Pete McMurray Show
The Pete McMurray Show is a talk show featuring Pete McMurray and Lisa Kotara. The two address issues like politics, entertainment, health & wellness, sports, fitness, relationships and just about everything else. The show can be heard in three states and growing!
😱📞💻 The average American gets hit with 100 scams a month. From fake texts to shady calls to sneaky emails, how many have you dodged this week? 🚨🎣 #ScamAlert #StaySmart
😱📞💻 The average American gets hit with 100 scams a month. From fake texts to shady calls to sneaky emails, how many have you dodged this week? 🚨🎣
Robo calls ...
Scams ...
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🌤️ Shadows of Sobriety is a powerful look at growing up in the shadow of addiction and finding the light 💔➡️💫 A heartfelt conversation with author Keith Burton on healing, forgiveness, and hope
Shadows of Sobriety .. is an honest and moving look at what it means to grow up in the shadow of addiction and still find a way to heal.
Author Keith Burton joined the show to talk:
What prompted him to write the book
Facing Fears
Family and forgiveness
... and so much more
This story isn’t just about pain. It’s about perspective, forgiveness, and the strength that comes from facing hard truths
Shadows of Sobriety Book
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For Pete's Sake 10.11.25 🎸💰 Jon Bon Jovi’s Nashville bar is for sale for $130 Million. 🎤😎 Note to self: never confess a crime to ChatGPT 😂📱 Public toilet seats have fewer germs than bathroom door handles 🚽🦠
For Pete's Sake 10.11.25
🎸💰 Jon Bon Jovi’s Nashville bar is for sale for $130 Million. For that price he better throw in “Livin’ on a Prayer” karaoke rights 🎤😎
🤖🚔 Note to self: never confess a crime to ChatGPT. It’s not your lawyer it’s your snitch 😂📱
🚽🦠 Public toilet seats have fewer germs than bathroom door handles. Should we start opening doors with our bootie 🍑😳
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Show Open 10.11.25 🛫 FAA says airport delays are because of air traffic controller staffing – apparently no one’s controlling the controllers. 🎃 People are going way overboard on Halloween decorations 🍝 Broke Gen Z is going on dates for the free meal
Show Open 10.11.25
🛫 FAA says airport delays are because of air traffic controller staffing shortages – apparently no one’s controlling the controllers.
🎃 People are going way overboard on Halloween decorations – one guy’s yard looks like Spirit Halloween threw up.
🍝 Broke Gen Z is going on dates for the free meal – love might be dead, but Olive Garden breadsticks live forever.
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😲 Comedian Paul Reiser on Stranger Things fate “At the end of season 4, I was chained to a table by military guys and they left the room. I’d call the Duffer Brothers and ask what’s happening next. Am I alive or dead? We’ll see.” 👀
Legendary comedian, actor, writer, and the guy who made us laugh on Mad About You,
The Kominsky Method, Beverly Hills Cop - Axel F, Stranger Things...
Paul is on Tour - Chicago, Philly, a few more shows in Pennsylvania and many others - go to PaulReiser.com for tickets
Paul shares:
-He wrote the Mad About You theme after meeting producer Don Was at the airport
-Is he dead on 'Stranger Things' "It's an interesting question because it was left in the air. At the end of season 4, I was chained to a ta...
🎤 Mindy Rickles on her fearless dad Don Rickles “No he didn’t. And Sinatra, they were very close ... my dad loved him because Frank Sinatra was the one who would come to the shows and bring his friends.” ❤️ Comedy, friendship, & old Hollywood ✨
Mindy Rickles and her husband Ed Mann host a weekly podcast mixing laughs, stories, and classic clips - called "Mindy and Ed and
Don Rickles"
-Don on the Tonight show
-Mindy Rickles on her fearless dad Don “No he didn’t. And Sinatra, they were very close. My dad loved him because Frank Sinatra was the one who would come to the shows and bring his friends.”
