Straight Shooter with Stephen A.

Welcome to the ladies edition of Straight Shooter,

with yours truly, Stephen A.

Coming at you, as I love to do every Wednesday night from 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time over the airwaves of SiriusXM Radio.

Potus Channel 124. The number to call up as always is 866 967 6887. That's 866 967 6887. 866.

866. 96. Podus to simplify it. Thank you for joining me. This is the fourth edition

of Straight Shooter with Stephen A. Can't tell you how honored and privilege I am to have you as listeners

and everything. I really, really appreciate the support. Thank you so much. I'm not in a very good mood.

And I'm quite sure that I speak on behalf of millions of Americans when I tell you

most of us shouldn't be in a good move. I'm not going to use words like Pissed off and all of that

other stuff because I do have Akeem Jeffries, House Democratic Leader, coming on the show in just a few

minutes. And I want to watch my language and I want to be cool

and calm and compose, but I'm disgusted.

I'm a little bit different than the Michael Smirk Connoisse's of the world and Chris

Cuomo's of the world and the Sean Hannity's and others, all of whom I know, respect, et cetera, because they live in this

lane. I'm just an American citizen just like you, paying attention to what's going on,

being a conscientious observer, reading the newspaper, watching the news, and trying not to get

flustered and completely utterly disgusted at what we're seeing here, but it's day eight of this government shutdown.

Hundreds of thousands of people have either been or will be furloughed, if not flat out fired.

They'll lose their jobs. They'll lose the ability to pay their bills. And for what exactly? Because folks on Capitol Hill can't come to some kind of a court

and get their act together. And me personally, I not only look at it, I'm not trying to play the

blame game here because

...