Le Show; 2013-08-18

From deep inside your radio. Ladies and gentlemen, news of AFPAC. Oh, what did I do? AFPAC! First of all, on today's broadcast, the free and fair election foundation of Afghanistan, FIFA, with an E, released to report this week that shows insecurity, fraud, and registration violations have marred the first phase of the country's voter registration drive, having an election next year for the new president, just as we withdraw, how many troops? FIFA found thousands of cases where individuals had received voter cards without being asked to provide valid ID documents, as well as thousands of cars that went to people who were underage. The report also notes that insecurity led to delays in opening several voting centers, particularly those trying to register women. To combat these challenges, the agency said Afghanistan's independent election commission must do more to ensure valid documents are checked and urge the international community to strengthen its observation of the second phase of the campaign.

Meanwhile, Afghanistan's future security will remain dependent on international troops for many years after the withdrawal in 2014. According to the U.S. commander of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, you see, with the formal handover to Afghans closing in, intense debate has under way about how many troops the United States and its NATO allies should leave behind. The White House favors about 7,000 troops, did you know that? Some of the U.S. military would prefer two to three times as many. However, many, there are left behind, they'll play a vital role in supporting the Afghan national security force, according to U.S. General Joseph Dunford, in an interview with writers this week, he argued for a significant presence after the withdrawal. Quote, the post-2014 presence has a lot more complicated than the numbers and the numbers have become a distraction to be honest with you.

It'll battle a lot more than numbers, it's about what capability is required to sustain the Afghan security forces. Unquote, sorry, 12 years into the war, the Taliban and other insurgents are still able to make telling blows against foreign troops and Afghan government installations that makes the decision about the post-2014 force even more important. The current force is 87,000 troops, three-quarters of the American. Dunford says the intense debate about the size of the residual force was quote, not helpful. Oh, I'm so sorry. One of the sticking points about the force has been the suspension of talks between Afghanistan and the United States over a bilateral security pact. You may remember the collapse of a similar pact between the United States and Baghdad led the U.S. to pull all of our troops out of Iraq, and Iraq has since descended back into sectarian violence, have you noticed that? In case you haven't quote, Iraq is moving back into a primary state of civil war and

its internal focus is coming back to counterinsurgency counterterrorism according to Anthony Korseman of the Center for Strategic and International Study. The U.S. is trying to sell missile defense systems to Iraq according to defense news, but the real war problems in Iraq are very much dominated by internal stability, says Korseman. But the U.S. continues to sell a lot of stuff to countries in the Middle East. The sale of radar and missile systems to Iraq follows a trend for U.S. sales in a larger trend for U.S. sales in the region according to defense news, including a sale to the United Arab Emirates of a sophisticated radar and deals announced in November of last year with Qatar and the UAE for terminal high altitude area defense fire units, launchers and interceptors for $8.4 billion, nice work, boys.

And speaking of the condition of Iraq, since we won there, check out this story from Washington Post regarding Lebanon, a deadline by Rudewal, Lebanon has no stranger to explosion since the country's 15-year civil war ended in 1990. They have largely taken the form of targeted assassinations. But since Hezbollah has begun sending fighters to Syria to help President Assad battle a largely Sunni opposition, the civil war there has taken an increasingly sectarian turn, reprisal attacks on the Shiite movement in Lebanon have multiplied and less cited a bombing this past Thursday as evidence that Iraq style sectarian bombings, that's the Washington Post's description, have now reached Lebanon as Sunni Shiite divisions widen. Iraq style sectarian divisions, yes we did light a candle. And now ladies and gentlemen news of nice, nice corp, nice people doing nice things, Scotland

Yard is investigating news international owned by nice corp as a corporate suspect over the hacking and bribery offenses. According to the independent newspaper it's learned that metropolitan police has opened an active investigation into the corporate liabilities of the group which has recently been repranded news UK, or nice UK which could have serious implications for the ability of its parent corporation, nice corp to operate in the United States, one of Rupert Murdoch's most senior lawyers has been interviewed under caution on behalf of the company to other very senior figures have been officially cautioned for corporate offenses. Development has caused according to the independent pandemonium at the upper echelons of the Empire, shortly afterwards executives in America ordered that the company dramatically scale back its corporation with Scotland Yard on those ongoing investigations of hacking and bribery.

A news corporation analysis of the effects of a corporate charge produced in New York said the consequences could quote kill the corporation and 46,000 jobs would be in jeopardy. That's the corporation that owns the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal in the United States. Lawyers for the media behemoth have pleaded with the Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute the company as it would not be in the public interest to put thousands of jobs at risk. That's right. Their size would be a barrier to prosecution. Does that sound like a familiar strategy to any bankers out there? Jason Zweifach, the General Counsel of News Corporation, flew into London for emergency talks with Scotland Yard. He told police, quote, crappy governance is not a crime. The downstream effects of a prosecution would be apocalyptic. The U.S. authorities' reaction would put the whole business at risk as licenses would be at risk, unquote, ie, broadcasting licenses.