-Don's best friend Bob Newhart
-Did she embrace being Don Rickles daughter
-Working on the movie 'Casino' with Deniro and Scorsese
-Hundreds of appearance on The To...
🎸 Don Barnes of .38 Special writing with Jim Peterik, and how “Hold On Loosely” came to life "What do you think of this title: 'Hold on Loosely'? (JIm says), 'Oh yeah - and don't let him go" 🤘 The Music, the stories, the life of Rock n Roll! 🔥
.38 Special lead singer Don Barnes joined us to talk:
-The 70's music scene in Jacksonville, FL
-How he met Donnie Van Zandt and started .38 Special
-Don on brothers Ronnie Van Zandt (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Johnny & Donnie, "They were from the wrong side of the tracks. Kinda redneck ya know"
-Don and legendary rocker Jim Peterik wrote the music for this album
-How he puts together songs like "Hold on Loosely"
🎸 Rock legend Don Barnes of .38 Special writing with Jim Peterik, and how “Hold On Loosely” came to life
"What do you think o...
NBC’s Peter Alexander on Pete Hegseth’s military flex 👀 | Hamas deadline: deal or blow it up? ⏳💣 | Gov’t shutdown = airport chaos ✈️😡
Peter Alexander is the senior white house correspondent for NBC NEWS and Weekend Today co-host joined us to talk:
-Pete Hegseth military meeting this week
-Hamas has until this weekend to respond to the peace deal
-Government Shutdown
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🎬 Kyle MacLachlan: "That was such a wonderful experience working on Sex & the City. We shot in New York City 🗽✨ no better place to film. And I worked with some amazing people"
Kyle MacLachlan starred as Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks
and Charlotte’s husband Trey in Sex and the City
His new podcast is called “What are we even doing?”
Kyle Talks:
-His podcast and how does he like it compared to acting
-"That was such a wonderful experience working on Sex & the City. We shot in New York City, no better place to film. And I worked with some amazing people""
-Playing Ray Manzarek in Oliver Stone's "The Doors"
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Are you a “Just in Case” family? 😂 Adults keep an average of 17 items “Just in Case” 🎒👖 From old jeans, to mystery cables, and maybe even a fondue set 🫕😂
Are you a “Just in Case” family?
😂 Adults keep an average of 17 items “Just in Case”
🎒👖 From old jeans, to mystery cables, and maybe even a fondue set 🫕😂
44% of us struggle to discard unused household items, even after years of non-use.
What in your house tops the list of things you can’t get rid of?
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Show Open 10.04.25 - ✈️ Traveling? Get ready for the TSA line from hell thanks to the gov’t shutdown ⏳🎒 🎶 Quick, name ONE Bad Bunny song… didn’t think so 😂🐰 📞 Lisa just got her ticket punched to robocall scam hell 🔥🤖
Show Open 10.04.25
✈️ Traveling? Get ready for the TSA line from hell thanks to the gov’t shutdown ⏳🎒 |
🎶 Quick, name ONE Bad Bunny song… didn’t think so 😂🐰
📞 Lisa just got her ticket punched to robo-call scam hell 🔥🤖
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🚨📧 Steve Bernas from the BBB on the “Naked Picture Send Money ASAP” Email Scam: “Delete it no matter what you think, just delete it. It’s best not to even engage with them at all.” ❌💻
Steve Bernas from the Better Business Bureau joined us to talk scams:
-Naked picture send money asap email scam "Delete it no matter what you think, just delete it. It's best not to even engage with them at all"
-Tollway text scam
-Random text scams
-The paypal invoice scam
-Contractor scams
scams, scams, and more scams ...
IT'S THE TIP OFF TO THE RIPOFF!
