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

Yeah, Armstrong and Joe Ketti.

The Armstrong and Getty Show.

How you doing?

Maybe the biggest headline of the day, OPEC, got together and decided to cut back on production by about 2 million barrels per day.

Gonna drive up oil prices, which is gonna drive up gas prices with less than five weeks go to an election.

Gas is already headed the wrong direction.

So we'll see how that plays.

Spicy times indeed.

And to discuss the news of the day and the state of the nation, please welcome Chris Stierwalt.

Writer for the dispatch newsletter, Stierwalt isms as a commas terrific.

He's a senior fellow with the American Enterprise Institute.

And he is the author of a fabulous sounding book, Broken News,

why the media rage machine divides American how to fight back.

Chris, how are you?

I like that my book is fabulous sounding.

I think that's really, I'm happy in the space of being fabulous sounding.

And I also want to say how great it is to talk to Californians

who understand how shattered and broken California's referendum and recall system is

and how that's different than what we're supposed to do in this country.

So I'm very happy to be with you.

Well, the idiotic bullet train is indictment enough for anybody to end the system immediately.

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