There was heightened security at Trump's rally Saturday. What in the world happened?

Episode Transcript

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Boh, what, I don't know. Did you see what happened to We'll
get to this Iranian plot to potentiallyassassinate Donald Trump again. What does that
even mean? Well, it meansthat the Iranians would want Donald Trump dead
for some reason. Why do youthink that is? And why are we

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hearing this now? It's a goodpoint. They say this is not connected,
and I'll be honest, I agree, I don't think it's connected.
I do have people still trying totell me that this was all an inside
job, but you have to keepthat door open even if you don't want
to believe that. Specifically, becausenow we're being told he had increased security

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at this event in Pennsylvania and theystill let a twenty year old, untrained
shooter get a clean look at himfrom about four hundred feet away. That's
increased security. Did you also seewhat Joe Biden did yesterday? He told
you know what, he said,a secret Service protect RFK Junior as well.
M mm hmm, because he initiallyhad refused to allow the Secret Service

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to do that. So I guesswhat's uh? What do we think about
that? What do you think aboutthis? What do you think about increased
security also having that, like,let that happen? Do you believe that?
Or is this a new narrative?I? Well, I try to
I mean, just personally, Itry to find and stick with the facts

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for as long as I can.I mean, sure, there's plenty of
conversations we can entertain, but puttingyour stamp of approval on anything that doesn't
have all the facts behind it,to me just seems silly, if not
pointless or and even in some casesdangerous. But we also just don't have
enough facts to put the whole puzzletogether yet. That's true to me.

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Where I lean is this is agroup of people's secret security who are certainly
way more skilled and informed about howto things like this than I am.
Yeah, but this was a livesituation that they most likely hadn't really dealt
anything close to previously, right,And so how can we sit here and
say, genya believe this happened?It's like, well, what do you

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mean? Can I believe it happened? Of course I can believe in all
the things that are possible it happenedbecause they'd never done anything like this before.
So is it possible that that happenedthe way it did? Of course
it is, but yeah, itdid take some negligence, like how in
the world did that guy scramble upthat ladder and get up there? So
we now be there for a coupleminutes while people were pointing at him,

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like how does that happen? What'sthe chain of command? We know he
was at least seen and people wereattempting to alert those in charge for it
almost two minutes. Yeah, youcan hear videos of people yelling he's got
a gun, like they're yelling thaton their video. And I don't know,
I don't know those videos proximity towhen it happened, but I know
that those videos are out there,and I mean, we have enough intelligence

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now that somebody lined it up.People had seen him and tried to alert
people within two minutes, like theyhad two minutes to react. Now that
may not seem like a ton oftime, but people already should have been
on high alert because we also havelearned in the last twenty four hours or
so that he had been seen actingerradically for like thirty minutes before this suspicious

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guy they that had been noted,and we don't have a building in clear
line of sight to the stage clearand secure, and a guy that we
find to be incredibly suspicious at apresidential candidate event where you would think about
as high as security of any possibleevent you could ever go to, and

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they don't arrest him immediately, theycan't secure him immediately. I feel like
if you here's an example for you, what Donald Trump's going to have a
rally in Omaha, and what doyou say? Let's do it inside?
How's that? That's probably a goodplan at this point. Let's do it
inside, but we're going to needa big crowd. What's the kind of
crowd that we want to have thatwe can like a venue that we could

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do this at. Let's just let'sget as secure as possible. See CHI
is free for the day. Yeah, we can staff it. We don't
worry about that. Let's go toc CHI Health Center. Let's do it.
Let's do it in there. Isthat you think that's a good idea.
We've been in a CI hell CenterLateley, Yeah, big place.
What's the first thing that happens whenyou walk in the door? Metal detector?
Metal detector plus security there to alsowatch people walking through the metal detector.

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Let's say we go there and let'ssay we put it's kind of a
test. Let's put a test togetherfor the security. You walk through,
you get past the metal detector,and you pass the metal detector test.
There's no way you have a weaponon you. You also are acting fine
enough to where all the security thatare lining the perimeter of the building as
people are walking in, they aregoing to be paying close attention to every

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single person. You have nothing,You've shown no reason for them to get
upset at you. You were notnoted at all for any reason. And
then at some point you act justa little bit weird in the crowd.
Maybe you stand up, maybe youlike raise your arms above your head,
maybe you put your hands in yourpockets, maybe you start yelling stuff out
loud enough to where somebody notices you. You don't think a security guard within

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seconds is going to be right ontop of you asking you what the heck
you're doing in the controlled environment wherethey know you don't have a weapon.
Yeah, you'd think so. I'mvery so if that's the case in a
secured location, because I guarantee that'show that happens. You act at all
strange in one of these events,there's somebody on top of you immediately.