BBB.ORG
BBB.org
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💵 How Much Money Do You REALLY Need to Live? 🤔 The “Perfect Salary” According to the Average American 🛒🍔
Here is what the average American thinks is the perfect salary to live
Half of us say the money we make now is not enough
If we made money more we would pay: Buy groceries, travel, pay credit cards (yes, in that order)
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🌹 1 in 4 Americans don’t know their partner’s favorite flower 💐 Translation: 25% are one bouquet away from sleeping on the couch 😂🛋️
Do you know your partner's favorite flower? You're not alone
One in four Americans do not know their partner’s favorite flower.
A new survey looked at the role flowers play for people in their lives.
Results showed just a quarter (24%) of those in relationships don’t know what their partner’s favorite flower even looks like.
Pete's Perfectione Roses on Amazon
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For Pete's Sake 10.04.25 📸 NYC crowned most Instagrammable city in US - your bagel pics are safe 🗽🥯 🎸 Stones reissue 1976’s Black & Blue on Blu Ray 🤘 Does anyone still own a Blu Ray player 😂 🍏 Dietitian tests apple-a-day still waiting on doctor’s bill 😂
For Pete's Sake 10.04.25
📸 NYC crowned the most Instagrammable city in the US - your bagel pics are safe 🗽🥯
🎸 The Rolling Stones reissue 1976’s Black and Blue on Blu Ray & DVD 🤘 Because nothing says rock n roll like dusting off the Blu Ray player 😂
🍏 Dietitian tests the apple-a-day theory… still waiting on doctor’s bill 😂
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🎤 Lisa Ann Walter from ABC’s hit Abbott Elementary joined us fresh off the Emmys 🏆 She talked cooking 🍳 the red carpet chaos 👠 and sitcom life at Abbott 🍎😂🔥
Lisa Ann Walters from ABC’s smash hit Abbott Elementary joined us ...
-Lisa is a great cook
-She was just at the Emmys - she saw Nate's opening bit, but could NOT hear it
-Abbott coming back
... And so much more (she is just FUNNY)
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Fox News Channel’s Mike Tobin has done it all: The war zone in Gaza; Climbed Mt Everest; And now … Mike is tackling … bull riding! 🤠 Mike Tobin goes full rodeo: "They're all banged up and they all still get on the back of a bull" 🐂🤣
Fox News Channel’s Mike Tobin has done it all
Been in the thick in the war Zone in Gaza
Climbed Mt Everest
And now … Mike is tackling … bull riding! 🤠 Mike Tobin goes full rodeo: "They're all banged up and they all still get on the back of a bull" 🐂🤣
Mike was at the UBS Arena as the New York Mavericks’ honorary coach
What he says to the bull riders
On the bull riders up close "They're all banged up and the all still get on the back of a bull"
Sports I...
For Pete's Sake 09.27.25 - 🛏️ Matthew McConaughey says save your marriage… with a Queen Size bed 🚓 Jessup, Iowa now arresting people for T-Ping houses 🧸 The Toy Hall of Fame nominees are out. Waiting on Tickle Me Elmo acceptance speech
For Pete's Sake 09.27.25 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🛏️ Matthew McConaughey says save your marriage… with a Queen Size bed. Alright, alright, alright, just scoot over
🚓 Jessup, Iowa now arresting people for T-Ping houses. Toilet paper: the gateway crime
🧸 The Toy Hall of Fame nominees are out. Still waiting on Tickle Me Elmo acceptance speech
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🏈 Who REALLY built the Patriots dynasty 🤔 The quarterback or the coach We have the man who wrote the book on it 📖 NFL insider Gary Myers on Brady vs Belichick The Dynasty Debate 🔥
Who really built the Patriots dynasty: the quarterback or the coach? 🏈 We’ve got the man who literally wrote the book on it.
-Gary Myers is a veteran NFL insider and author of … Brady vs. Belichick: The Dynasty Debate
Gary joined us to talk:
-If Brady and Belichick never crossed paths, do you think either becomes the GOAT at their position?
