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This is Gary and Shannon and you're
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Gary and Shannon Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Okay, so there's

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a lot going on. We're going
to follow along if there are any updates

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about this cybersecurity firm crowd Strike.
This widespread IT outage around the world,

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and I mean effected all kinds of
industries. Probably airports and airlines are the

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one that a lot of people are
getting that. It's getting a lot of

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coverage because of the thousands of flights
that have had to be counseled or delayed.

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Some banks were knocked offline for a
while. Even media outlets had to

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stop broadcasting because of this massive disruption. Again crowd Strike. The security firm

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said the issue believed to be behind
the outage was not a security incident or

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a cyber attack. Apparently it was
an update that went wrong. So we'll

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see if there are any specific updates
to that as we get through the rest

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of the show. Well, we
are on Biden Watch. Thirty Congress Democrats

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have called on President Biden to exit
the race. He has put out a

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statement this morning. If somebody has
put out a statement on his behalf this

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morning is probably how I should say
it. Said he would be back campaigning

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next week. Here's the quote.
I look forward to getting back on the

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campaign trail next week to continue exposing
the threat of Donald Trump's Project twenty twenty

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five agenda while making the case for
my own record and the vision that I

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have for America, one where we
save our democracy, protect our rights and

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freedoms, and create opportunity for everyone. He is still self isolating after a

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COVID being diagnosed with it with the
COVID, but there are so many reports

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varying, and I don't know who's
putting these out. I don't know how

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the machine works. But there was
a report yesterday that he's already decided to

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get out of the race and that
they're just trying to cross Te's and dot

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ies the Democrats on what that open
cann would look like. NBC News how

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To report that members of Joe Biden's
family have discussed what an exit may look

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like, according to two people they
say familiar with the discussions. Yeah,

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and I think that's probably I mean, you mentioned the thirty members of Congress

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now that have come out publicly.
I'm sure there are probably others that are

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privately saying that, and the family
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We had the highest profile Democrats outside
of Biden come out and say we

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got to find something else. Now
the family is the innermost circle around him.

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Apparently that may be changing their tone. The overall tone they say of

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the conversations has been that any exit
plan should put the party in the best

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position to beat Donald Trump well while
also being worthy of the more than five

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decades he has served the country in
elected office. And I wish they'd listen

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to the show because I think you
have the perfect ending to this story yesterday

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when you said that what would be
the nice scenario is that he comes out

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and says, my family, my
grandkids have come to me. They want

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to spend time with me. I
want to have whatever time left I have

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on this mortal coil and devote it
to my family after five decades devoting service

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to the country. I think that's
the best way out of it. But

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are you talking about he steps down
from the presidency. He's not going to

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step down from the presidency, but
he would I think he would step down

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from the campaign trail. So there
are questions about what would happen. And

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we saw those questions arise immediately after
the debate because it became evident to everybody

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that people were literally lying to our
faces about the condition that he was in.

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The question is what do you do? The only way to replace him

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at the top of the ticket at
this stage is if he steps down himself.

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You can't vote him out because of
the primaries and the votes that he

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got for that. If he dies, or if he suffers some sort of

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a disability. That word is specifically
in the Democratic National Committee rules about this

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and what does that mean? I
mean, it's kind of subjective, isn't

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it disability? And they probably never
really defined it simply because they never thought

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they would have to use it.
So he won almost every single one of

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the four thousand plus delegates in the
Democratic Party. They're selected in large part

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because of their loyalty, their support
for chosen candidate, and then those delegates

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vote for their nominee in what would
be this virtual role call that we've told

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you about that's supposed to take place
early next month. There's two different scenarios

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about what would happen. One scenario
is before the nomination, so before the

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convention because that's when he's officially nominated
or after he's officially nominated, two different

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sets of events that would be put
into motion depending on the time to time

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there. So we'll get into that
when we come back by Gary and Shannon

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regarding who could beat Trump. Do
yourselves and all of us a favor and

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pick up with a copy of the
Constitution, because in the Constitution it says

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it goes to Kamala Harris. Okay, so you may as well you can

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bring up anybody you want, right, it may as well be a unicorn,

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because it's going to be. It
has to be Kamala Harris. Okay,

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thank you. No, it doesn't. Okay, there's nowhere in the

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Constitution of the United States of America
that explains what the Democratic Party does for

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a candidate that they don't or that
they need to replace. That's not a

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constitutional issue. The parties come up
with their own rules for this sort of

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thing. That's why, for example, there's a different number of delegates.

