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This is Dan Kaples and welcome to
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I'm eating what are you eating? The

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power bar? What are you doing
that for? Because I want to be

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a fighting strength. So I need
a little protein here and an hour to

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go? Can you do it?
No, that's long shift. I can't

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do it. It's two hour shift, Sir. Man was not made to

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work two hours. Oh he need
a break. M Hey, I'm John

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Keldare give me a call? Three
oh three seven to one three eight two

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five five In an hour, actually
less than an hour, Our commander in

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chief takes to an Oval office speech
to explain why he's dropping out of the

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race. Oh and by the way, it's not because he's old. Mm

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hmm. According to The Hill,
President Biden's decision to step aside was as

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was the expected Democratic nominee. Quote
has nothing to do with his health.

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Let me say it again, his
top spokesperson said today ahead of his primetime

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speech. The decision had nothing to
do with the health with his health.

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The president is going to speak directly
to the American people in prime time.

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Okay. In his letter, he
talked about the country, he talked about

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the party, he talked about the
moment we're in right now. She said

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it is not about his health.
I can say, no, that's not

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the reason. But hear him out
tonight. Really, how you have to

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be the spokesman for basically any president
and spin this kind of BS is a

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talent that I never really want to
have. Go to the phones, three

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

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Let's talk to Faith out in Thornton. Hey, Faith, glad to have

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you. Hey, how are you? Thank you for mine? Thank you?

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What do you got to say?
Sam Terris, I don't know how

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people are so dumb to vote,
Oh, because she's a woman, she's

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black, whatever, vote on the
merit, not on the secret service or

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ooh right. It is so frustrated
right now, don't get frustrated. Let

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me see if I can articulate what
I think you're trying to say, which

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is to vote for someone because of
the identity politics boxes they check is pure

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racism. It is ugly and we
should say no to it. To say,

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oh, look, we need the
first person who has female genitals as

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president because that matters. We need
to have the first person with this skin

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color because that matters. No,
it doesn't matter. There are positions on

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policy matter. You need to know
the policies and you need to be able

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to run the country. And I
know one thing Trump can't because I live

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the days of him, and I
live them better than I have lived last

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four years. I think that's true
with most. There's a wonderful piece in

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the Wall Street Journal I think It'll
be tomorrow. Daniel Henninger, who I

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enjoyed quite a bit, really lays
it on that that Kamala can win.

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That in other words, Donald Trump
can lose. And he had the perfect

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opportunity to put this election away the
night he received his nomination and did his

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acceptance speech. It was a terrible
speech. He did not reach out to

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the middle. He instead went down
his usual stump speech towards MAGA Republicans instead

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of having a speech that really taught
using that word. But I am not

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kidding you. I think he missed
a terrible I think he missed a huge

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opportunity that night, and I think
he could have put away the election.

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I think it would have been sewned
up no matter who the Democrats put up

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if if he if he didn't go
down the path he went. That long,

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meandering, ninety two minute speech was
not a good plan. If he

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stayed on the script, I think
this election would be a slam dunk.

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And you just report John that the
dump button was reached in time, just

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so you know. Yeah, good, good, good to know. So

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you don't don't don't swear we're big
boys and girls. We can come up

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with better words. I do believe
Trump missed an opportunity. It was not

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a great speech, and it didn't
have it didn't have that come together feel

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that that we were told it might
have. And that was a shame.

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It was a missed opportunity. But
it shows that Trump cannot help himself.

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He just cannot help himself. He
cannot help himself. But to say things

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like crazy Nancy Pelosi, true as
it might be, it doesn't help you

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get those swing voters. You desperately
need those swing voters who have up until

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that point a considerable amount of empathy
because you got shot, you were almost

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killed. And to have a speech
where he he said I'm going to be

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a president for all and instead of
going on a tear against his critics to

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say, here's what we're going to
do. If he just kept to the

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script, I think he'd be spiking
the football in the end zone right now.

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So, in about forty five minutes
or so, the president takes the

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air to talk about why he decided
not to run. Wouldn't it be refreshing?

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Wouldn't it be refreshing if he said, listen, guys, I really

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wanted to run again, but I'm
just not remembering things. You know.

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I just I'm not mentally agile enough
to be president. Now he cannot say

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that, because if he does,
it leads to the very next question,

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then why don't you resign? Shouldn't
you resign? If you're incapable of doing

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the job, you should resign now. Now, all of us who have

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dealt with people who have Alzheimer's or
dementia or even just getting old, understand

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that things do not get better.
It's not like it's not like Biden is

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going to get sharper as he gets
older, that he's gonna get more sane

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and make more sense and be able
to think more clearly. He's only going

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to do it less and for his
press spokesman spoke Lady to say, Oh,

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it's not about his health. Yeah, it's not about his health.