-WHO mattered more
-When did the relationship between Brady & Belichick start going south
-Patriots owner Robert Kraft played referee between the two
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Legendary Drummer Jason Bonham! 🎶🥁 opens up about father John Bonham & carrying on the Led Zeppelin legacy: "I never got the chance to tell my dad how cool I thought he was… I never imagined continuing for so long" 🎶✨
Legendary Drummer Jason Bonham 🎶🥁 joined the show to talk:
-How he loves motocross more than drums
-On his father John Bonham and carrying on the Led Zeppelin legacy "I never got the chance to tell my dad how cool I thought he was, when this opportunity came together by accident, I never imagined continuing for so long"
-How special the night of the Kennedy Honors with Ann & Nancy Wilson & Jason on drums doing 'Stairway to Heaven'
-Jason's favorite Led Zeppelin tune of all-time
Love Love Love Jason Bonham ... the best!
Jason's...
☕😂 A SHOCKER to no one… science says your morning coffee actually makes you happier 🎉 People reported feeling more upbeat and enthusiastic for up to 2.5 hours after that first cup of joe 🚀 How many cups are you on today 👀
☕😂 A SHOCKER to no one… science says your morning coffee actually makes you happier 🎉
Duh
-Around 80% of adults worldwide consume caffeinated beverages
-The use of these stimulating substances dates far back in human history,”
-Even wild animals consume caffeine
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Show Open 09.27.25 🗣️ Free Speech is free for a reason… and some folks still want a refund 😂🙏 Sister Jean retires at 106! She’s outlasted Popes, Presidents, and probably your iPhone battery 📱✝️🏖️ Baywatch is BACK ... slow motion running, optional 🚨🔥
Show Open 09.27.25
🗣️ Free Speech is free for a reason… and some folks still want a refund 😂
🙏 Sister Jean retires at 106! She’s outlasted Popes, Presidents, and probably your iPhone battery 📱✝️
🏖️ Baywatch is BACK ... slow motion running, optional 🚨🔥
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Singer 🎶 John Waite on Bad English 🎤 “Being from England, being #1 in America, it’s a big deal” 🎤 The anthems you can’t stop singing… even if you say you’re missing nothing at all 😅🎸
LOVE US SOME JOHN WAITE!
The Babys, Bad English, his voice has been part of the soundtrack of our lives.
John Waite is on tour … he will be in Rockford, IL at the Hard Rock Casino - other dates: JohnWaiteWorldwide.com - for tour information
John Talks:
-Being #1 with Bad English "Being from England, being #1 in America, it's a big deal"
-His music and how it's being used in movies and Netflix, plus working with Quentin Tarantino
-Bad English, the egos, and working with Journey Guitarist Neal Schon
-How does he wr...
🔮 Gut Feelings, Prayers, and Pure Vibes 🙏✨ The Surprising Ways We Make Life’s Biggest Choices
Turns out you’re not alone. People are relying on everything from gut instincts and prayers to what they’re
calling “pure vibes” when making major choices.
36 percent lean on intuition, 29 percent on prayers, and 19 percent on vibes
Forget logic - "I have this guy feeling we should go for it!"
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Show Open 09.20.25 🍂 Is it too soon to drag in the patio furniture or do we ride it out till snow hits? 🍻 Pete swears he & David Duchovny would be instant best buds 👀 🦅 Would you drop $$$ to see The Eagles land at the Vegas Sphere? 🎶
Show Open 09.20.25
🍂 Is it too soon to drag in the patio furniture or do we ride it out till snow hits?
🍻 Pete swears he & David Duchovny would be instant best buds 👀
🦅 Would you drop $$$ to see The Eagles land at the Vegas Sphere? 🎶
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🎙️ Announcer Randy West spills on The Price Is Right 🎰👀 “To be on the set it was just weird… people having sex in the dressing room and you’re supposed to ignore the whole thing” 😂 Behind-the-scenes stories you’ve never heard!