Or Fox television stations, which are owned by a separate corporation now. That's why it's… nice court. These people doing nice things, hello, welcome to Lysha. I'm Lazy when I'm looking at I'm lazy, oh, don't you want to save me? I'm lazy when I'm loving, I'm lazy when I'm playing, I'm lazy with my girlfriend 1000 times a day, I'm lazy when I'm speaking, I'm lazy when I walk, I'm lazy when I'm

laughing, I'm lazy when I talk, I open up my mouth, air comes rushing out, nothing new, nothing ever, how you like me now, wouldn't it be mad, wouldn't it be fine, lazy look, a lady dancing, loving all the time, oh, we get out I'm lazy, oh, don't you want to save me? Well, some folks they got money and some folks lives are sweet, some folks make decisions and some folks clean the streets now, imagine what it feels like, imagine how it sounds, imagine life is perfect and everything works out, no tears are falling from my eyes, I'm keeping all the pain inside, now don't you want to live with me?

I'm lazy as a man can be, oh, we get out I'm lazy, oh, don't you want to save me? Imagine as a girlfriend, imagine as a job, imagine as an answer, imagine as a god, imagine I'm a devil, imagine I'm a saint, lazy money, lazy sexy lazy out of space, no tears are falling from my eyes, I'm keeping all the pain inside, now don't you want to live with me? I'm lazy as a man can be, oh, we get out I'm lazy, oh, don't you want to save me? I'm lazy when I work, lazy on the bed, screaming all you like, but it only fades away, I'm lazy when I'm praying, lazy on the job

I'm lazy, mind the lazy eye, lazy, lazy bottom, heart man, heart lives, heart keeping it all inside Good times, good God, I'm so lazy I almost stop I'm lazy, oh, don't you want to save me? I'm lazy, oh, don't you want to save me? From London, England, home with the Brits, I'm Harry Shira, welcome you to this edition

of the show, and now ladies and gentlemen, news of our friend, the Adam. You remember when the nuclear football described the the strange little a pertinence that American presidents took with them wherever they went in case they needed to push the big button, it was I think they still have it anyway a new nuclear, nuclear football comes into sharp focus this week, the Yucca Mountain dump in Rebuke to the Obama administration, the Federal's appeal, a federal appeals court rule this week that the nuclear regulatory commission has been violating federal law

really by delaying a decision on that proposed dump. Don't call it a dump, it's a repository, okay, it's a repository dump, by a two to one vote the court of appeals, order the commission to complete the licensing process and approve or reject the energy department's application for a never completed, never begun waste storage site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. The court said the nuclear agency was, quote, simply flouting the law when it allowed the Obama administration to continue plans to close the proposed waste site, the action goes against the federal law that designated Yucca Mountain as the nation's sole high level nuclear waste repository, quote, the president may not decline to follow a statutory mandate or prohibition simply because of policy objections, said the judge writing the majority opinion, that would be news to most recent presidents, don't you think? The NRC is reviewing the decision, said a spokesman, energy department secretary Ernest Monise says the Yucca Mountain project is a complete stalemate, he says he's on no evidence

of that changing, currently we don't have funding, that's because the Senate led by Harry Reed, Senator from guess where, Nevada, Nevada has refused funding for Yucca Mountain. The dispute has stretched back more than three decades, the government has spent an estimated $15 billion on the site but has never completed it, no waste is stored there, South Carolina and Washington state were among several parties to the lawsuit seeking to force the NRC to rule on the Yucca Mountain application, why? Because both states have large nuclear waste sites that would get emptied if Yucca Mountain could take their nuclear waste, there's no money for Yucca Mountain says Reed, we've cut out funding for many years now and there's none in our budget to stop it, sorry to start it, Reed is a long time opponent, Yucca Mountain has drawn nearly unanimous opposition for Nevada elected officials, it's nuclear football, you mean the American style, I mean

the American style, data line sacramental preparing for months of battle over who should pay the estimated $4.1 billion cost of permanently shutting down the San Anofray nuclear power plant, which closed last June, Southern California Edison has launched a public relations campaign suggesting that, guesses and ladies, no, not ladies, rate payers pick up part of the cost, on the eve of legislative hearings, on the issue of the utility bought an ad in the LA Times, they still have those, what ads, no LA Times, yes, closing the power plant is in the best interest of customers it said and rate payers should be prepared to pitch in, company you may recall discovered at hundreds of news team generating tubes were wearing out, and it decided that keeping the plant open till the problem was solved would be too costly, quote, if a utility asset must be retired before the end of the expected life the utility recovers from customers, its reasonable investment costs, Edison wrote,

