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I much prefer to brew my owntea, make my own lemonade, and
then mix the two. Or whenyou go to a restaurant and they're just
like, what would you like todrink and you're just feeling like you need
something super refreshing. This asked forthe old army and they'll put that in
a nice togg glass, throw alemon on there. Bam hard to beat
that, am I right? Mmhmmm mm hm. Yo, what primary

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was yesterday? I remember us talkingabout that. I remember you mentioning that
talking about the couple of the storylines. Oh, yeah, they did it.
A full pie is one hundred percent, you know what I mean?
Like the pie is one hundred percent. You can cut the pie into slices

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of pie and make different amounts ofthat, but they all have to equal
one hundred percent, right, Well, one hundred percent is the number of
registered voters in the state of Iowa. Let's pretend how many people on a
percentage basis, what percent of registeredIowa voters ballots in yesterday's primary elections?
Seven point seven percent? Eight percent? Oh, I was close eight percent,

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which is slightly above expectations. Right, It's like, yeah, I
mean it's basically the same. Soundslike a celebration is in order. No,
no, no. If you wouldhave got to double datas I might
I might have, I might have. You want to talk about disappointing,
You want to talk about disappointing?Holy g willickers if you want to know
what happened over there? And Italk about this? What did I learn?

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Is anyone excited about anything besides thepresidential race. Now here's a couple
of disclaimers. First of all,it depended on where you lived, right,
because you can't vote on all ofthe House of Representative races. You
can only vote on the ones thatare in your county. For instance,
Iowa District two's Republican primary. Districttwo is northeastern Iowa. Both parties had

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an uncontested race, so it didn'tmatter. You couldn't like you couldn't show
up to vote in that, youknow what I mean, Like you weren't
making a decision on that. Nobodywas like super duper pumped excited kind of
thing. Right, There were alot of uncontested races. There were Republican
and Democratic races that generally speaking forthe state legislature that doesn't move the needle

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for a lot of these people,even though it has a lot to do
with the way that they are representedin the state legislature. So I don't
know what the story eventually is goingto be on why Americans generally just are
apprehensive about learning about their own localLike how many you know? Like this
is us, you know how Likeyou listening in the car driving around right
now, could you name the amountof city council members that are even in

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your city? You know what Imean? Like I'm guessing that number people
I don't know, And that's It'sokay, it's okay. I'm not trying
to shame anybody. I'm just likethese these races still matter, like they
still make a difference. The bigrace that we were paying attention to is
that color. Remember that color wewere talking about the color of the day
yesterday that we we mixed together witha couple of other colors. Oh yeah,

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yeah. We melted down a bluecrayon and then we melted a red
crayon right on top of it.Yeah yeah, and then like mixed it
up to see what would happen.Added some milk. No, we didn't
do that, Oh, we didn'tdo that. No, no, no,
no, we didn't eat crowns whereI grew up. I know that
you eat ate crowns when you grewup. Crowns? Do I say that

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word? Weird? Well? Youknow some you know, some people say
milk. How do you say milk? Milk? Okay, so we say
milk the same milk. Some peoplesay malk You ever heard people say milk?
Yeah, you'll hear it, somethinglike John Malco, like John Malkovich.
Yeah, what want you on ashorthand basis with that actor? What's
going on? No? They wanteda fresh cold glass of milk? Uh

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huh? Weird? Yeah? Whatdid I say? Oh? I say
crayons? Crown, Well, Cram, you're doing it the quick way.
Crown. I respect that crown andI never ate any as a child,
although I did have a crayon thatwas the color. It was color mac
and cheese. I resisted the urgewhy would they name that to give it

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to children? And like basically darethem to give it a go, right,
crown, cran we can separate itout if you want. It's like
it's not coming out. The Kingof the Hill episode with Peggy when she's
saying happiness. What does she say, Well, she has to just keep
going anyway. I mentioned this becausewell what color did that turn out?

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Oh? Purple? Yeah it waspurple. Well, District three is a
purple colored district there, purple.And you know Zach Nunn has that seat.
He's a Republican. Yeah, thatwas uncontested. But the Democrats that
this is Pol County, right likePoul County, the Des Moines metropolitan area,
most of which is in Poul County. In Dallas County. You know

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how many people voted in Pol Countyyesterday in this race, about seventeen thousand.
There's over five hundred thousand people inthe Mooy metropolitan politan area. You're
telling me that only twenty thousand orso of them are Democrats. Absolutely not,
like I would say a majority ofthem are actually Democrats. Not a
big majority, but a small majority. It was it was a mess.

