A Lame Duck or a Rubber Chicken 🦆

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🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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💸 Find out why NBA champion Caron Butler plays board games with his kids to teach them about money 🤕 Get to the bottom of why everyone is worried about your head when you play sports and what exactly is a concussion (with correspondent Kenny Curtis) 🦆 Why is Donald Trump being called a "lame duck" president? 🙌🏽 Learn today’s Fun Fact about the Florida Marlins making "herstory"! 🌳 Guess the answer to the Trivia Question of the Day: what caused the extinction of the Graves Beach Plum Tree? 💸 Check out the board game Caron Butler plays with this family to learn financial literacy and more: In Home Banking Board Game 🤕 Read more facts about Sports and Concussions 🦆 Explore Where Did the Term Lame Duck Originate? 📡 Check out correspondent Kenny Curtis' amazing (and sometimes wacky) show on SiriusXM: Kids Place Live 💌 We love email! Send us your stories, your trivia, your tired, your poor, your huddled masses: [email protected] 📲 The Ten News website has stuff you can't get on the podcast: TheTenNews.com Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	How does former NBA All-Star Karam Butler play Monopoly?
0:05.7	Why is everyone so concerned about your noggin during sports?
0:09.3	And what exactly is a lame duck?
0:13.0	I'm Bethany Van Delft, and we'll get to all this and more on today's The 10 News.
0:17.9	The showware and the time it takes to pass go and collect $200, we find out
0:23.0	what's up in the world.
0:26.3	Okay, let's get into the 10 News.
0:28.9	10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 0, 1.
0:36.7	I bet you've heard the expression lame duck used recently.
0:40.7	It may sound strange, but our correspondent Pamela Kirkland can explain.
0:46.4	President Trump still hasn't conceded the election to President-elect Joe Biden,
0:52.3	which, if you listen to last week's episode, you know, means he hasn't said he knows that he lost the presidential election and the transition to a new president has started.
1:02.7	Really?
1:03.6	But whether he concedes or not, what happens next is the president enters a period where he's referred to as a lame duck.
1:12.4	It's a weird thing to call someone, I know.
1:15.3	So what is a lame duck president?
1:19.3	I think it's a duck that somehow got in the government.
1:22.9	That's really lame.
1:24.8	Maybe when something's like not true.
1:28.9	Um, duck session.
1:30.8	Sadly, it has nothing to do with those cute, quacky little birds.
1:35.6	And actually, any politician can be called a lame duck, not just the president.
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