This football season, Americans want to watch sports, not Big Pharma ads.

But this fall, pharma companies spent millions on advertisements pushing their products.

What's worse?

Big Pharma increased spending even as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle tried to stop their misleading ads.

Enough is enough.

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Today on the Playbook podcast, Donald Trump is hosting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House.

But all the attention is going to be on other big world affairs, Gaza, Ukraine and Latin America.

And it's day 20 of the government shutdown.

Is Donald Trump ever going to end this thing?

Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Monday, October 20th. And this is the Playbook podcast. Dasha, have you had a lovely weekend? I actually had a very lovely weekend. I did basically nothing. Yes. I read my book. Oh, my goodness. I went on walks with my husband. A book that has nothing to do with the news, by the way. Total fiction. It was a dream. We're in countdown mode till we get our puppy two weekends from now. No, you're kidding. So we're enjoying our freedom while we can. A playbook puppy. This is very exciting news. Oh, my goodness. This puppy is clearly

going to feature the newsletters every day. I can already tell. Oh, yeah, I'm going to have stories to end with every day. Well, I spent Sunday at my first ever fall festival at the local elementary school. It was quite something. I needed a little lie down afterwards, but it was pretty good fun. That means he did it right.

But never mind.

Let's talk about politics.

Anthony Albanese is his first trip to the White House. lie down afterwards, but it was pretty good fun. That means he did it right. But never mind.

Let's talk about politics. Anthony Albanese is his first trip to the White House since Donald Trump returned as president. But here's the thing, right? It's a big deal for the Australian

PM to be here. We'll see the usual setup this morning when they're in the Oval Office together.

But it's kind of awkward because everyone wants

to talk about foreign affairs today, but they don't really want to talk about Australia at all.

There's so much going on in foreign affairs world because of the way Donald Trump has inserted

himself into so many big stories. And those are the things he's going to get asked about today.

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