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It was a mess. Dallas County. You want to know how many people
in Dallas County barely twenty two hundred, like, not twenty two thousand,
twenty two hundred, and those werethe two biggest, barely a couple hundred,
and most of the other locales throughoutthe county. So if you're looking
at if you're Lenan Becom who wonthis, you want to know how much
he won by hmmm, you wantto guess. Remember we told this was

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the guy that had one point fourmillion dollars raised by April first, and
Melissa Vine had only one hundred andtwenty thousand raised. How much do you
think a spoiler for you, LennanBecom did win, but you want to
know about how much he won by? How many percent points? Yeah?
Oh, like four or five percentover the other? Like how many did
he get overall? Mean? Yeah, I just guess that that'd be easier,

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right, I don't crunch the masslike thirty six percent, eighty four
oh eighty four, Oh he goteighty four percent. Yeah, she only
got fifteen point eight Oh and there'sonly one other. Yeah, I didn't
really think that one through before eight. It's okay, it's okay. You
made it sound really impressive, whichis what I preferred think. There we
go. Yeah, I was onthe right side of that exactly. Yeah.

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Yeah, but again, only liketwenty four twenty fourish thousand people actually
voted in this thing, which isit's disappointing, which lends me to believe,
right, this is a purple district. If you're in a district that
has the moint in it and roughlyyou know five hundred thousand people that you're
going to be able to draw mostof them to be Democrats in a district

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which extends to Southern Iowa, whichis sparsely populated the last couple of rungs
of Central or Southern Iowa because theyhave all the you know, the counties
kind of line up there, theyhave tears right, well, those bottom
two are sparsely populated in a lotof areas. This point in Paul County
itself can really carry enough votes toactually win. And that's the thing.

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Now with this District three, there'sno council bluffs to draw on because Potawatamee
County is now in District four,so you really only have the one metropolitan
area, if you will, Andonly twenty three twenty four thousand ish people
were interested in coming out and votingin this thing. Like that's that to
me, that's you can't tell methat a lot of people in this district

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are excited about Lenan becom. Nowthere's still five months ish, right,
like right, at five months betweennow and the election in November, and
if on the I I would say, and this is why I talk about
this because purple districts, you seethe kind of excitement that maybe people are
turning out for ahead of the actualelection. It was a little bit of
a weird deal in District two forNebraska when you're talking about that specific district

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because Don Bacon was the incumbent,or still is the incumbent, and he
is taking on a couple of challenges, including Dan Frye, and he actually
like there was actually a race there. It felt like there was a race
there. There was a lot ofdiscourse, a lot of conversations, a
lot of people talking around Omaha andthe surrounding area that you know, Dan
Frey is a much more conservative candidatethat we needed to have represent us in

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district too. He ended up winningcomfortably Don Bacon. But we can't really
get a good idea of exactly whatthe Democrats are going to look like because
there was no reason for them toshow up because there was no contest.
Vargas running unopposed, it was anuncontested race. Well, this wasn't uncontested

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for the Democrats. We got toget a good look at exactly what kind
of excitement maybe Lenan Beicom is goingto give them come November, and now
they got five months to put thepedal to the medal. Because whether people
knew about this or whether people justignored it, we didn't ignore it.
I was talking about it for threedays now. Remember you can vouch for
me, Matt. I talked aboutthe Iowa primary over and over again.

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Right, yeah, if you werelistening to me, you knew this thing
was going on. Where are thepeople in Iowa? Why didn't they go
out and vote? Can they comeup with enough people in the next five
months to get people excited to votefor Lennan Becom and flip that seat.
The numbers here do not make mefeel that way. Alas, maybe it
would have been different if that wouldhave been a competitive race. By the
way, the other two races thatwe were paying attention to, Marionette Miller

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Meeks in District one, had alot of the same questions about her that
Don Bacon faced in Nebraska. Shewas one of the people that would refuse
to vote in. Jim Jordan,as the Speaker of the House last year,
said she put on our social media. I'm not going to get bullied.
She has been questioned by a lotof people in conservative circles in southeastern
and eastern Iowa for not being conservativeenough, but she was able to win

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fifty six to forty four percent overa much more conservative candidate and higher turnout
in that district as well, whichis crazy to me. But again,
Democrats just weren't excited, I guessto go to the polls and then District
four, which is very conservative,that's northwestern Iowa. Democrats never win that.
Randy Fienstrow was able to fin offKevin Virgil a challenger sixty to forty

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ish percent, So no real surprises, but still something interesting to keep in
mind. Voter turnout a total ofeight percent or so of registered voters in
the state of Iowa, and againyou have to kind of think about it.
Some of these races uncontested, Iunderstand, and thirty five ish percent
of people thirty to thirty five percentor so of people are not registered with