Randy West is a a longtime TV announcer for: The Price is Right, Deal or No Deal, Supermarket Sweep … his new book is called:
"TV Inside-Out - Flukes, Flakes, Feuds and Felonies: The backstage blunders, bloopers and blasphemy of celebrities in search of success"
Randy Talks:
-How he met longtime Price is Right announcer Johnny Olson when he 14 years old
-The stories he writes about: Jerry Lewis puts a hit out on Joan Rivers life; Desi Arnaz has a mafia hit put out on him
-Wink Martindale wouldn't go out of his house wit...
🎙️ David Duchovny on meeting (now best friend) Chicago P.D.’s Jason Beghe at 14: “He was a wild man. We called him BAM BAM. He broke through walls… he was a manchild!” 😂
David Duchovny Gets Real: From Poems 📖 to Californication 📺 to Locking Lips with Meg Ryan 💋
-David grew up with Jason Beghe (Chicago P.D. as Sergeant Hank Voight)
-How he writes and writes poems
- What was Chicago PD's Jason Beghe like when they met at 14 "He was a wild man. We called him BAM BAM. He broke through walls. he was a manchild"
-Californications co-stars
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😭 Crying at Work? You’re Not Alone… over 50% of Workers Admit to Shedding Tears on the Job 💻☕
Crying at work is more common than many think - nearly half of in-person and hybrid workers, and 70% of remote
workers, have cried on the job.
Why does crying at work feel different? We do it in other aspects of our lives. Why is crying at work taboo
What's causing this?
WHY are people crying at work?
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💻 From Exposing Online Trolls to Stopping Cyberbullies in Their Tracks 🔥 Featured in A&E’s Bully Hunter 👀 Meet the Man Behind It All… Dr. James McGibney
💻 From Exposing Online Trolls to Stopping Cyberbullies in Their Tracks 🔥 Featured in A&E’s Bully Hunter 👀 Meet the Man Behind It All… Dr. James McGibney touches on:
-How did he get involved in exposing the trolls and cyberbullies
-When most of us think cyberbullying, we think HS kids piling on…he explains the dark and disturbing world of cyberbullying ..
-How does his process work when tracking down an online bully or troll?
-What’s the most shocking case he’ve ever handled that still stays with him
-How has AI changed the game
-192.168.1...
For Pete's Sake 09.20.25 🎸 Foreigner publicly asked Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce to hire them as their wedding band 💍 📺 Sesame & YouTube collab - Big Bird is very happy 😍💃 Madonna biopic coming & guess who’s striking a pose as the Queen of Pop 🎥
For Pete's Sake 09.20.25 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🎸 The band Foreigner publicly asked engaged Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce to hire them as their wedding band 💍 Can you picture Taylor walking down the aisle to “I Want to Know What Love Is”?
😂🐦📺 Sesame & YouTube collab - Mr. Snuffleupagus & Big Bird very happy
😍💃 Madonna biopic coming - & wait until you see who’s striking a pose as the Queen of Pop 🎥
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💘 Office Romance Alert: 1 in 3 employees have dated a coworker! Turns out love is on the clock ⏰❤️ From flirty Slack messages to lifelong partners, many couples say it all started at work… because let’s face it, we’re there ALL DAY 👩💻👨💻
1 in 3 employees have dated a coworker
Pete met his wife at work
Most do
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⚖️ From Prosecutor to Podcaster 🎙️ Anna-Sigga Nicolazzi on Law, Order… and True Crime Stories You Can’t Miss 👀
Anna-Sigga-Nicolazzi is a former prosecutor for the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office,
She is the host of the podcast "Law & Order: Criminal Justice System"
Law and Order podcast
Working for the Brooklyn DA
How they all tie together
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NBC News Morgan Chesky covering the Charlie Kirk assassination "So we know Tyler Robinson, the 22 yr old suspect being held in Utah County jail, we anticipate formal charges on Tuesday, among those charges we anticipate is aggravated murder"
NBC News Morgan Chesky has been covering the Charlie Kirk assassination
-Tyler Robinson's father turned him in
-Security at the event
-Utah Governor Spencer Cox
-Formal charges "So we know Tyler Robinson, the 22 yr old suspect being held in Utah County jail, we anticipate formal charges on Tuesday, among those charges we anticipate is aggravated murder"
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🌜 How Many Hours Do We REALLY Sleep? 😱 The Answer Might Shock You… Plus a 3AM Sleep Hack That Will Get You Back to Sleep 😴
😴 How Many Hours Do You REALLY Sleep? 🕒 The Average Will Shock You… If You Don’t Doze Off Reading This 😂
PLUS - if you wake in the middle of the night and can't fall back to sleep, listen for the sleep hack that WORKS!