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It's about his mental acuity, which
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She also rejected the idea I'm reading
from the Hill that she and White House

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aides were engaged in a cover up
to mask Biden's decline from the public.

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There's been no cover up, want
to be very clear about that, she

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said. No. The real villain
in this is the mainstream media. Yes,

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of course, those people around Biden
tried to cover up how incredibly frail

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and mentally checked out he was.
That was their job. I don't blame

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them for that. The people I
blame are the media who knew this,

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who've seen it, who've talked about
it privately. But it wasn't until the

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debate where we Americans got to see
this guy for ninety minutes unplugged to find

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out really what's going on or not
going on in his brain. At that

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point, the media turned on him
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They turned on him as part of
a very well coordinated pressure campaign to

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get him out. Every rumor,
every every story of people who were asking

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him to leave shot up to the
front page. Where in the world were

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they for the last three and a
half years while the guy was losing his

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marbles? They were complicit. They
were complicit in the cover up of his

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failed mental health. And as soon
as the secret was out and everyone knew

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it, well, then they just
jumped on the bandwagon to get rid of

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them. Even people. It's funny
that some of the leftists I know had

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no idea how bad he was.
You and I know we listened to his

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clips. They really thought all these
clips that we have and all the silliness

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that we played, or just you
know, Fox News and talk radio coming

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up with with with deep fake stuff
and pulling this out of the out of

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thin air. No, once they
got ninety minutes alone with Biden, they're

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like, oh my god, this
guy, this guy has the nuclear codes.

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You could you could launch the weapons. And he can't find his way

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off a stage anyway. Three or
three seven, one, three eight,

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two five five. Why wasn't Kamala
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is big stuff. She wasn't there
because it was a no win situation for

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her, Because the left is turning
its back on Israel and so she can't

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be seen as supporting Israel. But
a bad time to be her. Oh

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and also what is the man gonna
say tonight? Is there any bit of

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news that he's gonna give that you
might be surprised if you were If you

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were Biden, what would you say
in your speech tonight? Three or three

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seven one, three eight two five
five? I'm John and keldera and for

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the big man, keep it right
here six point thirty k how and now

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back to the Dan Kapla Show podcast. I know JJ's first albums. It

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was put out on the Beatles recordly
Oh Yes, and this song was on

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it. It was faster tempo,
this one omens and I think it was

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Peter Asher who introduced him to Paul
McCartney. Peter Asher was Jane Asher's brother

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and that was the girl he was
he was dating. There. There you

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have it. You heard it here
first. Now there's a couple comparisons here,

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and I want to get your thoughts
on it as a noted Beatles historian,

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as I know you are, John, and I fancy myself a big

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fan as well. But what you
just said about Carolina in my mind,

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and slowing the tempo or having it
be a faster tempo reminds me of John

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Lennon's original compost composition of Revolution and
how he wanted Revolution one correct slower and

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then they sped it up, and
I think I'm not a mistaken Tom Hanks

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mimicked that can kind of conflict with
that thing you do, and that the

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John Lennon type character that was featured
in that film. Not sure if you

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saw it, I imagine you would
have. No. I love that song.

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I wanted that song to be slower, and then they sped it up

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and it became their one hit wonder
exactly. Yeah, that thing you do,

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I think that was the name of
the song. And the drummer hit

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it at a faster beat and it's
d yeah. Yeah, But do you

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like the slower version of Revolution better
or the faster one? I like the

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faster. The stinging guitar by Harrison
stinging, yeah, the stinging guitar just

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hits it. And of course every
now and then you've got to pull out

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Revolution nine from the White album just
to go I don't I don't get it,

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man, I just don't get it. Number nine, number nine,

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number nine, and that was from
one of the guys and some other I

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took it from a tape of this
is tape number nine, number nine.

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Yeah, they were not Asseid or
anything, right. He was on Heroin.

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Who's doing a lot of Heroin then? And if you've ever seen the

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Get Back documentary that's on Disney's right, which was taken from all the old

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Let It Be film footage, he
was He and Yoko were on Heroin quite

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a bit during all that. Oh
my yeah. Yeah, and Yoko is

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like ninety. I think she's ninety
years old now, no one's seen her

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and I'm you know how when when
someone dies, you have to say all

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the nice things, right, I'm
just wondering how many people are going to

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say the nice things when when Yoko
finally he's this world. I just she's

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a cringe worthy individual. Well,
the more the more I learn about her,

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the more I realized she she was
not a nice lady. No.

