and shop for groceries blue apron Hello fresh and plated have tried to outdo one another but now they have to contend with the 2 largest retailers entering into the space blue apron laid off a lot of workers last year share price down 74 percent Wal-Mart once again putting another company out of business that the American way I guess I just have very little use especially since I found out I think I told you last week and that they have in essence put a lot of dairy farmers out of business by deciding to do business with just the huge mega dairy producers that have 51015000 cows because they get the milk cheaper what they're getting is cheap crap what they're selling us cheap crap but that doesn't bother them because that's what they sell is cheap crap so more cheap crap in the form of the food to the bottle milk that you get is garbage that's taken from me a dairy farmer who knows good milk they don't have it they're not getting it and you're not going to get it either I hope it makes a difference either maybe it does maybe it doesn't. McDonald's says that frozen beef is out fresh beef now it's going to be used in their quarter pounders as a Quarter Pounder in every u.s. Store except for the stores know why in Alaska will have fresh beef no preservatives big Donald crafted recipe will have fresh beef patties now is there a difference in the taste in terms of Big Macs and what you get I don't go to these places so I don't know there's a big mac taste like what you get across the street at Burger King or at Wendy's hamburgers hamburgers hammer I know they sourced from my knowledge of how they buy their beef the way they buy you know they go to the markets of the the animal markets and they buy they have buyers in each region of the country that buys old cows and that's a slaughter and they grind everything in the callup into their hamburger that's what they do so that must mean that they're doing it more locally in order to make this stuff fresh they've got to have it in the store within a day or 2 of it being created for that or being frozen sounds like quite a challenge actually being able to do that McDonald's has been tinkering with Happy Meals for several years in response to pressure from a lot of public health groups and so this is their I guess the latest way of them dealing with the vagaries of. 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