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It's the show featuring Go Go Go The Chimp.

Nothing like a chimp to liven up the radio show.

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Folks, I warned you that if you stuck around for hour two, bad things would happen.

I warned you that I would bring Kevin McCullough on the show.

Now, if you'd been really bad, I would bring on John Zmirak, but things don't rise to that level. as punishment I bring on my friend some call him both Stradamus I call him Kevin Kevin welcome I don't know that I'm

comfortable being the lesser of the oh no no no no you're your your sm no, you're... Zmirak. Your... Zmirak is Mount Everest, and it's like, whatever, whatever. I don't care if you're, you know, 28,000 feet into the sky. There's... Zmirak is the Krakhan, effectively. He's the Krakhan. When you release the Krakken on the show, you release the Zmirak. But no, you, listen, you, you prognosticate on, on, well, on things political.

We talk about current events on this show.

Of course, I'm joking because it's a joy to have you on and to talk to you about what is happening.

Even if bad things are happening, it's a joy to talk to you about them because you help us to make sense of them from a common sense, reality-based, biblical perspective.

So what's on your mind right now?

We're going through a lot.

So where shall we start?

Yeah. Well, so many world events over the weekend, the attempted mutiny that some are saying wasn't one in Russia, etc.

But kind of close to home here is where my thoughts and heart were yesterday. And let me give you two competing scenarios. In New York, you have the

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