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But on the opposite side of that, maybe same coin John, And maybe

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you've seen this on Twitter slash x. Their son Sean, who's about the

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same age as I am. He's
I think like you. I think he's

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a libertarian though when I noticed him
tweeting he is not a leftist and knew

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my friend so John's first son,
Julian, is my age ye, and

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he seems to be pretty sane from
what I can tell. Right when I

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saw Sean Lennon doing a bunch of
anti petroleum, anti fracking stuff with his

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mother, this was years ago.
Maybe he's changed. I think she has.

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I think he has changed. Yeah, Oh, that would be that

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would be delightful. One of the
things he's hinted at too, and maybe

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this will also please you. And
the audience was that he's not so sure

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his dad would be a committed leftist
in today's climate. He's not at all

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convinced of that. I don't think
he was a committed leftist. Then.

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I think he was just out of
his gourd, and I think people took

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advantage of him. Lenin had just
so many demons. You know, he

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was abandoned by his father, he
was abandoned by his mother. Then his

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mother dies and then he's raised by
this very stuffy uh and you know it's

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just he had he had demons of
the wazoo. And that's why when Yogo

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came along, you know, this
this very authoritarian figure to you know,

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to be the mom he never had. He just walked right into it.

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No, he just Oh that poor
guy was was was messed up. It's

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it's sad. It's sad, and
it's amazing to be able for those of

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us who are real Beatles fans,
you can just dive into this stuff for

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years and years and years and years
and just keep going. I do like

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so when Yoko goes, and everyone's
gonna have to go, oh, she

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was such a wonderful person. It
reminds me of what happened with Trump recently

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that for the last eight years,
the left has been screaming, he is

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Hitler, He's a threat to democracy, and especially after January sixth, he

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has to he has to be stopped
by any means possible because he's Hitler.

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He is Hitler. He will destroy
our nation, destroy our freedom, destroy

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our democracy because he's Hitler. He's
Hitler. He's Hitler. And then he

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gets shot, and the very same
people are basically saying, are thought and

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prayers go out to the family and
loved ones of Hitler. We hope,

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we hope, we hope Hitler has
a a speedy recovery, and we hope

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Hitler gets backed into the world soon. You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show

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podcast. I love that movie.
I think it was Tom hanks first directorial

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movie, and it was about this
little band that had a one hit wonder.

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As a guy who's a no hit
wonder, I would love to be

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a one hit wonder, even if
you were part of the on Eaters.

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That's part of the on Eaters I
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real job. I used to do
a lot of stage lighting, a lot

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of rock and roll concerts. And
there's a group called the Fornicators and they

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were just a great, old,
funny cover band. But if if if

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they had to go to some place
that was polite, they would just go

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by the four Nicoteurs. That's good, it worked. Hey, three oh

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three seven one three eight two five
five is my telephone number, Give me

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a call. Let's go out to
Eurie and talk to Mike. Mike,

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welcome, Hey, thanks, Hey. The kind of partying shot at the

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bottom of the hour there was directed
toward folks that are probably like me,

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who who do feel like Trump is
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or constitutional republic, whatever you want. To say, but I don't think

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it's fair to characterize people like me
and maybe being happy that he got shot

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or hoping that he would have gotten
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I said it was fascinating that the
people who kept calling him Hitler then

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had to basically say, we wish
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it was just so ridiculous that all
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who who created a created a tone
that this guy was Hitler, and my

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god, who wouldn't kill Hitler to
to save to save millions and millions of

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lives? And then there's say,
oh, well, you know, we

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hope Hitler gets better. It's it's
it's it's doing two different things, setting

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a tone that this guy is Hitler
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shot. I find it, well, I think funny. I think the

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comparisons to Hitler are relative to early
Hitler. I don't think anybody is you're

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you're splitting hair saying this is early
Hitler. Well, I mean, I

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think with the comparisons are his strategy
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terms of gaining power. I don't
think there are people are saying he's killed

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six million twos. We all know
that that's still its strategy and gaining power

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is very similar to how Hitler gained
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argue is that. Yeah, it's
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first of all, to say that
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this is early Hitler. Listen,
for eight years I have heard people call

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this man Hitler and a tyrant and
a threat to democracy. There they sowed

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the seeds of this shooting. They
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and then when somebody actually pulls the
trigger, they're like, oh, I'm

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really sorry he got shot. You're
like, no, I don't believe it.

