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93 counties, 200 events, and riding a wave McConaughey just supercharged. Iran, the USS Lincoln, and Christmas on a credit card. Plus: Friday Football picks.

Dan Osborn is back for a record sixth appearance, and he's walking into the final stretch of the most-watched Senate race in the country. Running as a true independent against Pete Ricketts — a sitting senator from a billionaire family that owns the Chicago Cubs — Osborn has outworked, out-hustled, and out-organized a $50 million machine. Fourteen counties left on a ninety-three county tour. More than two hundred public events. Small-dollar donations from all fifty states. And a message that is cutting through: less than two percent of Congress comes from people who punch a clock, and that is exactly why nothing gets done.

Paul and Dan dig into the mechanics of a dead-heat race, the Matthew McConaughey moment and what star power finally means for the independent movement, and the sucking chest wound of the Iran war — the USS Abraham Lincoln, the attempted suicides on board, service members paying their own way home, and a Congress of jellyfish refusing to invoke the War Powers Act. Dan also gets honest about the cost at home: Christmas on a credit card, groceries climbing, paychecks flat. Then Football Friday closes it out, because the man is a Nebraska guy and the Cornhuskers are back.

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