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Mass Corruption Volume 2, The Texts and More, the continuing scandals of the Karen Reed Frameup. Save $5 when you pre-order at howiecarshow.com, click store. Warning, this book contains explicit adult themes such as extremely racist and misogynist communications between members of law enforcement. Pre-order now at howiecarshow.com, click store. Better strap yourself in. It's time for the Howie Car Show. It's a happy day. My heart feels like an alligator. Howie Car, Boston hero colonists, and radio hit me. The public will be truly amazed by that. Howie is sort of an insidious force in this area. It comes from the tabloid talk show stuff in Boston, and it was concocted there. Live from the Burnah Less Lethal Pistol Studio. It is a special pleasure for me to introduce Howie Car. Tom Chaddock in for Howie Car, wrapping up a full week, a great week. I've had a great week. It's not a great week for you because you don't get a Howie. It's a great week for me, although it's a better week next week because then I can listen to Howie, and it's been too long. Howie Car Mass Corruption, Volume 2 is out. It is here. Volume 2, Mass Corruption, the text and more. Here it is on camera here. It looks like. Go to Howiecar Show.com. Hit shop. Top of the top there. You can buy it. Get five bucks off right now. Five bucks off right now. Why not save five bucks? All right. It is always a pleasure to talk to Michael Graham of New Hampshire Journal and InsideSources.com. He's got an empire of publications out there. Once again, these are the people, the real reporting going on because in New Hampshire, as with Massachusetts and Maine, there are just a handful of people doing real reporting. And Michael is one of those handful of people. Michael, thank you for joining us. How's it going? You know, I always thought so highly of Howie, you know, just a great guy. And then he inflicts you. on his listeners. I mean, what the heck? I mean, geez, Louise. Well, you know. How he's scraping the bottom. What the heck is going on? I assume he didn't go straight to the bottom. I assume he went through. They tried hundreds of people. You got to check your messages. By the way. Yeah. Earlier this week, my lovely bride Buttercup had a gathering with some of her friends from. high school, you went to high school in Rhode Island, and they were doing this big, like, chicks, you know, hang out thing. So I was stuck in downtown Boston, and who did I run into at Avid Lewis, but our old friend Dave Handelman? Oh, wow. He says hello, by the way. Is Dave allowed? Of course, Phantom Gourmet. Yeah. And he, and he, we both remember you without any fondest whatsoever. Well, I have fondness for him. I told him he's like, you know, what you want to know what homeless shelter you're living here? I said, no, dude, he's got a wife and everything.

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stunned. If you saw the state of my house, a homeless shelter would be an absolute upgrade, I assure you. All I've got to say about Mrs. Shattuck is the world's greatest beard man. No other woman would put up with it. I thought you meant my physical beard. You're suggesting that I am Tim Walz. People know what beard means, yes. Okay. They're smarter than you, and they're obviously smarter than Howie, because if Howie were smarter, you would not be in that chair. Well, Karoline Leavitt, by the way, is returning to New Hampshire, which means she's in striking distance of doing fill-in for Howie, which means I assume this is it for me, and rightfully so. I assume so, too. So let me ask you something. Let me ask. I have some kind of summertime crud bug. My apologies to the listeners. You guys deserve better. But again, these are better than Shattuck. It is. You know, now the voice, much like the behavior, matches Harvey Firestein. So this is perfect. It is not, it is, it works for me. I got my, I got my very white voice going on. Hey, by the way, speaking of our good friend Karoline Leavitt. Yeah. She, I shared a story, and I'm on Twitter at IMM Graham. By the way, any listeners should have a second. A few months ago, somebody stole my Twitter account. I didn't know you could do this. They didn't hack it like posting stuff or whatever. They actually took it over and gave it like a different name. took control of it. And so I was able to wrestle my handle back, IMM Graham, from my, you know, WTKK days, I am Michael Graham. But I could not get my followers or my content back for like 30,000 followers. They're all gone. And so I tweeted up. But the reason I mention that is if you go there, IMM Graham on Twitter. You'll see a tweet I posted when she announced that she was leaving the White House. I was at the White House briefing earlier this year, and she was mid-pregnant. We knew she was pregnant, whatever point that was. And she's up on the podium. And she is just owning the press. I'm sitting there. I've never been in the White House briefing before. I'm on the front row because I'm in the special, like, new media chair, you know, whatever they call it. And so I can see her and I can see the faces of the reporters. And she is driving them crazy. because she's smiling and she controls it, and they're throwing heat at her, and she's just deflecting. Everything is great. And she's dancing around them. And then I notice something only because my lovely bride buttercup has trained me to notice. I look down, and if you go to the Twitter, you can see it, I took a photo of her shoes. She's wearing these ridiculously upscale, you know, tiny little heel, tall.