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a specific political party in Iowa.These are the kind of races that probably
are not going to make people superexcited to like, oh yeah, I'm
going to jump in with the Democratsthis time. Oh, I'm going to
jump in with the Republicans this timeto take part in the primary. A
lot of people not doing that,So something to keep in mind as far
as that's concerned. It is twotwenty. We'll come back. If you
have thoughts on this, you canemail Emory at kfab dot com. Boy,

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a lot of people are emailing meabout my pronunciation of a certain word,
and we'll have to address that nexton news Ready at eleven to ten
KFAB. I need a little caffeineand I didn't want to bring coffee.
Marcus out West says, I prefera John Day. Have you heard of
this? I'm sure almost at leastone form of alcohol, Arnold Palmer with
vodka in it. Ah. Idon't think I could drink that at work.

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Although what if we did John Dailyday, you and me and we
just we made our own like inour free time. No, like you
and me did that on the airone day. I think that well for
a couple of reasons. First off, I do not like vodka one bit.
I avoid it like the plague.Why it tastes like hand sanitizer,

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and I just well, is handsanitizer exactly that's my problem with it.
And also I tend to just Ijust don't feel well. I don't know,
it's just you're drinking too much ofit. Let me put it this
way. If I have a couplelike vodka cranberries the night before the next

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day, awful night. But it'snot that way for maybe another drink,
you know. So, I don'tknow if it's the you do a red
bulling or what. No, I'venever bought a red bull as my jam.
I The only thing I can reallytolerate vodka and is with cranberry.
That's that's kind of my brand.Bryan. Yeah, CRAYM crayon cram.

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Yeah, it's actually it's crayon berry. Actually, you find the right color
of crayon and they usually match theflavor profile those crams, yes, crane
crams. Okay, anyway here inmy mouth. Okay, there we go.
Yeah. No, let's do dondaily day. You and me,
maybe have a couple of guests andwe just hang out. It's gonna be

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like a fun day. We decidenobody's allowed to make news, we can't
talk about the news, and thenwe make John dailies like one every forty
five minutes or something, and wejust drink for four hours and see what
happens. I will happily run theboard for you while you do that.
I think it's actually an FCC violationfor me to coperateroom alcohol and operate this

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fine machinery. FCC is like aow I, except they have to like
fill in like a different word todifferentiate notating while intoxicated, Like can't do
that, I think, so he'djust spun around in circles like instead of
doing that like I have you spinaround in circles every commercial break NonStop until
we're done. It sounds like Imight get dizzy, and I don't know.

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I'm trying to trying to think ofways to make you off your game
for that day, because I certainlywould be. Tim also emailed in tim
emails a lot. I don't alwaysread a lot of his because I don't
know what they mean, but Ican I can. I can read this
one. He says, if youdon't want to have any enjoyment for the
rest of your life, quit drinkingcoffee and start drinking tea like a sissy.
What does that mean? Tea drinkersare sissies? I mean if you

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saw the way Tim that I drinkcoffee, I mean, Matt, I
show you the concoction. It's ina blender bottle, you know, like
the stuff you usually drink your workoutfluids out of. Yeah, I do
that, Like I drink a coffeethat's like part coffee, like half coffee,
half milk and creamer. I don'tlike it black. That make me
a sissy? You think I couldtake Tim Matt? Yeah, you guys

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would have a lot of fun.I think you should take him to a
restaurant and drink some tea together andyou know, talk sports, politics,
whatever comes up. Yeah, Iregret regret asking you this. Also,
Keith says crayon not as funny asbeat Rice, but almost as ce rayon.

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I don't know what that means.Beat Rice, that's funny. Ryan
says, why do you keep sayingcrown, crown, crayon? Those are
different words? Can you tell thedifference? Crown? Yeah, crown is
spelled crown, crown, crayon isspelled cr a y O n crown.
Well, some would say tomato tomato. I think you're saying tomato tomak.

