Straight Shooter with Stephen A.

What's up everybody?

Welcome to the latest edition of the straight shooter with yours,

Truly, the one and only Stephen A. Smith coming at you right here over the airwaves

of Sirius XM, PodOTUS Radio, Channel 124.

You know, I love coming to y'all.

You know, I got a lot of stuff to talk about today.

It appears that we are ending the government shutdown, 43 days, 43 nights, American citizens working for the feds were not receiving a check.

43 days, the longest government shut down in United States history.

The longest before this was 2018 and the 2019 under then President Donald Trump in his first term.

Needless to say, the now longest shutdown was also with Donald Trump in office as the

president of the United States, 45 and now 47.

We can look at it any way we want to.

And we got a lot of stuff to get into.

And don't you worry, I'm going to get into these damn Epstein files in just a second.

We can look at it in any way we want to. We can slice it any way we want to. And put the number up on the screen, please, so I can see it for calling the POTUS radio right here, straight shooter with Stephen A. Smith. listen, when you look at what has transpired,

it's pretty damn annoying, to say the least. You just find yourself wondering what the hell is going on. I'm still disgusted because there's no excuse for this. Now, I don't know about anybody else and everybody's talking about, you know what, pick a side, pick a side. Damn, y'all, shut the hell up. I'll pick whatever side I want to pick. It's not about a side in this particular instance.

It's about government officials in the White House, in Congress, on the Senate,

that didn't come together to get a deal done for 43 days and nights.

We've had Speaker Mike Johnson on this show.

We've had Representative Jim Jordan on this show.

We've had elected officials like Akeem Jeffries, the Democratic House Speaker. We've had them all on this show and everybody's

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