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Issues And Ideas With Chris DeBello January 11 2026

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Chris DiBello says the Minneapolis audio showed Renee Nicole Good being killed by ICE officer Jonathan Ross.

1. Issues & Ideas with Chris DiBello begins with the Minneapolis shooting of Renee Nicole Good and the dispute over how ICE officer Jonathan Ross’s actions were described. 2. Chris DiBello frames the episode around political response, public anger, and the contrast between video and statements from Kristi Noem and Donald Trump. 3. The episode asks what happens when official accounts, public reaction, and competing narratives collide around one fatal police shooting. 4. DiBello says Renee Nicole Good had just dropped off one of her children at school and was driving in Minneapolis when ICE officers were present. 5. He says Good had recently moved to Minnesota, which explains why her vehicle still had out-of-state plates. 6. He identifies Good as gay, a mother of three, and someone with a background in creative writing, podcasting, and real estate-related work. 7. He also cites testimony from Good’s father, mother, former neighbor, Minneapolis City Council, and Minnesota Representative Ellen Omar about her life and presence at the scene. 8. The first health segment shifts to the 2026 flu season and Dr. Holly Lucille, a licensed naturopathic doctor, educator, media host, and host of Mindful Medicine. 9. Lucille says the flu has hit harder because people are more depleted by chronic stress, poor sleep, indoor time, and inflammation. 10. She uses guacamole turning brown as a visual for oxidative stress and says vitamin C acts as an antioxidant against that cellular “rust.” 11. Lucille describes Immunage as a fermented papaya bioactivator rather than a pill and says it has more than 30 clinical studies. 12. She says the goal is to reduce severity and duration if someone gets a virus, while keeping sleep, hydration, and movement as the foundation. 13. The vaccine segment features Dr. Robert Steinberg, Health Research Group Director at Public Citizen, speaking about changes to childhood immunization guidance. 14. Steinberg says the CDC schedule moved from vaccines against 17 diseases to recommendations for 11, with some remaining shots shifted into shared decision-making. 15. He says hepatitis B is one of the most noteworthy changes because the birth dose was previously recommended for all newborns. 16. Steinberg says RFK Jr. fired the advisory committee, the CDC was bypassed, and political appointees pushed the changes without full career-expert review. 17. He says the schedule is now a three-tier structure and warns the result could be lower vaccination rates and more preventable illness over time. 18. Jason Isaac of the American Energy Institute discusses Venezuela as a source of heavier crude for Gulf refineries and as a site of Chinese mineral investment. 19. The episode mixes accusatory monologue, interview-based health guidance, and policy analysis, with DiBello using a forceful, conversational style throughout. 20. People following vaccine policy, energy markets, or public-health debates will get the most from it; listeners wanting a neutral, low-opinion briefing may skip it.

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A grim opening, then a detail-heavy turn into vaccine policy.

Chris DiBello opens this Issues and Ideas hour with a hard-edged account of the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, and the first stretch stays close to the facts already on the table: Good had just dropped off one of her kids at school, was driving on the street where…

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A furious opening and a sober vaccine-policy turn.

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