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Mike ninety nine says, I neverthought to myself, Oh, this guy
isn't from around here about you?Until I heard you pronounce mispronounced crown today.
I'm glad Matt called you out roundthese parts. Crayon or cran like
cranberry are the way we say it. Also, the main reason I'm e
mailing you is to show you aclassic YouTube skit. I'm one hundred percent
sure Matt has seen Julian Smith's mockvideo. Yes, that's what that is

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from. That's right, Yes,there you go, he says, regards
Mike ninety nine. All right,well, I guess I can add crayon
into the word the list of wordsthat I don't say properly, and I
apologize for that. I'm only human. What do you want from me?
Four h two five five, eight, eleven ten. You can call in

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at any point of the show.Got some other things in the news cycle,
including Joe Biden. Somebody's worried abouthis health. Who is it might
have a little bit more qualifications thanwe do, and we'll try to explain
that to you coming up next righthere on news Radio eleven ten. Kfab
I'm looking at some of these emailsthat were sent to me making fun of
me for saying the word wrong.Crank crown. I guys, how do

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you say? Here's another one?What the basketball team in Minnesota is called?
What timber Wolves? Okay, what'sthe last part of that? Wolves?
What's the single version of that?Wolf? Wolf? Woof woolf wolf
wolf wolf? I say that ina sentence and it comes out wolf wolf,
like, don't go over there,you never know you might run into

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a wolf. Got a problem?Would you know what I'm talking about?
Yeah? I would? Okay,wolves do wolf? J C says,
it's World Bicycle Day today. Noit's not, No, it's not.
That was like a couple of daysago. Wasn't that yesterday? Or the
day before World by Because we talkedabout it and then somebody got mad at
me. It was Monday. NationalBicycle Day was Monday? Or World Bicycle

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Day was Monday. We talked aboutthis because, uh, because I saw
that we talked about and a lotof people were saying, well, why
didn't you tell me this before?Because then I would have ridden my bike
to work or whatever. Yeah,well, good try JC. I'm gonna
email him back. That was onMonday. There it is? Okay,
so Joe Biden, we know thathis brain doesn't work so good these days.

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He's probably like me. He pronouncescray on crown. Well. Now,
a guy who's representing the state ofTexas as a Republican. His name's
Ronnie Jackson. He used to bea White House physician. Did you know
that? Did you know you coulddo that? You could be like a
White House physician and be like,Eh, I'm just going to be in
Congress now. Is that interesting?What did Marjorie Taylor Green do before she

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was in Congress? Do we knowMarjorie Taylor I'm just curious about, like
what the people have done in theirpast before they become like an elected official.
Marjorie Taylor Green, I don't know. Her dad found out of the
company and then he gave the companyor sold the company in early two thousands

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to Marjorie and her then husband,who she's no longer with. He divorced
her in twenty twenty two, bythe way, or did she divorce him.
I don't know, but yeah,and then she did that. She
was listed as the CEO of TaylorCommercial, that's a general contracting company that
dad founded, and then she steppeddown as the company's CFO in twenty eleven

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and began CrossFit training. She lookspretty fit. You can't deny that about
Marjorie. She looks pretty fit.Apparently the Atlanta Journal Constitution, by the
way, that an investigation as towhat was going on in Taylor Commercial while
she was there, and they saidshe had no physical no real physical significant
presence in the company. So there'sthat. In twenty twelve, Marjorie worked

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as a part time coach at anAlfaretta, Georgia CrossFit gym, and then
in twenty thirteen she opened CrossFit Passion, her own gym in Alpharetta, Georgia.
So anybody out there who likes togo around and talk about Bernie Sanders'
career before politics, let's go titfor tad on that one. I'm just
looking over here, you know.So she's basically the CEO of Daddy's Money.

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What she was, Yeah, andthen she said that she became politically
engaged during the Republican presidential primaries twentysixteen, didn't we all? And there
was a website called the American truthSeekers, which many believed was a conspiracy
news website that has now since defunct. But she wrote fifty nine articles blogging

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for them, and that's how shegot into politics. And fast forward like
six years or whatever, and she'swinning election to represent the state of Georgia
in the House of Representatives you couldhave. I feel like all of that
is just what chat GPT made upbased off of all the evidence given,
Like this is probably what her pastwas. I'm not trying to be a

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jerk, but I mean, anybodycan do anything in this life. If
anybody told you the American dream isdead, look at Marjorie, Well,
yeah, it's never dead. Fordaddy's money. I mean, come on,
dad starts a company, you inheritcompany. After you inherit company,
you sell company, you make money, you start CrossFit Jim. Then Donald

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Trump reels you into politics, andnow you're in, ladies and gentlemen,
the American Dream. That's the dream, if there was ever a dream.
Oh man. J. C.Peters responds and says, it's also World
Running Day. Yeah, technically it'sGlobal Running Day. If you want to
be exact Global Running Day. ThanksJC for letting us know. Today you're

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supposed to do a virtual Global Runningfive k. Global Running Day five k.
It's kind of warm out there tobe doing that a well global running
five K if I went to godo it now, yeah, I should
probably wait until, like the sun'sabout to go down. It's too warm
for that. I wouldn't be runningvery fast in eighty five degree weather.
That's what you said. It wasright, like eighty five. Well,