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There's only two thousand some odd delegates
in the Republican Party. There's four thousand

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plus in the Democratic par ps.
Remember to follow the money, Remember how

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the donor froze that ninety million dollars
that was pledged to Biden in the Democrats,

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they froze that. Now the rules
do say that the money would go

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to Kamala Harris if he dropped out, but they have not unfrozen it.

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Also, that money is in limbo
Democratic Party rules, not constitution, right.

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But I like that you worked a
unicorn into the show. That's always

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a fun, happy putting a positive
spin on that. That's what I do.

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That's what I do. I am
a fun bunny. Michael sent us

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a message, Geez, you guys
might have to start screening the talkback because

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that moron referencing the constitution. Michael, you think we don't screen the talkback?

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Do you know what you would hear
if we didn't scream the talkback?

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Oh my goodness, these are the
ones that we do choose to play.

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Hey, Gary and Channon, I
get that you guys think the speech was

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redundant and it's nothing new, But
maybe we need to go back to what

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we had because the last three years
with mister potato head has not worked out

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very well for any of us.
So I say stop over analyzing and being

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critical of Trump and realize he's the
best man for the job. That's that's

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the choice we have. I know, I get it. Listen and you

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can have political arguments. That's what
we do in America perfectly fine. We

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we also kind of rip everybody.
I mean, no one's really safe.

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Yeah, yeah, you know,
I would hope, And I don't know

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if it's is that the better version
or should we be should we be nice

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to everyone? I don't think that
it is human to be nice to everybody

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and to find no fault in political
speeches. I said to my daughter yesterday,

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do not get pregnant. No,
that's I feel like I've said that

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before, but this was a new
one. I said, do not love

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politics right as a command. Don't
see them as rock star. Yeah,

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you know. It's like you can
say the same for football players. Do

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you don't see these people as your
heroes? You don't know who these people

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are. Yes, they're good at
what they do, all right? Or

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you know, politicians are very skilled
to get to the level where we hear

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their speeches. They're very skilled at
what they do. But don't make them

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your Jesus. Don't make them your
rock star. Yeah, because you're gonna

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be disappointed. They're human being.
They're human. So we're talking about Okay,

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what is the possibility if Joe Biden
drops out voluntarily, something medical happens,

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he suffers a disability, whatever it
is. If he ends his campaign

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before this virtual role call comes in
August, then the pledged delegates could cast

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their ballots for a new candidate.
The more than thirty nine hundred pledged delegates

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meet at the convention and cast their
first ballot. Oh my gosh, this

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would be so much fun to watch
unfold. You couldn't, I mean,

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and it's the way they used to
do it. Sure, but it was

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also a time when the conventions weren't
covered on TV, you know, wall

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to wall. I was talking to
my husband about this this morning. You

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know what makes me excited about this
is the idea that you could, as

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an American, as a voter,
choose the candidate. How long has the

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beence we've been able to choose the
candidate. The machines that are in place

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RNC, the DNC, they have
thrown candidates down our throats for our whole

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lifetimes. It would be nice to
happen, And it's why I end up

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voting for the third party candidate so
often because I want to be able to

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have a say and who it is, and that's just not the way the

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machines have worked. This is like
you said, how it used to be

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a democracy. If Biden again were
to get out of the convention after the

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convention adjourned, get out of the
run, I should say, the race

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after the convention adjourned, than the
DNC chair currently, Jamie Harrison, would

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have to confer with top congressional Democrats
and the Democratic Governors Association about replacing them

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again. All this is spelled out
in the party rules for the Democrats,

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not the American constitution. Harrison would
then report to the committee, which is

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authorized to fill the vacancy again,
that is if if he steps down after

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the convention. So the clear leader
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who would take over for him,
would be Kamala Harris. But there are

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and I saw floated yesterday the idea
that Pete Bodhagich would be named as a

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potential running mate for her. If
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Newsome have reportedly been ruled out as
her running mate. Where did that come

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from? Where did that report?
Come from. That's a good question.

