• M.L. Elrick (Twitter @elrick/Facebook ML ELRICK/Instagram ml_elrick), Shawn Windsor (Twitter @ShawnWindsor), Marc Fellhauer (Twitter @MarcFell) and Detroit Free Press contributing columnist Darren Nichols (Twitter @dnick12/Facebook Darren Nichols) pepper Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson with questions about how to vote, where to vote and what’s being done to make sure our votes are counted. Matt Jennings (Twitter @MattRJennings) kicks the knowledge while Joey Zuver wonders why he even bothered studying history in college.
• THE STRAIGHT DOPE:  Madam Secretary answers a flurry of questions about: How you can vote? Where you can vote? Who is sending you all those absentee ballot applications? Whether you can get an absentee ballot and still vote in person? Who can drop off your completed absentee ballot? How you can vote even after sending in your absentee ballot? What is being done to make sure your votes are counted? What the Secretary of State is doing to help get the votes counted in Detroit? To hear her answers to all this and more, you’ll have to listen to the show. If you still have questions, you can visit www.michigan.gov/vote and www.michigan.gov/electionsecurity. If you sense something sketchy about the election, you can send an email to the Secretary of State’s office at: [email protected]
• ML asks Secretary Benson to respond to a suggestion that she is a “protege” of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. ML then shares his own experiences dealing with Benson during her time as a member of the Detroit Ethics Board, law school professor and Dean of the Wayne State University School of Law.
• THE GREAT DEBATE: The New York Times reported that President Trump only paid $750 in income taxes a couple times. The boys debate what impact that revelation will have on the 2020 presidential race — and ML wonders what’s up with Joe Biden’s taxes. 
• GEEK OF THE WEEK: Marc and Shawn have some good candidates, but ML takes the cake with his selection of cake eater Tucker Carlson and the admission of his Fox News lawyers’ admission that not everything the smug yuppie says is true!
• THIS WEEK IN SOFT HISTORY: Dr. J kicks the history. Is it funny? That’s for you to say. (And if you repeat this a few times quickly, it kinda rhymes!)
• ROOM 7609:  Our month of epic NuWave B-sides ends on a high note, with “How Soon Is Now?” the B-side to The Smiths’ “William It Was Really Nothing.” (Proving that, once again, ANR men make lots of mistakes!) As an added bonus, Christopher George, lead singer of The Smiths United, joins us to discuss The Smiths and The Smiths United’s gig this Friday outside at the Cadieux Cafe. For full details — including the Cadieux’s nightly music line-up — visit www.cadieuxcafe.com
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