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Like you and I, Shattuck, we couldn't walk across a room in them, and she's working the press, not even thinking about it in these ridiculous shoes. How can you be that together? She's having to balance herself, take these, you know, fireballs and keep a smile. And no, she doesn't have the Corrine Jean-Pierre, you know, notebook where she has to look up. Question about, you know, the President Biden, B, B, B, B, Biden, who's Joe Biden? Just nothing. No notes, no nothing, just kill it. I am starting to question my sexuality here. Can we move off of shoes, shoe reviews? I feel like Isaac Mizrahi. Go ahead. For reasons, for reasons that you'll understand that tweet literally got 1.3 million impressions. They're really. I exaggerating. Wow. She's been very generous to New Hampshire Journal. I'm the first journalist to interview her as a candidate for Congress when she ran for Congress in New Hampshire back in 2022. Wow. Yeah. She was nobody. She was like a staff staffer for release, Elise Stefanik. Well, let me give back to something you said a moment ago. You had mentioned Dave Andleman. And remember Dave Handelman in 2021 had to go away for a while. He had to go away. He had to go away because he went on social media and said that maybe we should stop doing all the looting in the wake of George Floyd. And because the time was the time. that he was made to go away. So, come on, Shaddock, that was woke one. That's right. So that's what, that's why I'm asking you this. We're going to vote to electric boogaloo. Yes, that's why I'm asking. So now, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has rebranded herself. She is, by some, reports, the frontrunner for the Democrats for president in 2028. She looks different. She's acting different. She got rid of the metrosexual boyfriend. And the rebrand is underway. Is she a real threat? Well, I don't know what you might threat. I mean, is she real potential presidential candidate? Can she win the Democratic nomination? The University of New Hampshire poll a few weeks, even though they're polling is largely bogus, had her at the top of the list. She was up there with Pete Buttigieg. So, yeah, absolutely. And, well, I mean, why not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? I mean, why not? Well, the problem is this, is that she doesn't know anything. And I understand that that doesn't mean so much because... I'm sorry, I'm still waiting for it, and why not?

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Well, because how is she going to impress upon people that she is competent to do something? Because she hasn't, she's been a bartender, which is something. So now you've said knowledge and confidence. So I'm still waiting to get to the part that's relevant to running for the President of the United States. Dude. Well, have we had five states of becoming President of the United States. What are you talking about? Well, we haven't had a her yet. I mean, I don't mean just the gender. I'm saying is we have not had somebody. With so few skills. I mean, she's very, she's a social media person. Yes. What skills did Barack Obama have? He'd literally been a senator for like an hour and a half. Well, he had been to law school. He liked to hear himself speak. He had a, Barack Obama had a depth of knowledge. I mean, I guess, I mean, for a university or something, but I mean, he never done anything. Well, that's right. He hadn't. Look, Barack Obama had, you know, had zero experience. Donald Trump literally to this day does not know how the Constitution works. Tomlin Harris. one of the dumbest adult people I've ever been in the same room with in my life. And all of them have been are very close to being President of the United States. I don't understand what you're asking. Well, I don't think I think the last, I think with the Trump election, it's anomalous because nobody's like him. So I think that's a little bit different. But. I want to ask you this as well. How is it the Democrats are getting away with doing North Carolina or South Carolina before they do New Hampshire again? I thought New Hampshire doesn't allow it by law. All right. All right. So now you're going to make me work, huh? Here I am. I'm sick. I'm on my deadline on my deathbed. And you're going to make me actually work. Yes, go ahead. So New Hampshire has a state law that says that New Hampshire will go seven days, at least, I think seven days, eight days, whatever, before any similar contest. So what that didn't, for most of this 20th and 21st century meant Iowa could have its caucus, because that's not the same as a primary. And then New Hampshire has primary, then that was that. And then in 2020, Joe Biden came to South Carolina. I apologize again. I'm sorry. I'm fighting off this, whatever. In 2020, Joe Biden comes to New Hampshire, a small state full of old white people. I mean, this is Joe Biden territory. This is him at Club Matlock, you know, don't up the tapioca. And I was at the first House party he did in Nashua. And I left it. And all these reporters going, oh, my gosh, he's so good. He's so blah, blah. And I said, he's so old. Look at you think he can not. They're going to nominate that guy. Look how old he is. And that was in 2020. So sure enough, he comes in fifth place in New Hampshire, comes in like third or fourth in Nevada. And the Democrats panic because the guy that's coming in first is Bernie Sanders.

