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This is Dan Kaples and welcome to
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single day on your favorite podcast platform. So what happened? What happened to

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Jared Polis and the presidency? Remember
a year ago he was talked about all

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the time, like, oh,
ye know, your guy could be president,

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your guy could be president. I'd
go on business trips and people would

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say, oh, I hear you're
your governor's really good. You hear wrong.

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A recent poll shows that Colorado,
after the debate debacle, is only

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two points one point nine percent leaning
towards Joe Biden. Do you believe that?

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Does that sound right to you?
Go to the phones and talk to

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Tom out in Mead. Hey,
Tom, you're with John Caldera. Thanks

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for calling. Hi, Gott,
how are you? And I'm glad you're

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well. I'm glad you recovered.
Please take it easy, we need you

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around. Thank you. I greatly
appreciate that. Well, your previous caller

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just nailed it. I think,
I mean just he said that Paulus is

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just too smart. To, you
know, tie on to that loser,

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tam La Harris. I mean,
come on, I mean he's he's young,

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and he I'm gonna tell you something. You know, I'm a very

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Republican conservative person, but I see, I know, tell it when I

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see it. And this guy is
one of the most astute politicians I have

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ever seen in my life. Yes, he's pretty smart. And it's not

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just smart. He is lightning fast, and that he can rope a dope,

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particularly reporters, very easy and just
and now in double to them and

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have their wires so crossed. Well, he can do that. But I

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mean so he was one of the
first Democrat governors to recognize that this COVID

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lockdown thing is a losing issue,
and you know, he ran away from

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him and started opening up the state. And I watched him do it,

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and I thought that was very astute
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the right thing to do. The
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he did, and he had the
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I just I'm gone, I'm looking
at this guy. I'm going,

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you know, this guy's gonna go
places. But I think your previous caller

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just nailed it. You know,
he's too smart to hitch his wager,

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that stupid mule back in Washington.
No way. I see it as a

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no lose thing that if he runs, he gets to burnish his credentials with

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the Left, which he'll need in
order to win an nomination later. He

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gets name recognition everywhere. He gets
to find a way to travel and talk

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to people and do it pretty quickly. And he he win, lose,

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win or lose. He wins,
well, let's let's say Kamala wins.

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Let's say Kamala wins, hang on, play with me. If Kamala wins,

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he's a heartbeat away. That's a
good thing. If she loses,

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she loses. He doesn't. You
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Mondale never would have been able to
to win the nomination. That's why

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I'll become president. Now. You
don't become president for that. Yeah,

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but he followed, but he was
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I don't know. He might be. My suspec is Kamala won't choose him

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because she needs a RUSS got a
belt swing state. I gotta keep Biden

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in there, gotta keep that and
uh, but I just think that Paul

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is too smart to uh maybe I
love I love your your thoughts. We

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got to keep Biden in there,
like you and I have anything to say

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about it. Part of me one
this question, John, let me ask

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you this question. They'll pick a
lot of topic. I can't, he

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can't. Jill the first lady we
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a jail because we get him confused. But I think she got to be

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She had to be arrested for elder
You don't you think this is gross?

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I mean, really, you gotta
be kidding me, dude, what I

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mean? What do you think about
that? I think she loves her man

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and want wants him to be president. There are many hang on, hang

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on, hang on, hang on. You asked me my thoughts and then

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you spoke over me. So let's
try this. I think she is like

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many politician wives who live vicariously through
their husband. I've known many wives who

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want who want the spouse to be
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I have heard the same thing might
be true for Senator Hickenlooper. It was

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the same thing was true for uh
Gary Hart that there were people, there

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were wives who who were really into
it. You know, I think if

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it was somebody like Nancy Reagan,
she only wants to protect her man,

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and Jill, Jill thinks this is
this is what he deserves. So how

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about this for a thought? Okay, I wonder if Team Biden, knowing

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how feeble he is, agreed to
an early debate to force this issue.

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I'm going to try that again.
Is it possible that this early debate between

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two guys neither one have been nominated
yet so early on in the in the

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race, was just to get people
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Knowing that this would happen, I
wouldn't be surprised. I agree with you.

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I totally agree with that. There's
more operatives than not, more people

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in the Democratic Party than not that
wanted to drop out, and the only

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thing that it's standing between Biden and
that decision as his wife. Yep,

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that I agree. Thanks for the
call. Let me grab another one.

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Thank you so much. Three or
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five five. Let's go out to
Kenyon City. Talk to Eugene. Hey,

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Eugene, you're with John KELDERA Hey, John, nice to talk to

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you. I love when you fell
learn and you and Ryan do a great

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job. Which one does a better
job, Which one does a better job?

