From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Yeah, Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty show.

So as I'm going to run through the big stories of the day, I think they'd be Kirsten's cinema.

Formerly Democratic Senator from Arizona said she's down independent because the parties are too polarized for her.

Well, I don't know. I think the headline there is she's bisexual, right?

She can't decide man or woman.

She wasn't Democrat. Now she's a Republican or an independent. Maybe she's just indecisive.

That's our headline. Good day.

So that's one of them. Certainly the Brittany Griner return and controversy is huge.

Man, I had people bring that up in real life more than...

I would say it's in the very, very top tier of news stories that people brought up to me in my real life.

And what manner did they bring it up?

Disapprovingly.

Almost 100% actually know that I think about it.

Yeah, my sense from taking in a lot of punditry on a variety of sources is that even your lefty sources really went pretty far and saying,

many people are troubled by the lack of equality between a basketball player and a terrorist.

I mean, the Washington Post, NBC News, all kinds of different outlets that are always pretty Biden friendly were definitely pointing out the...

Many of... feel this will encourage rogue nations to snatch more Americans feeling like they can get much in return.

Yes. Yes, that is true.

Well, we famously claim up and down to never negotiate with terrorists.

But if you have a terrorist state, essentially, that's kidnapping people for prisoner exchanges, won't we negotiate with the Russians?

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