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I'm Hugh Hewitt. The shutdown is underway. I'll update you on the Schumer shutdown with Senator John Cornyn and Dan Sullivan later in the program.

But I'm so pleased to begin today with Leland Vitterd. Leland is, of course, the host of on balance with Leland Vitterd over at News Nation.

But far more importantly, for the purposes of today, he's the author of this fabulous book, Born Lucky.

And Leland, welcome. Congratulations on this.

I haven't been this surprised or this moved in a long time than I was by Born Lucky.

And I bet I'm not alone in that.

Am I?

No, no, you are not.

We have sold out now on Amazon twice.

Barnes & Noble still has copies.

You can go to Amazon right now and put in your order for Born Lucky.

We're getting like a thousand books a day into Amazon and 20,000 arrive Wednesday of next week and then another 30,000 after that.

And we've hit this nerve, not because I'm anything special,

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