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So they get Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg to drop out, throw their support behind him. And I mean this literally my, I'm not to say friend, but my acquaintance, Congressman Jim Clyburn, who I know, he was my congressman down to South Carolina, throws the black community behind Biden, and that's that. So in 2024 rolls around, Joe Biden knows one thing. He don't want to go back to New Hampshire. So two reasons. One is he doesn't do well here. And the other is he knows he can't campaign in New Hampshire's a small state where you have to campaign. So he announces the DNC is going to change calendar. I refuse to campaign. I'm not going to be on the ballot. So I'm thinking, uh-oh, here we go, big throwdown. And the weasels who run the New Hampshire Democratic Party say, oh, it's okay. We'll write you in. We will organize a write-in so that you can humiliate us. You can go full hookers in Moscow, Golden Shower, all over us, and we will not complain. We'll take it and give up our primary. We love you, Joe Biden, as the former chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party said famously at the time, suck it up, Buttercup. So they give him a pass. He gets away with it. No one sees how bad he is. And then, of course, you have the debate, and that was that. So everyone's thinking in 2028, they're not going to make that mistake again. They're going to come to New Hampshire. It's kind of like in gymnastics, and you've got to do the prelim. You've got to show you can do, you know, do the bouncing in the ropes and all that stuff before you show off. And nope, the Democrats said, sorry, whitey. No whiteys need to apply. Your state is too white. We're going to put you in third place. Well, the state is the law. They're going to go first no matter what. And so the only question is, will Democrats come to campaign? Republicans are going to go first. It's not an issue. Democrats are going to have a primary. The state, I should say, is our primary. Will the candidates show up? And so either Pete Buttigieg and Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris will come here in campaign. And the DNC will go, we're not counting it, and you're in trouble, blah, blah, blah, or they'll stay away. That's the big fight. Okay, so they do have it first no matter what. It's just if the DNC wants to be part of it. But if nobody participates, then what? So there's already grumbling that there might be a party-run primary. In other words, the state has won. They have the ballot. The machines open, and Democrats just don't show up or it doesn't count. And then on their place in the calendar, which is in third place, after South Carolina, Nevada, you'd have the state, the party, run its own like private club primary, and that would be the one that would assign the delegates. But I'll tell you, if the Democrats try to do that, that's the point where voters in New Hampshire will turn on them, because the first nation primary means real money, means real attention. Yes. There's a reason why New Hampshire hits above its weight. This is a key reason. But I just want to run this by your Shattuck. I'd somebody tell me. The DNC says if you come in campaign to New Hampshire and that fake old primary they're doing, if they break the rules, we're going to keep you off the debate stage. And I'll keep people away. And I said one thing. You're telling me that if Kamala Harris comes to New Hampshire in campaigns.

