4.4.24 Billy's News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning. It is Friday, April fourth. Pretty warm as
you head out this morning, in the sixties, already twenty
three degrees warmer than it was at this time yesterday morning.
We should have some sun today, highs well into the sixties.
Cloudy and wet for the weekend, highs only in the forties,
but today's weather perfect for the Fenway opener. Today's Socks

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and the Cardinals first pitch at two to ten. Pregame
ceremonies will include members of the nineteen seventy five World
Series team and a tribute to former Sox pitcher Louis Tiant,
who passed back in October. The Socks, by the way
one last night they beat the Ools in Baltimore eight four.
They are three and four on the season. Now, Bruins
lost to the Canadians for to one. Celts will take

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on the Suns tonight. Other stories the Karen Reid retrial.
As many as ten jurors have been seated now, the
Reed team going all the way to the US Supreme
Court trying to have those two charges drop. And the
Tofts grand student arrested by federal agents recently for pro
Palestinian aggression finally got to speak yesterday through her lawyer.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I believe the world is a more beautiful and peaceful
place when we listen to each other and allow different
perspectives to be in the room.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Yeah, she's still being held at a detention center in Louisiana.
President Trump providing Harvard University with a list of demands
before he frees up billions in federal funds, ending all
DEI programs, using merit based hiring policies, and addressing anti
Semitism on the campus. Meantime, the President's tariffs taking their toll.

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The dialed yesterday plumiting close to seventeen one hundred points,
worst day since the pandemic, some calling it a tariff tailspin.
And this just in the cost of attending Wellesley College
over one hundred thousand dollars a year. Now it's new
music Friday. The new Insurance song Asi Zama is out today.
We are all over that about Chris Brown and bow

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Wow teaming up for a new single and the Naked
Gun reboot. The first trailer is out. We have these
and other stories coming up in the Entertainment Report at
six point forty March. Madness Women's Final four is today. UCLA,
South Carolina, Texas, yukon the men's Final four Tomorrow. Duke
will play Houston, Auburn will take on Florida, and we
play the double play flyaway. This morning. We'll announce the

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artist of the day at seven ten and Lisa Donovan
checks your Friday Drive next