it's important to make sure our customers know about how the utility business works, and why there is such a thing as cost recovery says company president, Ronald Litzinger. I'm glad costs can recover, no, I don't think it really, data line Michigan the May 5 release of 80 gallons of slightly radioactive water from the Palisades nuclear power plant into Lake Michigan, wasn't planned, but the incident brought into focus what many southwest Michigan residents most likely don't realize, according to the harbor counting news, the region's two nuclear power plants palisades and the cook plant routinely discharge radioactive material into the air and into Lake Michigan. The NRC allows such releases as long as they're closely monitored and don't release federal radiation release standards, plants need to discharge small amounts of radioactive materials to operate, says Jack Geissner, branch chief for the regional NRC office, Jack John Cassidy is a senior health physicist for the NRC regional office.

He says radiological releases are an inevitable part of the nuclear power industry, quote, they would like to recycle as much as possible of their radioactive water, but there's business needs, unquote, nice matching of number and whatever that is, you know, maybe a grammar I don't, I remember that isn't grammar. The NRC standard for occupational radiation doses at nuclear power plants is 5 REM a year, it rarely happens that a plant exceeds that Cassidy said, all of this is public, we're not keeping anything secret, the radiation from nuclear effluence is no different than the radiation we can get from X-rays are going to the dentist, he said. But it's more, because it's an addition to, and we've been told, forever, there's no dose that's too low and it's cumulative, yeah, we'll talk to you that. There's a continuous gaseous effluent all the time Cassidy adds airborne emissions coming

from things as simple as the air exchangers in a plant's air conditioning system. All nuclear power plants along large bodies of water such as Lake Michigan routinely discharged, slightly radioactive water, these effluent releases are called batch releases. For the NRC, the rule of thumb is the nuclear power plant will have 20 to 40 annual batch releases per reactor, anything? Thinking about batch releases. Good. DataLine Plymouth, Massachusetts, the pilgrim nuclear power plant has been forced to reduce its power output after this week's heat wave made the water in Cape Cod Bay to warm to use for cooling the reactor. That's right, as the ocean and Bay waters rise in temperature, the source of power we're told would help prevent global warming has to shut down or cut back because the water is too hot for cooling.

The saltwater, the plant uses is required to be no warmer than 75 degrees the temperature this week. What about that? Too hot to cool? Too hot to cool. DataLine, Japan, the cash-trapped operator of the Stricken Fook plant has presented its creditor banks with a plan to swing back to the black in the current fiscal year without restarting any of its nuclear plants. Under the plan, Teppco would again raise electricity rates. This time by 8.5%. The utility raised its industrial power rates by 15% last year and by 8.5% for households. In summer last year, to pay for the cleanup and dig commissioning, I don't think that's why they're called that, but two workers at the disaster stricken Fook nuclear power plant were exposed to radiation through a contaminated mist of water.

This, according to the Japan Daily Press, it was initially thought the contamination was from radioactive dust, radiation was detected on the worker's faces and hair, no apparent initial injuries were detected, the 10 affected workers were then ordered to have full body scans to see if any of their internal organs were exposed to the radiation. Monitor's worn by the workers themselves detected exposure levels as much as 10 beckons per square centimeter, that's higher than the safe radiation exposure level, according to Teppco. But it's mist, not dust. It is mist, not dust, that's correct. And finally, while conducting an investigation at the Shiran Harris nuclear power plant in North Carolina, workers found that a pipe on the side property was leaking into the soil, nearly 10,000 gallons of water were allowed to escape into the surrounding area, containing some 5,800 picocuries per liter of radioactive tritium. The leak was secured, sorry, stopped, but not before, over 800,000 beckorals of radiation

were released. Tritium has a half-life of 12.3 years, and is capable of moving through soil quickly. The EPA standard for Tritium and Drinking Water is 20,000 picocuries per liter. So, relax. All right, we're relaxed. It's good to relax, isn't it, clean, safe, too cheap to meet her, her friend, the atom, and now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the warm, won't you? Hmm, yes, we can. In a rare opportunity to directly compare today's plant communities with a survey taken in the same area 50 years ago, a University of Arizona-led research team has provided the first on-the-ground evidence that Southwestern plants are being pushed to higher elevations

by an increasingly warmer and drier climate. Findings confirmed that previous hypotheses are correct in their prediction that mountain communities in the Southwest will be strongly impacted. There's your verification by an increasingly warmer and drier climate, and that the area is already experiencing rapid vegetation change. This is along the Catalina Highway, and the Catalina Mountain, Santa Catalina Mountain, north east of Tucson. Our study provides the first on-the-ground proof of plants being forced significantly upslope due to climate warming in southern Arizona says Richard, Bruska, a research scientist in the University of Arizona's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. If climate continues to warm as the climate models predict, the sub-alpine mixed conifer forests on the top of the mountains, and the animals dependent upon them, could be pushed right off the top and disappear. Although they'll just build more mountain molding.

