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Good afternoon, everybody, on this Tuesday, September 16th, 2025. I got all of your stories for your rush hour ride home. We'll be talking about

Luigi Mangione. A judge has dropped several of the biggest charges against him in his alleged

plot against health care CEO. Big, big, big, big story. This is going to be shaking up the news.

And also Charlie Kirk, all of the

updates regarding the Department of Justice saying they'll be coming after people and employers

for certain reasons. You're not going to believe why. And then Cash Patel in the hot seat

over Epstein resulting in a big clash, fights with different senators. We'll get into that.

I mean, it's an absolute mess out there. But let's start things off with Fire Fest. Oh, excuse me,

no, let's start things off with TikTok. It was set to be banned this week. Trump says they've worked

out another deal. Well, we have a deal on TikTok. I've reached a deal with China. I'm going to speak

to President Xi on Friday to confirm everything up. We made a very good trade deal and I hope good

for both countries, but a very different deal than they made in the past. All right. I'm waiting

with baited breath as to what the deal will be that they made with China revolving

around trade and social media app TikTok. I have no idea. I won't speculate, but we'll have to,

what if the deal is you have to watch Donald Trump's TikToks before you watch other ones?

You know, when you get ads at the beginning of a video, it's just him. It's like, you can be a part

of this app, but you have to listen to what I have to say. Firefest, speaking of things we don't want to attend, Firefest is in the news. We've got a new owner. It's not Ryan Reynolds. I guess the rumor was that Ryan Reynolds was going to buy Firefest. Why not? The guy's rich. Go buy it. Uh, see if it can crash and burn the way your wife has.

Fire Festival is ready for its next chapter. The infamous music festival has been acquired by

LimeWire, eight years after its initial chaotic launch. Can you believe it's been eight years?

That's absolutely crazy. Reps for LimeWire, tell TMZ the software company has acquired the Fire Festival brand

with the purpose of launching a whole new project under this collaboration. The acquisition came about

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