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The Democrats are going to have a debate on national television until the first female black vice president you don't get to play. Good luck with that. That's going to happen. Live by identity politics, die by identity politics. Well, there you go. That's a good place to end. Michael Graham in the Hampshire Journal. Thank you so much. I appreciate it, my friend. Get well, okay? Thank you so much. Take care. Take care. We'll see it. here we go again as you drive around you are now seeing more and more real estate for sales signs nothing stigmatizes a piece of property more than when it just sits there on the market that for sale sign gets moldy and starts to wobble real estate is definitely softened and some areas are very stagnant with growing numbers of listings what can you do to get more eyes on your property the process which creates a huge buzz and stimulates activity around your property is auction that's right auctioned j j manning's auction marketing creates a competitive bidding environment allowing the market to quickly speak in helping you plan your future in j jay manning auctions There are no negotiations. There are only clear auction terms. Don't list your property for sale because it's traditional. List with J.J. Manning for an auction and stand apart from the masses. J.J. Manning recently sold properties for Howie listeners in Hanover, Mass and Bedford Mass. In coming up on September 22nd, in Quincy, Mass, we have a 2,800-square-foot waterfront townhouse in Howe's Neck with direct beach access. If you have commercial, residential, or land to sell, contact Charlie Gill at 800 521-0-1-1-1. Or visit jjaymanning.com. Call Charlie today and mark it sold. The conversation doesn't end when the show does. Subscribe now to the Howie Car Radio Network wherever you get your podcasts. And listen when it's convenient for you.

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Howie Car is back. I got to confirm something here, because this is to be interesting, if this turns out to be true. But somebody just sent me something on this. And let's see. You know, we talked about Jason Ardae. wow uk telegraph jason rday is the cambridge professor who everything about him was a lie he's been found dead this is the uk telegraph the former university of cambridge professor has been found dead mr r dave was found unresponsive at an address in london i don't know if how he really talked about it or grace but he's a guy the black guy with long dreadlocks who um actually had a p p p e degree physical education degree and um and then somehow because of the i reasons he lied about everything he copied his he he i wrote a lot of his stuff he just lifted a lot of his stuff it was everything like he was a total fraud and he was getting found out and uh it was a huge thing it was really a just a slam on on uh cambridge university in england and now he has been found dead wow what a what a story that is man All right. Today's poll question is brought to you by Manzi Appraisers and Restoration in Woburn. Now open is Manzi Marketplace in Woburn. It's your go-to destination for curated consignment and estate fines, located at 3 Green Street in Woburn. Call Dave Manzi at 617-995-0022. Manzi Marketplace. Timeless fines curated for you. Taylor, what is the poll question and what are the results thus far? Today's poll question, which you can vote in at Grace Howie Car Show.com, rather, is with Luigi Mangione pleading guilty, who will be the left's favorite heartthrob jail bird? Michael Avanotti, Luigi Mangione, or Johar Zarayev? Mangiani, all day. 69% say Mangione. Yeah, and by the way, Jason Ardave is going to get more recognition than Brian Thompson, the insurance CEO, who he shot. Guy had a family. It's just amazing, like, how little the media cares to learn anything about the real victim in this thing. Because the media all thinks so insurance people suck. It's like, wow. It's amazing. It's amazing. Like, care. Pretend to care. Show something. But they don't, they don't care. The media, I would think that most of the media probably likes Luigi Mangione. and likes what he did you know because he's a nameless uh faceless nameless person who is uh making mean decisions at an insurance company and it's just easy to have that worldview it's easier to have that worldview um and why why think about it any more than that amazing 844 542 42 when we get back we'll take your phone calls tom shotikin for how we car

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Live from the burner less lethal pistol studio, it's Howie Carr. What would it be like for you? Oh, I want to ask, man. Use the electric official. Are we going to do this the whole way? Well, I mean. Because if we're going to do this the whole way, the next time I'm going to have bodyguards. They're not going to be as friendly. Well, that's fine. But we just want to hear from the mayor. Can he not speak for himself? No comment. No comment. He can ask for himself. Don't fall, guys. It's okay. See where you're calling? Come on, man. We can do this nice. You didn't have to do it like this. Well, no comment. Thank you, guys. He's the mayor of the city of Lawrence. That's great. That is great. That's the lawyer for Brian DePena, who is in deep Kimshi. for taking a bunch of COVID money, $1.6 million to pay his personal debts. Oof, that is rough. That is rough. It's going to get worse before it gets better, Brian, and attorney. He's allegedly, he just stole the money, by the way. Just so we're clear. This is the lawyer just before then when he was snapping at the presses. But Dapena had nothing but nice things to say. This is cut 14.