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I'm not sure. Now this is
where the fund could come in. We

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talked about the first ballot at the
convey right, if he gets out this

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weekend. Okay, so you have
the first ballot, and if one candidate

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gets the majority of the delegates,
then they're the candidate. That's not going

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to happen. Like I said,
everyone's going to be eating each other.

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If no candidate wins the majority of
the delegates on that first ballot, then

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the seven hundred plus super delegates are
allowed to vote. The delegates now at

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this point numbering forty six hundred plus, continue to hold votes until one presidential

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candidate wins the majority of delegates,
and the behind the scenes jockeying and the

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wharring and the knobslobbery would just be
next level. It would be something I

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think, as I started the show
by saying, we've never reached this level

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of political disarray before, that would
absolutely be the topper. Yes, that's

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the case. It was The Hill
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would not be interested in being a
vice presidential running mate for Kamala Harris,

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for her, for her now,
but there are other names. There are

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other potential Andy Basher is one of
us. Your Kentucky's governor, the North

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Carolina governor Roy Cooper is one of
them. And then Mark Kelly's name has

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been thrown around. Also. Mark
Kelly is the name that I read about

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this morning having the best chances to
beat Trump, the Democrat that could beat

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Trump because Mark Kelly tends to be
a more moderate Democrat. Yes, he

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comes from the state of Arizona,
which is a battleground state. It's going

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to be an important state. He
has military service obviously, was an astronaut

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Navy pilot, married to Gabby Gifford's
the congresswoman who was shot in the attack

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several years ago. That was already
thirteen years his parents, his twin,

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or what happened with the space He
spent like a year in space and he

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came back shorter. I don't remember
which one is shorter, but yes,

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they did get a That's so irrelevant, but that's what I remember from him.

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But I'll tell you what, There
are people who would change their vote

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based on that. No, that's
how dumb we are as a people.

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I guarantee you there'd be people.
I don't like people shrinking. You know

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what I was remembering is when we
talked to Mark Saltzman yesterday about tech Talk

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and he was talking about the new
phone coming out and he's like, yeah,

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and one of the features of the
phone is you get to draw a

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picture on it and put a hat. And I was like, we are

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such a dumb people. We want
to just draw pictures on our phones.

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Now, that's where we are.
That's where we are. Is oh,

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I want to draw a picture using
my finger on my phone and then have

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a mechanism for it to become three
D like Jesus, Mary and Joseph China.

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Come get us. Take it.
We're right for the picking. Take

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it. We broke it. Love
you guys. You took up with the

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politics. Let's go back to honkers
Friday. Come oh, that's all right,

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it's a Honker's Friday. Let's just
talk about Gary walking around in his

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speedo around his pool. The kids
are gone, the wife's out of town.

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Come on, gay, let's talk
about it. I watch every well

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not every day, but a lot. You know how to rock it out?

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Baby wa good wow, big son, Jerry, big big sond thank

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you. Wow. So wait,
hold on, i'd flag that one and

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maybe reach out to law enforcement.
Why stud Horse, Daddy Stallion. I

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got no problem with that. You
like you like men cheering for you to

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be walking around your pool and your
speedo. Nice to be appreciated. That's

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Gary and Shannon. This is Mark
in San Diego. Just a quick question.

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Shannon strikes me as the type of
lady that tells her husband to pull

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her finger on the rag. Can
I get a confirmation or denial on that?

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Have you ever done that? I
love you guys. First of all,

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I don't expel gas. Second of
all, if I did, I

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wouldn't be able to do it on
command. Third of all, if I

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could, I would do it all
the time. All right, a little

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bit of politics. If Joe Biden
were to drop out, I think it

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would be really interesting if the Dems
nominated Joe Manchin to replace him on the

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ticket. He's centrist enough to get
Republicans to switch over that aren't interested in

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voting for Trump again. And really
the only thing that's holding Mansion back from

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being nominated is the fact that he
could never get through a primary, and

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this is a way to bypass the
primary. I am with you. Former

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Senator from West Virginia, a pretty
pretty red state. But he is a

