Let's start with some news out of DC
and all of our respective calendars.
Today is a palindrome day.
Which means the numbers are the same
even if you flip them backwards.
But it's not just any palindrome day,
it is a DC centric palindrome day.
Since the area Code 202 is
featured not once but twice.
Ah nerds and conspiracy theorists rejoice.
This is a day for all of us.
The universe has aligned and decided
that it wants some Ben's chili bowl.
Today is, by the way, not just a palindrome,
but it's also an ambigram,
which means the numbers are also the same.
Flipped upside down? Yes,
we're getting a double dose of geek today.
Numerology out here showing
off and showing out now.
If you haven't played Lotto, hurry up
and hit the nearest corner store now.
The number gods are shining
on the whole city.
It is the perfect time to make a
financial decision with very poor odds.
My personal choice gambet DC 'cause
nobody got worse odds than them.
The Wizards are favored by four and a
half points over the calves tomorrow.
Yet no matter which side the bet you on,
you lose money.
I don't.
I don't know how that happens,
but thanks to gambet DC and thanks
to the university numerology,
I chose this next story from Prince
Georges County because sadly it's
a familiar one here in the DMV
residents and community activists in
the 84% Latino community of Langley
Park are concerned that a sweeping
reform of Prince Georges County
zoning laws and construction of a
new Purple Line metro station will
displace vulnerable residents and
eliminate affordable housing options.
And in aging apartment
complexes like Bedford Station,
right next to the rail route,
fear that the Purple Line will mean
redevelopment in higher rents.
Please help us keep living in this area.
This was some of the public testimony.
Is Prince Georges County leaders considered
a sweeping zoning reform package?
Gentrification in the DC law?
That is impossible, yeah,
we've seen this before and we
know exactly where it's headed.
Denny Tavares is Prince Georges
County Council member here,
who says the zoning change also comes
with new protections that give the
county the first right to buy affordable
units that come on the market.
The developer must come to the
table and have a conversation
with the community and have a pre
development meeting that it's huge.
That's never happened.
So lower income residents and immigrants
get to have a meeting with developers
and trust them and politicians to put
their interests before profits got it.
Go on and pee on people's heads
and tell them that it's raining.
En espagnol ordenar unlock cabeza de
Las personas PP I love Langley park.
I will choose Peruvian chicken spots over
corporate greed any day of the week.
PPI, just like saying that finally we're
taking a field trip to Nova Scotia,
Canada for the last story,
a recently unveiled talking Christmas tree
in a Canadian shopping mall has both amused.
And horrified people on social media.
After a 15 year hiatus.
What are you the talking tree is back at
the Micmac Mall in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Depicted as the nightmare before
Christmas by 1 cartoonist hug.
Kill it with fire, someone tweeted.
Kill it with fire.
This street looks like what would
happen if the squid game doll and
the puppet from saw had a baby.
Happy holidays. Do you wanna play a game?
This is nightmare fuel.
I gotta feel bad for the little Canadian
kids who see that thing and tell their
parents I'm scared they were gonna
pray for those kids and the inevitable
therapy sessions in their future.
Be strong you little Canucks you'll
get through this, you hosers.