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Welcome to the Hugh Hewitt Show.

I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter.

You may know me from such resume entries as retired

United States Army Infantry Colonel, 30-year Los Angeles trial lawyer, senior columnist at

townhall.com. You should read me every Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I am also the author

of a number of books, including the Kelly Turnbull series of People's Republic Conservative Action novels.

The most recent is Panama Red and some other ones, the American Apocalypse and The Attack, which talks about terrorist attack following a involving Iran.

So maybe it's getting, you know, a little edgy. And also, of course, Los Angeles,

Silver Bullets on the Sunset Strip, which I wrote with my wife, Arena. It's a lot of fun. You should check

them all out on Amazon. So I love guest hosting for Hugh Hewitt on days like this, because

we've got so much stuff going on.

We've got the State of the Union coming up.

And you know we're going to be talking about that.

And we've got some great guests to do that with, including Michael Duncan of Ruthless.

And we've got Byron Yorkel show up.

Michael Watley, who was the chairman of the RNC for a while.

Now he's a North Carolina Senate candidate. We've got some great folks.

We've got hockey, which, look, I'm from California, man. I'm not a hockey guy.

But how can you not love the guy with the tooth knocked out? He's all happy. He's holding the American flag.

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