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Democrat, or at least he was. He he's one of the those guys

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that would never, to his point, would never make it through the Democrat

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primary process, although would appeal to
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even moderate Republicans because of who he
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that. So I had a question
about the timing of Gavin Newsom signing the

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bill that was far left here in
California. Yeah, as the Gender Identity

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Informating Informing the Parents' Bill. Yes, okay, And I thought, why

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the hell would he do that if
he's running for president? But then I

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thought, because I like my fan
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Then I thought, well, if
it's an open convention fan fiction music,

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Okay, if it's an open convention, to get past that first ballot,

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you've got to appeal to all the
super lefties exactly, You've got to

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appeal You've got to go far left
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it's men find some sort of middle
ground to get to jail. Yes,

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And it's weedy enough that I think
only we're talking about that bill in California,

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but it would play out well with
the progressives, and then because it's

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so weedy, it kind of falls
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off against Trump, you can appeal
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Sure, So that's why I think
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on the Republican side of it,
Nikki Haley was one of those people who,

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at least in the polls early on, she pulled much better against Joe

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Biden than did Donald Trump, to
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lead in a couple of poles over
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Biden. Now, does that mean
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Trump? Yeah? Because they are. Yeah. Does this mean the Democrats

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are beholden to whoever's next in line
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the one more guaranteed to challenge Donald
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think Joe Manchin. I don't know
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but he is a guy who would
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and he do really well in the
swing states. He's not one hundred years

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old old. He's seventy six.
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it's now or never for Joe Manchin. The thing is, would he drop

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his independent label to get back into
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be a Democrat to run in the
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of those two. So yesterday we
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out and talking about Biden stepping aside. Heavy hitters being Barack Obama, Nancy

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Pelosi. Of course, not publicly, but privately, everyone in the know

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says that they've had conversations about him
stepping aside, and that Pelosi actually showed

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her math, went to Biden with
the math of how he's not going to

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beat Trump. Now, she's deploying
people, She's deploying her soldiers there in

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Congress. Most recently, Representative Zoe
Lofgren, Democrat, Californian, respected voice

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on Capitol Hill, sent Biden a
letter last night calling for him to drop

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out of the race. She is
a close ally of Nancy Pelosi. There

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are now three people that served on
that House committee investigating the January sixth attack

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that have called on Biden to step
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as I am aware that you have
been provided data indicating that you, in

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all likelihood would lose the race for
president, I will not go through it

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again. Simply put, your candidacy
is on a trajectory to lose a White

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House and potentially impact crucial House and
Senate races down ballot. It's for these

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reasons I urge you to step aside
from our party's nomination and allow another Democratic

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candidate to compete and beat Donald Trump. There is an interesting article in the

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New York Time today that there's a
handful of them to actually do a pretty

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good job of detailing the pressure that
is mounting against President Biden to step down,

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and one of them, the headline
is President Biden is still bitter about

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feeling pushed out of the twenty sixteen
race in favor of Hillary Totally, totally,

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and again it's the same chip on
his shoulder that Bernie Sanders has exactly.

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And I was just going to say
that because it's These are examples of

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when the party feels like they're gonna
crown, or they already have in mind

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who they're going to crown, as
opposed to the legitimate, open process of

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allowing members of the party to determine
who should lead them into the next whatever.

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Isn't this why we left England?
We don't have coronations here. This

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is America of the people, by
the people, for the people. We

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are the people. We should pick
the leaders, not the powers that be,

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because we are America. Sorry,
it's Friday. I don't have as

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much fervor worked up. What are
you going to do this weekend all alone?

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Are you going to walk around in
a stato around your pool? Probably?

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I mean, I don't know if
you call do you even call it

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a speedo anymore? It's not a
speedo. It's a budgie, smuggler budgie.