Adults just don't sleep
Listen to the crew and find out ...
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📺 David Eigenberg aka Steve Brady on 'And Just Like That' ending: “First it was binge-watching 🍿… then it spun into hate-watching 😡… it even made The New York Times and Variety 📰✨
Chicago Fire's David Eigenberg joined. It's all ridiculous and funny!
-Lisa running into David in the neighborhood and not talking to him
-David was with Taylor Kinney in the neighborhood
-The Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That is over
-The binge watching and the hate watching "first I heard about the binge watching, that became very popular...then it spun out into hate watching...it was written up in the New York Times & Variety"
-His buddy's hotdog stand made the reboot
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🍟👶 Nearly HALF of Adults Secretly Order from the Kid’s Menu… but WHY?! 🤔 The answer is not just chicken nuggets 😂
🍟👶 Nearly HALF of Adults Secretly Order from the Kid’s Menu… but WHY?! 🤔 The answer is not just chicken nuggets 😂
Listen and find out (love us some chickie nugs)
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🎙️ Billy Bush on Charlie Sheen’s new book “The Book of Sheen” 📖: “He was looking for the next dopamine hit and he couldn’t find it in a crack pipe... 'I need a rush, I need a high, I need something different. I need something out of the box.'” 🔥
The 'Hot Mics' podcast host Billy Bush joined us to talk:
-Meghan Markle being an unlikable person
-Charlie Sheen's new book "The Book of Sheen" where he admits to sleeping with women and men “He was looking for the next dopamine hit and he couldn’t find it in a crack pipe... I need a rush, I need a high, I need something different. I need something out of the box.” 🔥 first way"
-Bushy is best friends with Hoover from Animal House
-The Rock has dropped a ton of weight
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For Pete's Sake 09.13.25 🚘 Knight Rider reboots with the Cobra Kai crew behind the wheel 🎂🧇 Waffle House hits 70 candles… and serves a birthday cake waffle 🍻🏈 Jay Cutler flagged for drinking & driving with a loaded “backseat bonus”
For Pete's Sake 09.13.25 - Three of the Most Important Stories of the Week
🚘 Knight Rider reboots with the Cobra Kai crew behind the wheel
🎂🧇 Waffle House hits 70 candles… and serves a birthday cake waffle
🍻🏈 Jay Cutler flagged for drinking & driving with a loaded “backseat bonus”
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Show Open 09.13.25 ⚠️ The political violence has to stop 👖 Adam Sandler’s wardrobe is now classified as “extra too large” 🌀 The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere… because nothing says timeless classic like Dorothy in 4K IMAX on your retinas
Show Open 09.13.25
⚠️ Political violence has to stop
👖 Adam Sandler’s wardrobe is now classified as “extra too large”
🌀 The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere… because nothing says timeless classic like Dorothy in 4K IMAX on your retinas
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🧠💭 New Study: Americans Question 4 of Every 10 Choices… including reading this title 🤔😂
New research says the average American second-guesses themselves 41 percent of their daily decisions.
4 out of 10 decisions daily!
Do you struggle with this?
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