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You're going to feel blessed. So I'm advised by counsel for the respondent that they indeed encourage this and have a substitution and have no objection. That's okay. That's okay. He spent the time just saying, God bless you. But as you heard there, the mayor then just lashed out of him. Just lashed out of him. Had no patience. for him whatsoever i did promise you margaret chow so margaret chro is a humorless comedian who um who has nothing funny to say much anymore she's just a very salty person she actually gives off um she's i don't know what to say who's the kind of vibes but uh like a hillary clinton kind of vibe anyway here's cut one this is um Margaret Cho talking about why she can't make certain jokes cut one. Or even like talking about trans people. Yes. I think trans lives has become a very big thing in comedy because they want to contest it. They want they don't understand that when you take trans lives lightly in a comedy routine, trans people die. And they don't have that understanding that, like, this is, there are real consequences to your actions just because they don't affect you personally, but this will affect a trans person's life. You can't say a joke because they'll die. They just burst into flames. So you can't say a joke. Great. You know, it's going to be a good set when you see, when that's what's going through, minding the comedian. A few years ago, Norm MacDonald had her on his show, and he made a joke or set her up, whoever you want to see it. Going back to a Norm MacDonald kind of standard that he used to have, and listen to her reaction to what Norm McDonald has to say, cut two. That's the problem when people want to deport all the Muslims from America. They think that they're all part of ISIS. When in truth, they're not. Not even different. Well, I can't say my friend's name, but he said his biggest fear is that ISIS or some terrorist group like that would get a hold of a dirty bomb. And exploded over a major city within the United States and kill tens of millions of people. Because then the blowback against innocent Muslims would be absolutely terrible. Yes, that's true. That's true. Okay, let's do some jokes. That's true. the blowback we have to kill tens of millions of people in the united states a blowback would be terrible yeah yeah i don't i don't disagree on she says you know it's a joke lady but she doesn't get it because she's humorless like so many in the left now are they're just completely humorless and it's too bad too because um

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you'd figure that in the world of comedy then everything goes these people are part of roasts and things but no people are just broken some people are just broken and there's no fixing them at all and that's unfortunate that's unfortunate Here's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This is cut three. This is her clapping back at you. She's mad that you're angry that she's freezing her eggs and doing the whole thing. But this is her new campaign. And as I was talking about with Michael Graham, she's serious. This is cut three. You're not alone. I also find the freak out around it. Pretty funny as well. I'm not going to lie. A commentator that was like, what she's doing is peddling the dangerous lie that women can have it all. You know, I find it very funny because the way of life that conservatives are trying to push out there, which is to marry young and have lots of kids at a young age. That is no threat to me. I celebrate it. If that is a choice that you are coming to freely and you feel good about it, that is no threat to me. But what I do find funny is that my choice is a threat to them, despite the rhetoric they use and the... bald eagles that they plaster all over the place they actually really do not believe in a free country very aggressively do not believe in a free country because they attack everyone who exercises their freedom to choose all sorts of lives but they attack those who choose the life that they don't lead or a life that they don't approve of You do not need anyone's approval to lead your life and make the choices that make you happy. They talk about being pro-family, but all of a sudden, when a 36-year-old talks about having a baby, they're mad. How many male members of Congress are they freaking out about having kids after 40? The president had his last kid at 59. Life happens. And people say you're peddling this dangerous lie that women can have it all. You know, maybe in life you can't have everything. But here's the secret. You can have a hell of a lot. And I am very grateful for my life. I go after what I want. Maybe that's what they don't like either. Too bad for them. This is her fighting about six million straw men.