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Which one does a better job with
me? Is it mean? Probably

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me? Isn't it? I'm like
putting me on the spot there I was

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supposed to do. I love you
both the same. I'm listening, right,

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I can be the tiebreaker here.
Oh, yes, Reilly, Hi,

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how are you. I'm so glad
you're feeling better. Yeah, Eugene

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likes Ryan. Hugene, you cheating. I mean I think he's putting words

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in my mouth. Hey, I'm
listening both times, right, So oh,

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don't try, don't try to make
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Eugene, it is over. I
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What do you got for paconomically?
Okay, So, regarding a Polish running

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for presidents, I think he's obviously
cunning and capable and a good politician.

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I don't agree with his policies,
did not vote for him. But he's

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not an attractive person. I know
that sounds kind of messed up being a

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getting a vice president ticket might be
the best thing for him. Because we

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look at presidents and with the exceptional
past and lb J in the twentieth century,

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we tend to elect in a media
environment, attractive people to be president,

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and I don't think polists could even
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got the nomination and not twenty thirty
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not physically attractive enough? I don't
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ugly. Yeah, you look at
you look at somebody like Gavin Newsom and

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you just go really, really,
you look like a televangelist. Are you

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kidding me? Tall, tall,
thin, big hair. That's that's what

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politicians need to be, tall than
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think I think of you know,
Pritzker is not a good looking man.

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Who am I thinking of? The
former governor of New Jersey? I can

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see his face and Alzheimer's says,
kicking in. I wonder iful. We'll

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rename Alzheimer's Bidenism something something like that. Anyway, I want to bring back

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ugly politicians. You know what I
want? I want a bald president.

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We haven't had a bald president since
Ike. You could argue for it,

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but he didn't win. So no, we haven't had a bald president since

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Ike. And as a bald man, I I'm now into the identity politics,

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and I will not vote for anyone
who isn't bald, and Jared's balding,

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So yeah, you know, I
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dicked his head and then put on
the four nice heard, I think he

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looked pretty boss, and I think
should do that. But I'm all right,

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we'll think about it. I gotta
run you a break. Thank you

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so much for the coke phone call
three three seven to one, three eight

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two five five seven to one three
talk. Why aren't people talking about Polus

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for president when a year ago they
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John Calderic. Keep it right here, six thirty k how and now back

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to the Dan Kaplas Show podcast.
I don't know if I can get into

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that song. That's just a little
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Sounds like a Christmas song almost.
Hey, I'm John Caldera, give me

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a call three h three seven one
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should replace Biden. Of course,
I don't want anyone to replace Biden,

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but if someone does, should it
be our own governor Polis. I don't

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think that's likely, but I think
there's a possibility he could become a vice

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presidential running mate. Three O three
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in the bathroom, best name ever
you're with John KELDERA, yeah, John.

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If you don't know where that comes
from, you'll have to ask.

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I think I just did, and
I loved it. For those who don't

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know, apparently you called in and
because of a typo, Dan called you

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Sonny in the bathroom instead of sorry, I'm in the bathroom. Even it's

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something completely different, but you'll have
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that all is about. Well,
just to see that you're you're still dodging

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the afterlife. So congratulations on that. And I'm sure your son is enjoying

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packing up your stuff for the airport
trip. It's funny, quick, quick

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quick thing on that. So my
with a heart attack. My my daughter

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really flipped out. She flew in
from college to lord all over me and

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her fascist manner. I opened up
my refrigerator and all the good food is

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labeled with a big no exclamation point. And my my son, who has

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down syndrome, he could tell something
was wrong, but he was he was

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just tied in and giving me all
this all the right love and but very

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gentle because he knew I was I
was hurt. Yeah, it's good to

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have family. Yeah. So just
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as Polus, I saw a video
from seeing in broadcast right after the debate

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that listed Polus as a possible.
So what I'm really wondering what happened after

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the night of the debate where he
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now. I mean, did he
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been something there? And I,
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same question because you and I understand
that a year ago he was, you

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know, in the top well he
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of Yeah, right after the debate, he was listed on CNN of the

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broadcast as a top three contender.
But now it's completely shifted. So I'm

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wondering if he told them no,
that he saw the debacle coming and maybe

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he said like, hey, I'm
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all, or what I mean,
you know, don't I don't care enough

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to think about it too much,
but it is interesting, Yeah, it

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is. He is so very very
smart. He knows how to take advantage

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of this. But he's got a
position himself for twenty twenty eight. That's

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what he's thinking about. There's no
doubt about it. And being a running

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mate would I think only help.
I don't think it would hurt him,

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and it would only take him away. It would only take him away from

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his duties for a few months.
So he does, he has a and

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then everyone knows who he is.
I'm sorry, what duties are those?