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but I think a lot of people, a lot of people set the tone.

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Did you ever compare him to Hitler? You just did recently? Uh?

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I no. I think he has
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But I didn't call him Hitler like
JD. Vance did. And Vance Vance

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pulled that one back, uh a
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other folks on the left never did. So do you believe that that the

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media who's been calling him a tyrant
and Hitler and people like you who've been

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comparing him to Hitler bear any sort
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not, of course not. There's
a sick a sick young kid who who

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knows what what is? Uh,
you know what his reasoning was, But

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a sick young kid did that.
He bears the responsibility. So setting the

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tone, do you think it was
wise to constantly compare this man to Hitler?

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I don't know. It don't depends
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mean, if somebody's saying, yeah, he killed killed millions of people,

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of course not that would be silly. But if you wanted to say,

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well, it's strategy to get the
power by blaming other people, you know,

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through nationalism, well yeah, that's
a similar strategy. So yeah,

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and that's the same strategy from socialists
who continue to blame problems to the wealthy

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or the white people or a systematic
racism. You know, they're they're blaming

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other people and doing the same sort
of power trip. It's not I'm not

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listen, I'm not a I'm not
a Trump, I'm not a Trump fan,

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but it is it's amazing to see
how many people from the left are

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now stepping back from their attacks,
the personal attacks on Trump as as a

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death spot. Well, would you
have preferred that people like me would say,

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damn, I wish say that he'd
just hit him it right in the

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head and killed him. Would you
prefer us to say that? Yeah?

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I think I would. I think
I would because it would be honest,

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because I think there's a whole bunch
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that. Do you disagree with that? I would never wish somebody getting shot.

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whole bunch of people out there who
wish that he was killed during that assassination?

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I would be happy if he died
tonight. I didn't ask you let

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me try it again for a third
time. Do you, Mike, think

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that there are a whole lot of
Trump hating people out there who would have

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been happy if he was killed during
that assassination attempt. I'm sure there are

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people out there like that. I'm
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including Jack Black's partner in a group
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state legislator who said, oh,
look at this sympathy for the devil.

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You know, I think I think
there's a ton Now we can't know us

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in people's minds, but we can't
take the words that they've been using for

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the last eight years and and project
some of that. Sure, but but

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we don't know. You don't know, and I don't know. So there's

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no sense in really debating that,
I guess. No, I think there's

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a lot of sense in debating it
because it is interesting how the language has

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changed after the assassination attempt and how
it really puts it really puts Trump haters

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in in a bizarre spot. After
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they really can't call him hitler.
I think I think it's just showing that

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people have some compassion and that when
they when they talk about comparing him to

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suck to some despot, it's not
necessarily on the exact same level. So

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I think I think you're I think
you're stretching it. Then you're just trying

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to create some good radio get it. No, I don't think that's it

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at all. I truly believe many
many Trump haters would have liked to see

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this guy dead. All right,
Bye, that's what you believe. Great,

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don't put me in that, I
guess. Is my point. You

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compared him to hit that, and
I just you compared him to Hitler,

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and that comparison brings certain certain consequences. Yeah, there, there might compare

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you to Hitler if I wanted to. I can compare anybody to Hitler.

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Sure what, But when it's done
on mass as a way to scare people,

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you know, there, it's amazing
that no one is taking responsibility for

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for this. Yes, crazed kid
did this, but you can't tell me

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there was there was a that there
was that no one set the stage for

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it was. It was not a
surprise, It was not Was it a

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surprise that someone was going to take
a shot at Trump? No? Really,

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why was it not a surprise?
The reporting is is that he also

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googled up potentially Biden. You're very
good at answering questions. I didn't ask

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why wasn't it a surprise to people
that Trump was shot? Well, we

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have more guns in the nation than
we have people, so it's easy to

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take a shot at him if you
wanted to. Really, that's what you

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want to go with. It was
easy. So you so when it took

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from uh, twenty year old kid? Did it? Indeed? Indeed?