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Nobody really cares. Okay, nobody really cares, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. You're, it's, is it an interesting thing that you're freezing your eggs at a time when you could still have kids? Um, you know, just totally organically in that you're split up with your long-time boyfriend, who was a long-time fiancé, who you never got engaged to him? I wouldn't counsel any of that. That seems kind of weird for me, but I'll live. I'll live. Most people don't inject themselves, I think, in public. It's a you thing. It's fine. I think you're trying to get to, I think it's trying to create a populist movement. Like, oh, man, look at her, how brash she is. It's like the, you know, what they try to do with Kamala Harris, but she's really trying to grasp it or she's really trying to create it. I don't know that that's going to work. I mean, she is, if she gets into her physicality a little bit more like she has been, I understand that she's put on pounds. I understand. I never caught so much hostility as when I say that she's attractive. Let's see. 201 says, Tom, conditions were just right. Would you break dance? So if I did the thing where I make my way from standing to the ground in an instant, I would break six bones. and cause a heart attack i would not this is about Jacob Frey because he's doing a new dance for somalis and it's weird because it's as if they have a shock collar on him it's fine he's an interesting guy i would not do that i did do a pretty serviceable moonwalk in 1984 depending on the floor i was on uh so five always says hey tom you need a coffee seem a little droopy droopy how dare you i am uh actually just whacked a red bull out while i was over here no thank you i feel excellent i'm excited zero uh talk chemistry in vermont damn these things move Talk chemistry in Vermont. I spent two weeks teaching basic algebra. Yeah, we talked about that earlier. This teacher was just sobbing on social media because his kids can't read and they're about to graduate high school. Nobody's arrested. You're charging people probably a lot. You're charging some people so that you can. taxes property taxes so that you can educate people and you're creating neighborhoods full of people without any education or prospects whatsoever by the way it says don't forget about Anthony Fauci and Newscombe in the poll both are in photo finish for indictment yeah we'll see I don't think Newscom's gonna get indicted it seems like his wife is in closer bigger Kimshi than him 201 says my friend saw his kids teachers in action during covid he's now homeschooling his children additionally costing him thousands with private tutor yeah that's why you got to move to a state where the money follows the student even if it follows a student right home i did find my wife homeschooled for a while our kids during covid

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it's just that's one of the reasons COVID sucked is because we couldn't do it forever because my job got slashed because they shut down the world and I was working on newspapers and when you shut down everything nobody's making any money nobody can advertise newspapers and so we all got pay cuts huge pay cuts pay cuts and so my wife couldn't homeschool anymore so we had to she had to go get a um she had to get a job So she worked overnight, so it's Home Depot, and then she did like waitressing kind of stuff. Whatever it took, you know, you know how it is. You got to do what you got to do. 7-74 says, well, that's some profound bartender wisdom right there from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I know. I know. The only problem with her as a bartender is, I don't think she was a good bartender. I don't think she would even know if I asked her what she thought being a good bartender was. I think she probably smiled and then made weak drinks. 508 said i hope Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rant had alcohol as a factor she said that stuff sober yikes no she said it sober nobody ever to her face criticizes her

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617 says, I keep tuning in, missing the info about that lawyer driving into something. So they're not in Lawrence. They're at the federal courthouse in Boston. And that is the lawyer of Brian DePena, who's the Lawrence Mayor. And he and DePena, Lawrence, the Mayor DePena and his lawyer were leaving the courthouse in South Boston. And as they were driving out, he got in some kind of car accident. But I'm assuming it wasn't serious because it doesn't seem to be written up as serious anywhere. Tom, actually there is video out there. I didn't get the audio because I just saw it before me and Taylor switched. But he just drives straight into, like he's parked. He looks like he parallel parked. And then because the media was driving him crazy, he just stepped on the gas and just smashed into a car that was parked maybe like three feet in front of him. Oof. That's rough. That's rough. Yeah, I would be looking for a new console if it were me. But life is about making choices and good choices. And that's why we're going to talk about Burnah. If you own a Burnah SD, now's the time to upgrade. Right now, you can trade in your Burnah SD and get $150 credit. That credit goes directly toward a brand new burner CL or CLXL. The trade-up process is as easy as one, two, three. First, go online and order your prepaid return kit for just 1999. Second, box up your Berna SD and ship it right back to Burnah. Third, check your email. You'll receive your $150 coupon code in just one to three days. Why upgrade? The Burn of CL and CLXL deliver exactly what you need. You get more power in significantly greater muzzle velocity. Plus, they feature a lighter weight design for easier handling. You'll also unlock more magazine options to fully optimize your setup. Do not wait to set up your personal protection. Go to burner.com slash tradeup to get started today. That's burner.com slash tradeup. My name is Tom Shattuck. This is The Howie Car Show. Watch the show live. Soundwave. Dispatch Rumble. At rumble.com slash the Howie Cars Show. Bumble Activate.

