Good morning, one and all and welcome to another episode here at the Downsport. Today is a Tuesday.

That used to be such a chaotic day here. You never knew who you were going to get in terms of

ghosts. And sometimes that's still the case. But more often than not, a special surprise that's

getting less surprising every week is awaiting you. Senator Nina Turner, Nina Turner, how's it going?

It's going well, John, glad to be here with you. And no more, I'm not a guest anymore, I'm famed.

That's true, that's true. Okay, and we love to have you here. If it wasn't clear, I'm excited.

And I'm excited to talk about some of the stories we have. I do want to apologize in advance as I do

for most shows. You're a really good person. And so my, I don't want to do this to you with the news,

but some of it's American political news, not going to be fun. So sorry about that.

That's okay. We will, we will. Me and you and thankfully a lot of you already in the chat on

Twitch and YouTube and the members and everything. So thank you everybody for being here.

Love to have you here. We'd love you marginally more if you hit the like button and share the stream.

So if you want that, if you're going for that maximal level of love for me, that would be a great

thing to do. And if you have any comments, tweets, super chats, questions, anything like that as we go

through the next 90 minutes of news, feel free to send it to us and we'll respond during our breaks.

Also, little heads up that to close out the show, we're going to be doing another meanwhile in.

And I swear we're not trying to do this, but more often than not, our meanwhile ends up

about animals lately. So we've got lava dogs and cocaine hippos. I swear it's legitimate news.

We're going to be discussing it later on. If you want to know what those mean, it's not just

my bar trivia team name, although it's also that. Anyway, with that, Nina Turner,

you ready to talk about some news? Not about lava dogs? Let's do it.

Okay, unfortunately it's going to be a bit of a difficult transition from the jokingness,

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