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Like dancing around on TikTok or something
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taxes by calling them fees and banning
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Those duties, well, yeah,
that'd be a great thing to take them

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away for a while. So maybe
we should all encourage start to go fund

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me or something like the fund his
campaign. Yeah, run, Jared Run,

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Although would you really want to inflict
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anybody? YEA. Let me say
this at least Kamala and I might have

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this wrong if I do. Let
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raging socialist that she presents as that
you get what you get what is advertised.

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It's one of the reasons I loved
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Will from Denver. She was a
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she didn't do what so many other
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a moderate. Now she was the
same person. What you see is what

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you get. Polis is the opposite. What you see is not what you

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get. He is better than Clinton
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changing his tone, changing his words
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then when he's in office, he
destroys businesses, destroys civil liberties. As

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far as Kamala goes, you know, I think at the beginning of her

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career she's a little bit of a
sleeper candidate. But I think things have

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probably changed since then. Yeah,
could be, could be. So I'll

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ask you to say, I'll ask
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you think this early debate that the
Biden team agreeing to it was was done

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on purpose, that this is what
they wanted the world to see. It's

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so hard to tell. I mean, I think not that they wanted to

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see that, but what they wanted
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see if they could pull it off. And it's better to figure out can

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we pull this off earlier than it
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some time before this whole Ohio thing
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like that, that they've got to
have somebody figured out by then. So

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I think it was they wanted to
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I suspect I have no proof that
those people inside his inner circle agreed

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to this so that the world could
see what they saw and and this move

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this issue altot. I The more
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I believe that Biden will will decide
not to run. Yeah, but I

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guess who do you think are the
people that would actually agree to Biden doing

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the debate? That's what I don't
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we agree to that. I mean, we know Biden's not running anything

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so right, so it has to
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lot of his people, including maybe
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have sway there. That'd be my
guess. Anyway, thanks for the call.

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We'll play with this after after a
quick break three h three seven one

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three eight two five five seven to
one three talk. I'm John Caldera.

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Is Polish ready for the big league? Should he go? Would he go

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keep it here here on six thirty
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Show Pop. I know, I
know you're gonna hate this. I can't

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stand that. I knew you were
gonna say that. I knew you were

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gonna say that. I cannot stand
that. And I know it's a it's

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a beautiful song, and people get
teary and they wave the flag, and

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but good god, it is such
a too dimensional, in your face kind

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of song. Is that it's supposed
to be? Maybe you know, it's

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not like it's not like the Star
Spangled banner, because are flags to wave?

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It tells a story, this one. Yeah, And I don't feel

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that free these days. I feel
rather coerced and controlled. So you know,

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I love America, but you know
she's got some serious problems anyway.

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No, there's just I'm there's no
texture to that song. I'm sorry.

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I know you hate me, and
it means I'm a bad patriot. But

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that's that wasn't my point. I
heard Kelly scream no she was sad.

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Yes, because screaming I heard you, oh no else like you saw a

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kit and get run over When I
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that is Ryan, you are not
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opinion. John, continue yet big
fat loser communist? All right? Three

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or thirty seven one three, eight, two five, five seven one three

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talk. We're talking about a poll
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within two points of Biden in Colorado. If true, that would be remarkable.

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I highly doubt it, and I
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don't know for fact. I speculate
this poll was leaked to someone in the

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press for the very purpose of scaring
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Joe Biden, or should I say
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is the person who makes the call
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we've got We've got people admitting Joe
is thinking about it. This from New

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York Times. President Joe Biden has
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days are crucial and understands that he
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if he cannot convince voters that he's
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performance last week. According to two
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reading from the Times, Biden has
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the fight for reelection, but understands
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the line. All right, what
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out? The Times editorial board made
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out. And so then to put
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he's considering it. That's basically what
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Holy moly. Once once you do
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of weakness, what you do is
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pressure. Hmmm. Presidents ought to
project confidence Wednesday and a call with his

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campaign staff even as White House officials
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inside the Biden administration. No one's
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call. I'm not leaving. We
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president's lead, said Kamala Harris.
We will fight and we will win.