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That's what the Australian skulls like.
There's a little bird, nevermnth m

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a little bird. If it looks
like a bird, you need to see

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somebody. So, uh, the
dog is learning to socialize, and he's

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not fully vaccinated yet, so I
can't take him everywhere I want to,

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but I can take him to some
specific places and try to just get him

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used to noises and people and stuff
going on. So you're going to socialize

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the dog this weekend? Yeah?
Wearing pants? You're gonna be wearing pants

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or shorts. Oh me, yes, I'll be wearing pants. The dog

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won't be wearing pants. Do you
even own a budgy smuggler? No,

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no, I do have. I
do have swim trunks like workout but they're

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they're like, uh, thigh cut. They look like bike shorts, but

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they're speedo swim trunks. That those
things don't compute. They're they're thigh length,

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but they're speedo shorts. Oh you
like there's a thing inside. No,

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no, there's swim trunks. But
racing trunks. Is that that makes

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sense? No, racing trunks.
What are you an Olympia Now, well,

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that's that's what those that's everybody wears
those now when they're when they're racing

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swim trunks. All right, Why
why is this? Portland's mayor has declared

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a city emergency on truck. Yeah, that's why I said, Oh,

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you wear that in public? If
I'm at the pool, at the gym,

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yes, I wear those. There's
hardly anybody there. Ever, some

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of the city's computer systems, including
ones used in the nine to one one

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dispatch operations, all crashed as a
result of the crowd strikeoutages. They're in

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Portland, so city officials have emphasized
that the dispatch services did come back online

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at about six this morning, but
some city services, again in Portland,

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Oregon, continue to be out throughout
the morning. Don't she feel self conscious

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in those compared to the other people
in the pool with me? Absolutely not,

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okay, And I'm not judging them
because hey, they're working out.

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It's just that people knowing your whole, like you know, my eyes are

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up here just so you know,
I'm just saying, like you know.

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Vice President Kamala Harris is set this
afternoon to address a network of major donors.

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This is a short notice situation.
Two people invited to the call of

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time. To the New York Times, she will speak to the group at

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this time of as The New York
Times calls it extraordinary turmoil and the Democratic

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Party. Is she the one that
they need out there calming people down?

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It says. It is unclear whether
Miss Harris plans to encourage the restive donor

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base to calm down or deliver some
other message. What she's gonna do is

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say, I'm the guy. How
dare they unfrees your money and give it

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to me? I don't know if
that how? He Yeah, Yi,

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what is she going to say that
would calm them and have them divert their

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war chest to her? How about
this something along the lines of listen,

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I know that the real Clear Politics
average has Joe Biden trailing Trump by three

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points, but I only trail him
by two. That doesn't do it.

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And then Mike drop like she just
walks off, walks off the stage.

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Maybe she wears racing trunks. Why
is this a thing? I didn't realize

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that you were so concerned about that. I'm not. It's not my modesty

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in public. I just think that
if I had genitals, do you not

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that were visible external external? Yes, go on, I wouldn't want to

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have them in front of strangers.
They're okay. There's a couple of things

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I agree with you. You get
over it, Okay. I did it

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when I was swimming in high school, for example, which is a very

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difficult time to have your body on
display for all to appreciate that. You

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get over it. It's not a
big deal. Yeah, And they're black,

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so, I mean black shorts are
hide some sins. Perhaps that a

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clear or not clear. It's not
sinful. It's not sinful to have genitals.

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No, no, but I'm saying
God made you the way that he

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wanted to make you. You're less
likely to see the k nooks crannies in

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black then you would if you if
I were like a light color, making

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it worse. Good morning, it's
them longa Hey, let's talk about the

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fact that Shannon doesn't carry a purse. Shannon carries a piece of luggage.

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True story. Also, great job
on Saturday, Gary, Unfortunately you had

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to come in. Not a fan
of the former president, but I'm also

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not a fan of people getting shot
nobody. I'll bless you guys, and

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God bless the United train wreck of
America. Are you going to come in

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tomorrow? No, Hey, guys, I'm home with a VID right now.

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But I don't know why. When
you talked about pulos playing people at

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that of the Wicked Witch, opening
up the windows and monkeying the flying monkey,

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I had the same adventures flying pretty
oh, then dancers clacking. That's

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awful, and that was a very
patriotic speech of the people for the people.

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We are the people. But you've
forgot one very important point. Soilent

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green is people. I haven't heard
of soilent green reference in years. I

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thought you were not getting the reference, but you got it. It's just

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an old reference. Yes, okay, you've been listening to the Gary and

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Shannon Show. You can always hear
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