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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 here's Armstrong and Getty.

Live from Studio C.

See, Signor.

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

And hey, y'all, Friday.

Headed into one of the final summer weekends before school starts.

And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager.

Trump, Putin, Netanyahu.

We're at pivot points in a couple of major conflicts and or

volatile parts of the world.

Yeah, I'd say.

Feels like it's all going to turn into something in both of those regions, both Europe and the Middle East.

I was just thinking myself as I walked in the studio.

I think sometimes what I'm mostly interested lines up with what I think listeners are probably interested in, but sometimes not.

And on this one, like, I don't have any idea how into the whole Russia, Ukraine y'all are.

I'm, that's, to me, the most interesting thing today, is Trump going to stick with his punishing Russia through sanctions because they didn't meet his deadline?

Or is he going to, in my opinion, fall for another bogus delay

and put it off until the talks, and then the talks will claim something, and it'll get put off

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