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This is the Tom Hartman program.

Welcome to the program, the Tom Hartman program, your program.

My name's Jeff Smith.

Tom is in the thick.

Tom is in the middle like Malcolm and a triple cheeseburger and a learned man recovering from

back surgery and thanks to your kindness and feelty he's able to take some deserved rest.

So let's have a great show today, let us be unafraid and though our scrolls maybe charge with

punishments, our heads will be unbound. This is your show. If you've never called in, maybe today

is the day you do. Maybe the day is when you emit your barbaric yelp, when the power of the

human voice, someone's within you and you say, I am here week or strong or both, I am here

and thank you for being here. What do we need to work through? What are people working through that

we should give them some love for? What should people not have to work through without some help

to the degree they are now? What are barriers being placed now to working through stuff?

Some news to open the show. Jerry Nadler beat Carol Maloney in the battle, rare battle of two

incumbents, right, to upper Manhattan members of Congress who got redistricted through a nonpartisan

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