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Oh, she's just terrific, isn't
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fear in that story. That was
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that this was a news story.
This wasn't a news story. This was

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another brick to drop on Biden's head
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that there is growing momentum for him
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that he's got a problem, that
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people to call for him to come
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according to two allies, they don't
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new poll from The New York Times
in Sennia College showed that Donald Trump now

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leads Biden forty nine percent to forty
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three point swing toward the Republican from
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six point deficit in the poll was
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it harder to hang on. Although
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worse, it could have been worse, so Jean Pierre Kareem Sean Pierre,

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the White House Press secretary, said
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talked to allies about dropping out of
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she said during the briefing. But
wait a minute, the President says he's

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not talked to allies about dropping out, and then one of his allies spoke

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on the condition of anonymity to The
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aware of the political challenge he faces. In other words, he talked to

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him about dropping out. That person
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of his campaign could be different from
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that person said, believes he is
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and who doesn't get how others don't
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to the story, key party donors
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PACs, and the Biden campaign and
the White House to say they think Biden

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should step down. An elected Democrat. An elected Democrat speaking on the condition

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of anonym who are these wusses?
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political sensitivities, said the decision was
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thing that matters is his decision on
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That person said, all right,
the purpose of this New York Times

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story was to say he's thinking about
it, he is seriously considering it,

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he knows it's a problem. In
other words, it's there to get more

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pressure on him. My suspicion is
over the next couple days, the pressure

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for him to drop out will grow
exponentially. Now should he do that?

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It leaves a question not only who
replaces him, but if he's ready to

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not be president, would he just
quit now and let Kamala be an incumbent

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running for reelection. When you think
of it, if he really cared about

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the country and about the election,
keeping the house, keeping the White House

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in Democratic hands, he would not
just drop out of the race. He'd

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resign. He'd resign so that Kamala
could run as president. It's a lot

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easier to win as president, don't
you think. Give me your thoughts on

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this. Three h three seven one, three eight two five five seven to

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one three talk What what does he
have to hear? What needs to happen.

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It's amazing to see Democrats scramble,
and I'm trying not to take Schottenfreud

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in it. I'm trying to not
take pleasure and watching them scramble and finally

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admit what all of us already knew, that this guy is not up to

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the job. And one has to
wonder. Excuse me, friends in the

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media, Excuse me, Democrats who
know better. Where were you for the

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last three years? Oh, now
you're pressuring him to leave now that it

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looks like he might lose, But
you were happy to have the nation be

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in the hands of a guy who
can't remember where his feet are. Is

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there? You know what? You
guys deserve this Democrats, you deserve this

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mess because none of you would stand
up and say what needed to be said.

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Three or three seven, one,
three, eight, two five five.

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I'm John Calderrek. Keep it right
here six point thirty k how and

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now back to the Dan Kaplas Show
podcast. Now that a song. I

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was hoping you'd like that. One. Guy's got some soul going there.

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We might have had to fight if
you didn't like that one. Yeah,

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I'm pround to me and a manicin
all right, look at it. It's

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it's a kiddy tune, but Purple
Mountain's majesty is grace on these with the

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soul of this. Now that's how
you're doing a song about patriotism. Yeah,

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Ray Charles is America. John You're
right, Ray Charles. You know

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what if if Ray Charles and Johnny
Cash had a baby, it would be

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America. I love it. Yes, Yeah, that's that's how you celebrate

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America. That's how you celebrate America. All right, you're ready for my

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best joke? Oh it did?
Okay, I made this one up today,

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right. It's so they asked her
how how do you keep a dog

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from barking on July fourth? And
Christy Noman answered, you shoot him on

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the third. Oh that's good that
that that was mine, made that completely

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by myself. I like it.
It's dark, it's great, it's cutting,

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and it's true. See now,
if you sign onto my newsletter at

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from me tomorrow. Should go out
with that joke in it. I put

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out a little weekly note about what's
going on and send out our column and

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what's going on on our TV show, Devil's Advocate. But but occasionally I

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I write a good joke that sicks. Just that's from way downtown right there.

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So Christopher Hitchens, the late great
Christopher Hitchens, had some great observations

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about humor, more specifically about why
women aren't funny. And he wrote this

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piece for was It What are you
write? Vanity Fair? And he said,

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quote, women aren't funny because they
don't have have to be that that

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men need to win women's attention,
so they work on being funny women not

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funny. They don't have to be
a lot. Went on to say that

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guy humor. Guy humor is cruel, that there is there is a competitive

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meanness about guy humor. And you
think about the Three Stooges. What's funny

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about some guy getting hit with a
two by four. If you're a guy

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and it happens to somebody else,
that's funny. If it happens to me,

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I know, I got it.
No, No, you're both full

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of crap. Well that's true.
What what exactly? Well, she's a

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girl. So she's a girl.
She's she's she's offended. She's not funny.

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Stop it what, I'm very funny. All right, let's have a

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joke right now. I can't know. I just laugh. H h that's

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her humor. It'll laugh itself.
Yeah. There are funny women. Don't

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get me wrong. There are the
Lucille Balls of the world. They are

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the Tina phase of the world.
They're funny women. But no, no,

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and guy humor is cruel. Girl
humor is not nearly as cruel.

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Just something to think about on your
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