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So? So that's that was it. It's just because there's more guns,

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toy. Do you feel a little
ashamed of trying to push one of your

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issues gun control? As as the
reason for this. This gun was purchased

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legally and it was taken by dude. Dude, I own guns, so

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I'm not. Gun control isn't an
issue for me. You asked me if

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it was, you know, you
asked me how difficult it was. It's

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not difficult. Of course, lots
of people are crazy and lots of that

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wasn't. That wasn't really the question. Let's let's try this again. People

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weren't surprised by the assassination attempt because
the culture against Donald Trump has been so

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vicious and vitriolic that it's set a
stage that we all we all weren't surprised

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when this happened. It wasn't.
It wasn't like Reagan getting shot. It

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wasn't. I don't none of us
expected George w to get shot. But

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I think a lot of us were
not at all surprised because of the tone

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set against Trump that something like this
was going to happen. Well, look,

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our history states that there are crazy
people that try to assassinate our president.

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That means that's clear. And so
whether it's it's more likely that Trump

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or somebody else would get shot,
I don't. It's beyond it doesn't matter.

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It happened. It happened many times. So why would you even worry

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about it? Why are you thinking
that? Yeah, I know what you're

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trying to say that the rhetoric that
the mainstream media and people like me create

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some kind of a victorol of people
that go shoot Trump. Come on,

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you don't believe that the victory all
from the mainstream media and people like you

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had any bearing in this. I
don't, Okay, I think he was

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a crazy kid. He's a crazy
kid. Man, he's a crazy kid.

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And and also, yeah, there
was an opportunity there, But we

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weren't surprised. You weren't surprised.
At least we both can agree that there

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are many people who wanted to see
him dead. And I think a lot

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of people were saying, in the
privacy of their own homes and privacy over

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over a few beers, if only
that bullet was just a little farther over.

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Not you, of course, not
you. Thanks for the call,

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Mike. Three O three seven one
three eight two five five. I'm John

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kelderic keep it here six point thirty
k how and now back to the Dan

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Kapla Show podcast. One of the
worst lyrics ever JFK blown away? What

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else do I have to say?
There is no question that Trump derangement syndrome

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has dialed up the rhetoric so much
that none of us were surprised that someone

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took a shot at at Donald Trump. Yep, people have tried to kill

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president. It's it's not that unusual. But there's no question in my mind

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that when you constantly compare a guy
to Hitler as a as a tactic to

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scare people, it means that people
want to see him dead. That's,

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you know, the great question.
You have the time machine and you could

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strangle Hitler in his crib? Would
you do so? I hope so?

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

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talk in for Dan Caplis. I'm
John Kelder. Let's go down to the

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springs and talk to David. Hey, David, glad to have you.

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Hey, how are you there?
Man? I'm great coeople. Think.

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First off, First off, I'm
going to invest my own money. I'm

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going to find a virtual drug testing
program so you can test these people that

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call you my god. Really,
that guy was just down there. Yeah,

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he's If he gets any more dumber, they're going to have to do

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a study on him. Man,
I couldn't believe it. He must be

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Kamala. I think he's Kamala's nephew. Anyway, why do you think I

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want to dive in that? Just
real fast. We don't have much time.

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But what makes them dumb? What
makes them crazy? Because two things.

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First off, he's a typical liberal
because you asked him the question that

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any that a ten year old would
have understood, and he has to come

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back with it answer not even close. And he keeps trying to push it

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back on you when you're right,
and you haven't. You haven't taken one

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side. You're being a neutral guy. Now. People who love Trump hate

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me. People who hate Trump hate
me because I'm not. I'm yeah,

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I'm not a hardcore trumpy, but
you know I would much prefer Trump as

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president then Biden. You know what's
sad is the young kids are the ones

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that are going to get the worst
out of I'm older, year older.

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These young kids, I don't know
what their future is going to be,

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like my nephews, my kids,
I don't know, and that's what scares

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me. My god, you're kidding
me. Anyway, Thanks and keep up

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the good work. Man, Well
done, well, thank you very much.

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Will do so. In about three
minutes, the President will go on

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a national speech, which I don't
think many people are going to watch,

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and he's going to say why he's
he's dropping out of the race, and

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it's going to be for the good
of the country. It's going to be

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to help Kamala. There'll be a
lot of passing the torch to a younger

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generation, and Kamala is the one
who can do that. It will be

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deflection after deflection after deflection, which
you know, of course, is going

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to happen instead of the honesty of
listen. I'm old. I've been pressured

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and pressured and pressured, and finally
I have come to the conclusion I don't

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have a path to victory and therefore
I'm not gonna run for president. Wouldn't

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that just be refreshing, wouldn't it
be refreshing? Just? Yeah, I

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was convinced I can't win. That's
why I'm not running, because I can't

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win. Hey, check out the
Independence Institute. Go to thinkfreedom dot org,

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sign up for my newsletter. I'll
talk to you tomorrow and keep it

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