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haven't already. We got a great show prepared for you guys today. I think we saw what I kind of

view as an audition for maybe president, uh, 2028s, or at least the nominee for the Republican Party.

We had J.D. Vance at a turning point USA event yesterday.

All the clips have kind of circulated at this point. It was two days ago. Two days ago, yeah. The clips circulated yesterday, but it was two days ago. And so now we've had a time to kind of sit with them. I want to bring some of the ones that stuck out to us and see how we handled kind of unfettered Q and A.

And then Kamala Harris had her own version for what maybe she is speaking to the youth about.

The second one we have is Arctic Frost. And Josh actually

bugged me Wednesdays like, why are we not talking about this? This is such a big scandal. I've now

gone through it. It really is shocking. The scope of people are calling it the watergate of the Biden

administration, but maybe times 10. It was a really, really shocking power grab from the FBI under the Biden administration. And I'm getting into all the details. It's a little technical, but I want to walk everyone through it. And I'm happy to announce I'm going to be interviewing Rachel Beauvard, who is actually, she actually was a target of this probe, which is crazy. And she's fantastic. So I'm interviewing this afternoon. That's going to be coming out later. That's going to be awesome. I can't watch to do that. She's an American hero. I love it. I completely agree. So, and if you want more, Erica, we did do an episode of the Deep. That was really fun called The Great Feminization. Eric had a great tape on it. thanks and And people were saying nice haircut. Thank you. But before we get into the episode, I'm not. Josh, also, before we get to the sponsor today, are you a Halloween guy? I'm more in the Bah, humble category of it. Well, that's kind of you in general. Yeah. I mean, you get this far up north and it's just, it's dark, it's cold, kids are grumpy, you know, well, actually, I'm grumpy. Kids are happy and they're topped up on sugar and then, you know, it's just, I don't keep that happy by sending me butterfinger bars and maybe it would be all right. But you don't have any... Is there like religious, you know, some Catholics I feel like are kind of like, oh, this is a problem? Isn't it? It's all-halo's Eve, not to do a catechism. It's not. It's not bad inherently, right? No, of course not. I mean, you know, the tradition here was to celebrate all hallows or all Holy Eve. you know, the idea is the next day is all Saints Day. The day after that's All Souls Day.

So... worried all Hallows or all Holy Eve. You know, the idea is the next day is all Saints Day.

The day after that's all Souls Day.

So, you know, at the Catholic High School, my kids go to, it's like, you can dress up for

Halloween today.

You don't have to wear your uniforms, but you have to come in something relating to the faith.

And so my son showed up as the soldier that had pierced Christ, but then later became, you know, Catholic and realized. Oh, interesting. So he was all dressed up in his garb and then, you know. That's actually sick. I've never heard of that costume. Yeah. So, I mean, he was getting his tunic. I mean, he was up until midnight. I'm like, brother, go to bed.

Yeah, to have it perfect. So.

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