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actually it's kind of sitting around eightyis. It's a high eighty seven today.
But we'll see if we get there. All right, All right,
Well there you go back to whatI was saying about Joe Biden. Anyway,
the reason all this came up isthere was a guy, his name
is Ronnie Jackson. He's a Republicanrepresentative from the state of Texas, and
he has said, well, he'sa former White House physician that we know,

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and then he decided he didn't wantto do that anymore. And now
he's a Republican lawmaker. He's inthe House Representatives. But he says he
comes out where. There's a WallStreet Journal report that cites interviews with forty
five people over several months, andbasically the journal the WSJ claims that congressional
leaders and others who have met withBiden have noticed him being slower. He

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has good moments but also bad moments. If that isn't exactly what we've been
saying about people of a certain ageand mental makeup for a long time now.
But I think it means a littlebit more when it comes from a
former physician in the White House.And yes he's a Republican, but I
think his words matter. He says, the articles just document what I've been
saying all along. He's not fitto be the commander in chief. He's

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got significant issues. He shouldn't havethe job. You know, it's a
national security issue for us. Now, you might be wondering, well,
was Ronnie Jackson, who is RonnieJackson taking care of? Was he taking
care of Joe Biden? And theanswer to that question is no, he
was not. He was the WhiteHouse physician for President Obama and President Trump.

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But you know, maybe he tookcare of you know, Biden as
well when he was the vice president. Certainly it would have been a different
kind of guy back then, healthwise, you'd think. So, I
don't know exactly. Maybe maybe hisnoticing, I mean, Biden's been hanging
around politics since the eighties, soa lot of these people are like,
oh, yeah, he definitely doesn'tseem to be the same. So an

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eighty one year old slowing down cognitively, that's not breaking news to any of
us. It's just why does thiseighty one year old guy get a pass
to be the leader of the freeworld? Yeah? I know, it's
there's something to be said for that, especially when his opponent is what seventy
eight, I don't know, twoforty seven. If you got thoughts on
this or anything else, or there'sother words you want to hear me pronounce,

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you can go ahead and call inat four h two five five eight
eleven ten four h two five fiveeight eleven ten News Radio eleven ten KFAB
and Maries on news Radio eleven tenKFAB. You know how old a lot
of these people are in Congress rightnow? Does this give you hope,
Matt that if society continues to improveon itself over the next I don't know,

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fifty years, are at like ourtime frame to live is going to
increase as well to like ninety onehundred years on average. Do we want
to live that long? It seemsto keep going up. Yeah for sure,
Yeah, I mean, as longas there was never this many old
people in Congress, that's kind ofmy point, right, right. Is
that a direct of the people tryingto stay in power or is that just
generally society we're living longer than weused to. I think maybe it's a

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combination too. The baby boomer generationwas a very large generation, and also
living expectancy is much longer than itused to be. So one hundred and
fifty years ago, I mean,if you got to forty five, you
were feeling pretty good about yourself ina lot of ways. Yeah, well
that's a guess. I don't know. I mean I remember watching The Flintstones
and Fred Flinstone was just like,yep, that's why we lived at the

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ripe old age of thirty eight.It's funny, Hey, you live in
the moment when you're living, youknow, and you just don't know tomorrow
is guaranteed and go tomorrow is neverguaranteed as far as you know, we
know we should. We live inevery life, every day to the fullest.
It's just we typically can predict thattomorrow is going to come for most

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of us, and so it's like, don't be reckless, but be present.
How's that is that good advice?Yeah? Be president in the moment,
but don't go doing crazy stuff becauseyou feel like, you know,
well, the world could end tomorrowand you'll have not experienced everything in your
entire life. Eh. You know, Harold Camping said the world was going
to end a lot he did,and that didn't necessarily happen. Sure does

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any part of you want to kindof look into some more random people in
Congress and figure out what they didbefore they got elected. That would be
interesting and kind of break it outand have you know, have sections and
yeah, like like these people werepoliticians before they got to Washington. D
c mm hmm. I mean thefair the fair one after Marjorie is AOC

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right, Alexandria Cossio to Cortes,and you know what she you know what
she did as I look through here, she was she graduated high school and
went to Boston University and she hadto she was involved in a lengthy probate

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dispute to settle his estate while shewas in college, and she was an
intern for Ted Kennedy and she wasthe only Spanish speaker in the office,
so she was assisting with the peoplein all the Spanish people, Spanish speaking
people in their constituency. And shegraduated cum laude from Boston University in twenty

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eleven with Bachelors and International Legends andeconomics. So there's there's that good job
right here. More on the wayhe's ready eleven think KFA B