Climate change is set to trigger more frequent and severe heat waves in the next 30 years regardless of the amount of CO2 we emitted to the atmosphere, according to a new study. Extreme heat waves such as those that hit the U.S. in 2012 and Australia in 2009 dubbed three SIGMA events by the researchers are projected to cover double the amount of global land by 2020, quadruple the amount by 2040, meanwhile more severe summer heat waves classified as five SIGMA events will go from being essentially absent in the present day to covering around 3% of the global land surface by 2040. The new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters finds that in the first half of this century these projections will occur regardless to the amount of more CO2 we emit. After that, the rise and frequency of extreme heat waves becomes dependent on the emission scenario adopted. So we're semi-baked as of now. News of the warm ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast.

And now, oh it's a bumper crop today. As the trend continues to proliferate, is it a trend, is it a fad, is it a thing? I don't judge, I just present for your entertainment and edification. It's more examples of interviewees beginning answers to questions with no conclusion yet being drawn, beginning them I say with the word so. The initial so as it's called in the lexicological literature, so sit back, relax, and let your weekend fill with some answers beginning with the word so. You start off the book with Brandon, can you tell us his story?

So Brandon was a 34-year-old African-American young man. And what about the fact that he is African-American, that we see higher unemployment in young African Americans than with whites who have similar backgrounds? So I would say it's more a question of whether he's taking the right risks. What are the typical milestones of adulthood as far as these people are concerned? So they've kind of given up on the traditional pathway of moving out of their parent's house. I would tell you when you asked what they felt like they were adults. So they would tell me these stories of, well, I had a really hard childhood. What is the situation today? Is Egypt helpless? So what you're seeing today is the dark side of the political awakening. What would you advise a president to do about our financial assistance to Egypt's military? So I think the role of the US and the role of Europe is much more than the financial

aid they give. Who's a police officer now? Do you look for Saudi Arabia or the UAE or Qatar to step up and take power in Egypt, either in a direct or indirect way? So this notion of a police officer and this notion of a global police officer, I think, has become outdated. What can be the new destination for the impoverished of your Egypt? So Egypt had two problems. First of all, for people who are not familiar with Grumpy Cat, can you just give us a very quick description of who she is and maybe her rise to fame? Yeah. So Grumpy Cat is a adorably grumpy cat. And they've using it as a meme that way, right? Yeah, totally. So all the kids out in the meme world start throwing up different quotations and jokes on the pictures. You arranged a big appearance for Grumpy Cat recently. Tell us about that in Austin. Yeah, so I also help set up appearances and Grumpy Cat along with two of my other clients,

Gumbag Steve and Chris Torres, who created Nyan Cat. How did AQAP as we know it for him? Right. So this is a group that really has its roots in a prison break in Yemen and tell us a little bit more about him and some of the other more remarkable characters in the group. So Nasser Al-Wahashi is someone who left Yemen in the late 1990s. Tell us kind of what we've seen from them and who are the figures within AQAP who are kind of responsible for this reputation. Right. So the main bomb maker that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has is a Saudi national by the name of Ibrahim Asiri. How do you measure, how do you correlate human behavior to temperature? So in recent years, a variety of research groups have assembled really useful data sets. Is it just the temperature that could be forcing these changes? I mean, the temperature may have an effect on how much drinkable water there is around. Temperature may have an effect on how much food there is to eat in a given community.

Absolutely. So there are, in fact, many hypotheses. Is there a threshold where you really see your observable results more strongly? So it turns out that when we look at temperature, it actually looks as though the relationship is pretty continuous. Are there examples of the opposite, places that literally cool off when they cool off? So yes. So when we look at these sorts of relationships, what we're actually saying is that higher temperatures tend to be worse, cooler temperatures tend to be better. What exactly is conflict? So when we were trying to look at all different types of human conflict. What about the curiosity? The land a year ago, and as I recall, there was great excitement. Right. So this is pretty incredible. The rover is about the size of a car. Talk about its mission.

