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Stewart Ledbetter hosted Matt Gerien of News Channel 5, the Freep’s Terri Hallenbeck, and VDB, and we kicked around what needed kicking: the Governor’s budget address, the Inauguration, to tax or not to tax, etc. An excellent backdrop to your Lean Cuisine dinner this evening, if you can stomach talk of layoffs and Purple Tunnels of Doom. Good wholesome fun for the whole family, yes sir.