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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now he's Armstrong and getting.

You know, our Monday opening with that junior high band struggling to perform their song

is a good feeling for a Monday.

It's a good, kind of know what we're supposed to do, kind of struggling to get our act together.

I was going to say the theme to me is struggling against your own incompetence.

Kind of a should have practiced more over the weekend.

It's a good tone, really.

It's an appropriate tone.

From Studio C.

See, Senior.

A dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty.

Communications compound and hey y'all to kick off a brand new week.

We're under the tutelage of our general manager.

Gene Shaheen, compromise and machine.

Who's that?

That's kind of a stretch.

One of the Democrats that's come around in the Senate and said, yeah, this is stupid. Can we please end this

idiotic shutdown? So eight

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