What is it there to accomplish? So this is a much bigger rover than the spirit and opportunity, which had gone there some years earlier. So what is it finding? So after they spent some time getting making sure the rover was working fine, they actually drove the wrong way. The rover is now on a mission to geographical feature called Mount Sharp. What's that all about? So there's this nice small wide crater called Gail Crater. So talk about what we're doing online to help breeders follow the mission. So NASA has been good and they send back all the pictures that Curiosity takes. So all you have to do is click on a day or soul and you'll find out what the rover accomplished on that day. Right. So there could be a short description of what the rover did on a particular day and then there's some images of day took on that day as well. But

Are you waiting? Do you swap out some? I won't complain, hurry up if I did it some of time. Well, I'm so happy that I can live for how I love to take a trip. I'm sorry, teacher, but, stipulate because it's longer time. It's time to head straight for the meals. It's time to live and have some tools. I'm long and have a ball of regular or regular. I'm so happy that I can live for how I love to take a trip. I'm so happy the This is Lesho, and every once in a while we do something a little different.

We open the phone lines to folks out there, do sort of a talk radio segment. But as the great folks in the talk radio business full-time know, you don't just open the phone lines. You sort of try to set the table for the conversation with a topic that might motivate people to join the conversation as we say in the radio business. So here's an interesting story that's just crossed the Lesho desk. An editor at ABC News by the name of Don, D-O-N-N-S, walked into his New York City office in May, wearing a black dress and a brunette wig and told his co-workers he's legally changing his name to Don, DAWN. A few months later, he's now revealed that he's had a two-day bout with transient global amnesia that's revealed to him that he's not actually transgender and he is now reverting to Don, D-O-N, and says he's probably a man, will be a man for the rest of his life.

Interesting, cute story with some topical quality to it, and so I'd like to know what you think. Give us a buzz, and let's take our first call right here right now. Hi, you're on the air. Hello, you're on the air. Oh, Harry, how are you? Can you guess who this is? Well, I'm your friend. God bless you. I could guess who it is. The readout here says caller number one. I prefer caller number fun. If you bondle up them on a Harry, how are you, my dear, dear, sweet spirit? Oh, I'm fine. I do recognize your voice. It sounds like about 1,000 people that I've heard over the years. Well, thank you very much, and you know, Harry, I think I'm your number one fan. Oh, thank you. Or the top five for sure, and anyway, you know, we've talked over the years. I was, this subject is very close to my heart and several other, my more vital organs. You were, you were a, you'd had more than one sex change as I recall.

Yes, indeed, Harry, that's why I'm calling because, and by the way, correct me if I, I know, I know dawn, but if I call him dawn because I know him so well, please correct me because I want to be respectful. Anyway, I know dawn for a long time. You mean dawn? Dawn. Thank you. Yeah. Don't put me for a while, because I want to get this out. Okay, sure. As you know, I was a woman, became a guy, became a woman again over the years, became a guy, didn't work out, some things, became a guy. What are you now? I am a woman again. I'm a Von De La Femme. He's spoken and gosh, I think it's been too long now. I became a guy again. Again? Yes, I did, Harry, and it was, it was a bit of a sweet time. My name, when I was a guy, eventually, it was Kip Glasscock. Kip Glasscock? Yes. Do you mind if I, because that, that, that glasscock, not your family name? No, my family name is Kip.

My parents were, shortened it from Kip Cuffinburg. That's a little bit off the subject, although maybe not. I don't know. No, that sounds like a whole other story. So why did you become a guy? I tell you, Harry, I became a guy because I, and this was crazy head thinking, you know, and I like to think of myself as pretty level headed. Yeah. But I became a guy because I just got fed up with the fact that men make more than women. Well. And when I became a guy, I realized that it isn't because they're men, and we were women, it was because taller people make more money. And as you know, I'm, oh, gee, I'm almost six five. Yeah, but you were six five as a woman, too, weren't you? I was. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. I, you know, you talk about Don. Is it Don or Don now? I forget. Now it's Don. Now it's Don. Thank you. And please, let me just finish. Yeah.

One thought. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I beat myself up and up about it. I don't really know. Not literally. No. But what happened when I became a guy when I was kicked last time, I fell in love with a man. And as you know, Harry, and I think you know better than anybody I call on the radio, I am not gay. Yeah. So he caused me a lot of, you know, consternation. Yeah. And you know, it's a lonely life, a gay lifestyle. And he was a married man. Really? You said married man. You fell in love with a married man. I did fall in love with a married man. But I'm ashamed of that because I'm a Catholic. That's a lonely life, whether you're gay or straight, isn't it? Yes. Yes. Good point. Thank you. And anyway, while I was a guy, and by the way, I don't know how much your audience wants to hear about what that is, but you know, it is, you know, going back and forth, I've learned a few things. I'll tell you what. I'm a walking obstacle, pity of this. You know, it takes three times longer to heal when you go from woman to man and it does from man to woman.