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Maui car is back. How Massachusetts is this? The MBTA will pay nearly $500,000 to the employee whose hair general manager Phil Eng admitted to pulling at a 2024 dinner. This is the globe social media. The first commenter makes a very good point. What the actual bleep. He should be docked his full salary of 484 grand for a year to pay for this. Right. Why do the taxpayers have to pay for this? Why? You kidding me? Because of this dude? Pathetic. Pathetic. So, you know, we talked about AISC making the move to rebrand herself. kind of away from the socialists. Well, maybe she saw something out there. Maybe that's why she did it. Because the polling is starting to look no bueno for Abdul El-Sayed. Harry Enton of CNN, who is the guy at CNN who does a good job. Harry Enton at CNN talked about some of the number, surprising numbers earlier last night. This is cut eight. In Senate Rogers versus Elside, look at this, a new Fox News poll. Rogers is actually up by four points. He's up by four points. It's close, but a Republican is ahead in Michigan. And why? Why? What is going on? Look among independents. Rogers actually leads by five. This is extremely unusual because across the political map, as I was looking at these different Fox News posts, I couldn't find another example where the Republican was actually leading among independents. And it turns out that candidate quality may in fact matter, at least in terms of how voters see it. because in this same poll, the Democratic candidate for governor was ahead. So this is unique to the Senate race, and it is quite a troubling result for Democrats and quite a heartening one for Republicans. Yeah, and it's really surprising. And Hinton goes on in Cut 9 to mention that it's the branding around this guy. It's not, well, I shouldn't say that. It's not just the branding around this guy. It's the fact that, like, he's mean to dogs, among other things, and the fact that he's hanging on with Hasan Piker. Sometimes this stuff gives people a bad feeling. Here's cut 9. So do you have a sense, then, Harry, of what it is that is contributing to the struggles, right, that Abdul El-Sayed is, is it that Rogers is a stronger candidate, or is it that El-Saiyat has more issues for voters to deal with? It is all about Abdul El-Sayed. He is a weak candidate, at least by the metrics that we normally look at, and you can just take a look here. Okay, the net favorability rating of the Dem Senate candidates across these northern battlegrounds. You notice there's only one candidate at, one who has an unfavorable rating higher than... his favorable rating, and it is significantly higher. Look how far underwater Abdul El-Sayed is. He is 13 points underwater under there in Lake Michigan. My goodness gracious, Troy Jackson and Maine. He's at plus one. You got Sherrod Brown at plus four in Ohio, and Josh Turrick and Iowa way above there at plus plus 18 points. This is extremely unusual. Again, across the map, Democrats have done such a good job recruiting candidates who are well-liked by the voters. Again, I looked at all the Fox News posts. All the Democrats were above water except for Abdulazide and he is 13.

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Underwater, this is all about Abdul El-Sayed being a weak candidate, at least in the minds of the voters. And Anton goes on in Cut 10 to say that this is kind of historic. Let's go to Cut 10 here. And so then just putting that perspective, too, in the state of Michigan. This is, I mean, you touched on this, right? But this is especially important when you look at things in the state of Michigan. Yeah, okay. So, you look at this first slide, right? You see that Mike Rogers is ahead right by four points. Well, I was interested because I couldn't think of another example where you actually had a Democratic candidate who was down at least four points. four points in a Senate poll in Michigan, and it turns out for this entire century, Abdul El-Sayed is the only one in a poll that meets CNN standards for publication. This is extremely, extremely, extremely unusual. Abdul El-Sayed breaking records in the ways that you don't want to. In fact, he is the first Democrat down by this much as a Senate century since 1994.

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So that's not good. So will there be this repudiation of all these socialists? Certainly Francesca Hong, although she wasn't as DSA as everybody, but she was enough. She was also uniquely lunaticing. But yeah, this is... This is good news for us, although we want the nominees to lose, so we don't want them to get better nominees. Chumpline is next in the Howie Car Show. Stay with us.