I had no idea. I don't know. But yes. That's kind of a fun fact. Yeah. Who do you go to to perform these surgeries? There's a little island off Guatemala and an oral surgeon kind of real estate guy there who does gorgeous work. You know, very, the word medical degree has been pumped up to something, you know, so like politically correct and also like such a, oh, I'm a doctor, oh, look at me, you know, but this guy has such amazing count. And he fortunately, I saved some tissue to become a guy, it was a honey, I had 1981, I saved some tissue, it was able to fashion, and entertainment center for me, if you can do what I mean. You won, you knew enough to save tissue from your hernia or were you just like, well, you know, I'm a hoarder, I'm a hoarder and I'll admit it. Yeah. It wasn't just a good, like, symbol or something. Yeah, good, like symbol and also I just can't throw anything away. Yeah.

So newspapers, hernia tissue, I have the landing on a moon newspaper, body kennedy guy, rest of soul, that newspaper, not what somebody was assassinated, just when he was nominated. I don't like that dark stuff. You didn't ask the doctor to fashion anything out of the newspaper. No, but I bet he could have, because he was a genius. Magician with a scalpel was he? He was a magician with a scalpel and anesthesia. Oh. Anyway, while I be, Harry, you know this about me, I think that I love weather, I always love weather. I have no idea. Oh, no. No, I knew you loved music. I love music and weather. Do you love music and weather together? I love music and weather and scrapbooking and crafts. Wow. Yeah. Anyway. Pretty well-rounded. Excuse me. I said pretty well-rounded and I'm thinking of your activities. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anyway, while I was recuperating from the operation, because when you go from woman to man, you gotta be careful.

You gotta sit with your legs up for about eight months. Wow. Because things could fall off and I don't want to be too graphic, but so while I was doing that. In the long line, I studied and got my degree in meteorology. And when I was fully healed, I was glorblessed me enough to get a job as a weatherman station out here in Hibbing, Minnesota. And I was kicked last. That's wonderful. I did a lot of car dealership openings and a lot of charity work for young people because that's the hope. That's giving back. You gotta get to those who have been given, those who have been given more is taken. I think as a friend. Much is... So, there came a time when you decided not to be Kip Glasscock, is that what you're saying? Yes. Excuse me, Harry. English mother. Yes, there did. And it had a lot to do with the fact that I just didn't feel comfortable as a gay, is what I think was a gay lifestyle. I didn't approve it. That's what I find in my judgment. But you decided to go back into search.

You go back to this island off the coast of... Well, what happened was this, Harry, it's very simple. It actually was almost a divine intervention. I was a storm chaser during the time. They sent me out, tornadoes, I mean, man. And I did it because when you're a journalist, as you well know, you do what you're told and I was caught in it. When you're in 100 mile an hour, wind storm, even if you're born a man, it's tough to hang on to your rig. Yeah. Long story short. Oh, no, you're not. You're not. Yes, I am saying it and I want to go, I want to be in person on the radio, but a $4,000 operation down the drain. Oh. And that's $4,000 American. Yeah, I understand. Okay. Yeah. Anyway, while I was recovering from that, which again is a shorter time, I realized, what am I doing? Well, you know, when you're a woman, come on. Get a hold of yourself.

I don't speak. Yeah. Anyway, I healed pretty rapidly because I just have that kind of constitution. Anyway, I just like Don. Don. Don. Don. Thank you. Yeah. I came into work after a long weekend and, you know, I was back to being a vandal of feminine. Should I have told people? Should I have warned them? Of course. I see that now, but, you know, I was a little nervous and I was wearing a wonderful boat neck. Look. I compared waist earrings that my beloved grandmother, who was like my mother, gave to me. Yeah. And I went on, but I was a little nervous. So I had it. A couple of Mark Tunis, a couple of Mark Tunis before I went on for the 6 a.m. broadcast. You were looking your best. I was looking my best. I was nervous. Was I a little tipsy? Okay. I was. And so I pointed the wrong place on the green screen. I made a couple of mistakes.

I said that we're going to be 100, 100, 100, 110 degrees, 90 percent humidity. It was February here. That's where I know. That was the giveaway. Not so much that I would have been at the class clock first day. Here we are. Monday. I'm a woman. Yeah. I finished the broadcast, went to the craft service table for my usual Danish and coffee light. And the producers come over and go get out of here. You're fired. Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. I mean, I. Or with a Danish. Or the Danish. Yeah. Thanks for cheering me up. My pleasure. I appreciate that. Yeah. No, I can. Anywho. Yeah. Long story short, I'm in very much the same predicament. It's done, who I knew because we're, you know, it's a pretty small community, the LVGA. Is it? That's the lady's professional golf. Same thing. Thank you. It's you.

Anyway, we would do a lot of same functions together. Excuse me. Uh-oh. Well, we would go to some of these, you know, transgender techniques together. Uh-huh. Go on. Don't thank you. Don now. His station wasn't too far from us. He would make Ambrosia. I would make, oh, a three-beam salad. And you have the secret of the three-beam salad, don't you? The third bean. Four beans. Oh. All right. That's a well-kept secret. Oh. I gave it away. I'm here. Maybe you'll cut that part out. I don't want to. We're alive. Now, you're still not a meteorologist, then. Are you? Oh, sure. That doesn't change. Although I can't get any work. And I've sort of lost my interest in weather. No. Which is the shortest part for me. Yeah. Fortunately, I still have scrapbooking. And I love to go to see their dogs run. What are you talking about? I don't mean that the racetrack is just any dog. Just running. Running. Yeah. Beautiful thing. I think dogs are God's little dumb angels. Really?

Mm-hmm. So now that you're a woman again. Yeah. And I mean, I didn't, again, I don't want a racetrack, but I became, you know, I really got out of the mail thing because, as I said, I'm not gay. And I guess I said that. Maybe I'm, you know, maybe I protest too much. Yeah. You're not still married, are you? Yeah, I am. But what happened to that relationship with the married man? Well, Mike's go off and that happens. He went back to his wife. Who now turns out with having an affair with a woman? So modern life is kind of complicated. You know, it is, it's rough out there for a temp and in a serial sex change person. Were you quoting a rapper there? I was. Yeah. Because I know you like show tunes. I had no idea you were into it. I love all, I love all, you know, there's only as Louis Armstrong, old Satchel Mouth said. There's only one kind of music.

And I wasn't, didn't really follow what else he said. Now, how did, I guess, I guess the question that anybody listening to your story is going to ask you, Yvonne, is some variant of what parents often ask their kids. Are you ever going to settle down by which I mean, you know, find the right person? No, no, commit to being one or the other. Oh, I'm definitely a gal now. You know, sometimes you have to go cover the waterfront and you have to kind of go a million miles and end up coming right back to the same place you started out, all the way started out as a guy. Yeah. So that doesn't really apply. So that doesn't apply, but you, you, you get my point. Kind of. Yeah. How much money, do you have any idea how much money you've spent on operations over the years as you've gone? Well, the way I'll tell you what, I don't like to think about it. Well, that one you told us about was $4,000 down the drain. So that was that last operation.

That was $4,000 American. Yeah. Like I said. Yeah. But anyway, I don't want to think about that. But when I think of what the good news is, a wonderful lawyer. Now, you know, what about litigious, litigious, litigious, litigious, um, but I saw no reason they should fire me just because I became a woman over a holiday weekend. Well, I think that the rate, the TV station and we're, we're, you know, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm not after making a lot of money and so much of it's going to go to charity. Really? Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Which one? We'll do warriors. Uh-huh. Um, did you, did you, did your lawyer say that maybe before filing suit as you were talking about it that maybe, uh, cooler heads might have prevailed had you, uh, not made the change over the over a long weekend, but maybe taking a couple of weeks off and then come in. Oh, sure. Take care of that, Harry. Take care of that. Take care of that. Take care of that.

No, no, no, I'm just saying. Huh? I'm sorry. Not blue sky. I'm sorry. Ha, ha, ha. You know, lawyers tend to be careful. I don't feel very well. I'm going to be very honest with you. Really? What's the matter? I'm sitting on one of those inflatable pillows thinking what happened to Tuesday, you know? I don't know what. It's been a depressing thing, but you know me. I don't stay depressed for long. No. Well, usually, usually music used to cheer you up. You used to feel performed. I'm getting back into my music and that's a wonderful thing and I know you don't do plugs on your show. No. But if I may just say, I'm going to be appearing at the hot box here in Hitting, which is a furniture store during the day, but tonight they serve hot cider and I'm going to do some of my Shirley Bassy tunes that I was doing when we first talked about 100 years ago. Yeah. You know, they serve, they serve cider in the summertime. Is it summertime? Yeah. But I haven't been out of this motel for, yeah, they serve cider all year round. They can't get a license to serve cool drinks.

It's not weird. That is so. Every city has its own crazy rules. Crazy rules. So. Crazy, no tense rules. Yeah. So you're now saying you're a woman and that's the end of the woman. Yeah. You know what happens, Harry? I'm the kind of person that I listened to the last person who was present in my year. Oh, yeah. I'm a little bit too, you know, you know, I don't have much centered all the time. And what provoked this was why don't you go back to being a woman, you know, the gentleman I was recording. Yeah. And this is before it went back to his wife and I said, okay, I will. Wow. I'm glad I did. Yeah. And then several other times, you know, it's like, you know, I tend to, well, I tend to idolize people a little too much and I listen to them a little too often. Yeah. Have you idolized, but I'll listen that off. I just don't know when you're on.

No, I don't either. But so you go back to the same doctor to perform these procedures or do you? Unfortunately, he was murdered. No. And the killer gentleman had nothing to do with his medical practice. Yeah. It was a domestic dispute with his stepson who was terrible alcoholic. Yeah. So I didn't go back to him. But I went back to his nurse who maybe didn't have the skills, but when you take, it's easy. As it says in a good book, it's easier to take away, to then to give us, if you know what I mean. So that wasn't such a difficult operation. Yeah. I mean, a monkey could do it really at this point with me. Well, and on that island, I'm sure they have plenty of those, right? Oh, there's lots of monkeys down that island. Yeah. If you had any advice to give to Don or Don at this point, what would it be? Because we have to, we were running out of time here. Oh, really?

It's gone. Boy, it feels like just a quick minute. That's how you are. You know, you have a way of just what you are, but you're so, so good. Oh, so good. Thank you. So maybe you'd like to answer the question. What happened to you? Have you been around? Yeah. I'm in England right now. Okay. I would say to Don, I'd say Don, when you finally land, and it sounds like you landed, because I totally understand that from that kind of amnesia, I've had that many times. Do you actually remember having had amnesia? It's one of the few things I do remember. No. Because I, my mind's a stiff, you know. Yeah. But I would say Don, be who you are. You know, it's a great number in Lakage. I am who I am. And I open with that. And then I get into the Shirley Bassey thing. And people out here don't know what that's a Shirley Bassey song or not. And I say this with love.

They're idiots here. They don't know. So, go tell them about who's that woman that was on that was in that Che Guevara play. Sally LaPone. Yeah. Sally LaPone. Yeah. Go tell them. My memory's a stiff. Yeah. You wouldn't open with that song, though, when you were doing the weather. No, no. I would just do the straight weather. And, well, you know, because people ask, you know, what's going on? It's such you when you live in that part of the country. Weather is the weather. What's it like where you are? It's nice. Oh, good for you. That's good. So, keep it that way. Yeah. Thank you. That's what I would say at the end of my broadcast. Because it's going to be a beautiful day. Keep it that way. That was my little hook. That was your little motto. Uh-huh. That was my hook. Well, you know what? It was a rainy day. I'd say make it a good day and keep it that way. Well, here's something that just bites my push. The person they got, the gentleman they got that replaced me, has taken my hook. No. Oh.

Yes. You know, you've been in show business for all your life. Yeah. You know, I didn't know what a rat race it was and what a cut for a business it was until that happened. Wow. Until then, I thought show business was great. Yeah. Well, as long as you have a lawyer for this, uh, other, this litigation with regard. From Bono, by the way. With regard to the firing. Yeah. Why doesn't he take on the, uh, the stealing of your catchphrase? Make it a two- Two- One thing at a time, you know, first, let us get the 500 million we're looking for or several, us pedal. Sure. Yeah. It isn't about the money for me. You're a reasonable gal. Oh, absolutely. I'm out to make a point. Yeah. And the 500 million is that's just a placeholder. By the way, I've been making potholders with the crafting. Really? Yeah. You want me to hold on and get your address and send you something? No, I'm fine.

I'm fine. We have plenty of money. Let me just hold on anyway for anything. No. No. All right. So, Evan, just wrapping up quickly, one might observe that, uh, that your advice that you dispense at the end of your forecast might be the motto you'd want to live the rest of your life with, you know? Absolutely, absolutely. And in other words, you're, you're now a woman. Keep it that way. There you go. See? And make it and make it and make yourself a good woman. Well, I'm not going to do that. Whether you're a woman or a man. I see. Make yourself a good woman. Yeah. Because you know what? We all have a feminine side. Yeah. And you're as is where? Why where should be my friend? Excellent. Evandela Femina. And it's great to be back. Good to talk to you. Thank you for calling. Thank you, Harry. I think we've used up the talk radio segment of our show, but, uh, no, but, uh, no better use. Hey. Oh, God bless you. Thanks again. Thank you. And just before we go, a note on secrecy, a letter drafted by the Obama administration,

specifically to inform Congress of the government's mass collection of Americans telephone communications data, was withheld from lawmakers by leaders of the House Intelligence Committee in the months before a key vote that affected the future of the program. This, according to pro-publica, Ronald White, who was an assistant attorney general at the time, said, making the material available to Congress would be an effective way to inform the legislative debate, but the House Intelligence Committee opted against making the document widely available. And representative Justin Amash, Republican of Michigan, said he and dozens of other members elected in 2010 did not have access to the information they needed to fully understand the program

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