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Yet here we have an outdoor eventwhich we know is not fully secured.
Is not a fully secured perimeter area. You have to secure it yourself.
And they left a building wide openwith a clear line of sight to the
stage within four hundred feet of this. It seems surprising it. I just
don't know how that happens. Itseems surprising, especially with the timeline we

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have. He was seen thirty minutesearlier, and they noted him to be
erratic already. He should be.Shouldn't you like escort him off the premises.
This is not something you play aroundwith. Not only did they not
do that, but then when he'sclimbing up there for almost two minutes,
there are people on the ground sayingthere's a guy there, he's got a
gun, and he still gets shotsoff, enough shots to injure the president,

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injured, two other people kill aguy before he's taken out. I
think it's totally fair game for anybodyto ask questions about the organization of this,
especially now they're saying that was heightenedsecurity because of this alleged assassination attempt
that potentially could be having factors fromIran on Donald Trump. I mean,

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if that's heightened security, then whatare we doing at normal security levels?
That's a complete failure. But ifthis was more security than he had before,
how does that happen? We'll talkmore about this. We'll get your
thoughts too. I want to talkabout Bob Menindez as well. We got
to talk about that national anthem fromlast night at the home run Derby got
some updates on that too, antenaciousd something happened to them. We got
to talk about that big show foryou. Stick around on news radio eleven

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to ten kfab. He is thenseen making his way up this roof from
different vantage points, and there arepeople that have camera shots of him getting
on the roof and people saying thatthey see him with a gun, and
that happens for roughly two minutes beforehe takes these shots. The one thing

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that we didn't know that we knowtoday is, besides the timeline, that
there are apparently increased security around DonaldTrump already based on a plot that intelligence
in the US is uncovered that theremight be a price on his head from
Iran. Now again, weird timingon this, right, if that is
accurate, if you have heightened security. How does this happen? So,

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Butler County is where this happened.Butler County Sheriff Michael Sloopy. Hang on
Sloopy, he talked about the lawenforcement and encounter with Crooks a little bit
more okay, and this was today. Police in Butler County received tips about
a suspicious person outside the Trump rally. They did make an effort to find
it. They searched the area andfigured out there was someone on the roof

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of the building. While they weresearching again thirty minutes, one officer helped
another onto the roof. That's theofficer that we were talking about. He
did not use the ladder. Thesecond officer started to climb up the roof,
saw Crooks and pointed a gun atthe officer. So we do know
now based on this information. Accordingto Michael Sloopy, the sheriff in this
county who was overseeing the local policeofficers, that the officer that dropped down

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had a gun like aimed at himand that's when he dropped back down Butler
off the Butler Township officer dropped offthe roof to avoid being shot. Crook's
opened fire on Trump shortly after andmoments later a sniper got him got the
shooter. The building was a rallypoint for one of the local counter sniper
teams. A source set a teamwas stationed in or near that building.

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There were four counter sniper teams atthe rally, including two from the Secret
Service and two from local law enforcement. So where we're they were in there,
but they weren't up there of course. Now and I'm going to get
a ton of guff from people whoare one hundred percent in on this whole.
This is an inside job. Withinthe last hour or two, joint
intelligence bulletin has come out from theDepartment of Homeland Security and the FBI,

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shared with multiple intelligence and law enforcementorganizations, which also warn of potential repeat
attacks and retaliation. And a sourcefrom the FBI has said, and I
quote, we continue to face veryreal threats from those who seek to undermine
our elections. The FBI remains vigilantin our efforts to detect and it says
possible threats, and as always,we encourage the public to promptly report suspicious

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activities which could represent a threat topublic safety. End quote. Well,
I was for sure I heard fortwo minutes, so somebody did in that
moment, but they weren't able toget him until he started to shoot.
I don't know Politico was the oneI found their their memo on news.
So I got to tell you,guys, while I'm I'm hearing you when

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you say we think that there's somethingup with this, there's something more here
than meets the eye. I canhear that, I can see that.
I'm feeling you on that while Itry not to jump off that ledge myself.
I'm totally okay with you jumping offthat ledge as long as you're willing
to listen to new information. AndI think that's I guess the bigger point

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of this segment is I just hopethat when more information comes out, we
can be as a unit as acountry, take new information and have the
ability to change our perspective if thatinformation warrants that. It's a free country.
Everybody has the ability to think theway that they want to think.
But the ideas of this being aninside job the FBI or the CIA is

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trying to take Trump out, wedon't have enough information yet to debunk any
of that. I'll tell you thatright now. But as we learn more
information, as we hear more aboutthe things that are happening and the fallout
of this stuff. All I sayis hopeful when we get more information,
we as a group together can siftthrough that information and have the willingness to

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adjust our beliefs are adjust how wesee something if the information warrants it.
That's that's all I'm saying. Iappreciate everybody for sharing their thoughts yesterday,
though it is very productive, Ithought in getting as many angles as possible
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eleven ten, kfab all right,So talking about all sorts of things that
are in the news today, andon the phone line we have Craig.
Craig, is there something specific youwant to talk about today? Yeah,
I wanted to mention that JD.Vance Trump's running mate has a beard,
and I just wonder if, Imean, having facial hair is pretty uncommon

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for our famous politicians. I justwonder if, yeah it is, how
if that might in some way effectis you know, there is standing as
as a VP candidate. Yeah.Okay, So Craig, this is a
fantastic question because Matt and I afew months ago did this huge deep dive
into politicians and their lack of facialhair and which ones do have facial hair,
and when they get the facial hairis usually after they're elected. Craig,

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I appreciate this. We're going totalk about this right now. Thanks
for the call. And we mentionedthis a little yesterday, right we did.
Yep. But I told you Ithink this is different because Jade Vance
would have never won an election withoutthe beard. Look up jd Vance without
the beard. Okay, and tellme that that guy is winning an election,
especially as a conservative person. Justgo ahead, all wait, what
you got there? You find it? Ah? Yeah, explain what you're

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seeing there, you know. Wow. Okay, that's a difference right there.
Huh. Now, I'm telling youhe's got the same problem I got.
It's just it's way to babyface.Yeah is he not? Yeah?
I mean he's a young guy.He's thirty nine years old. Elist had
a beard probably when he's thirty fourto thirty five. You know what doesn't
help the baby face. I'm speakingfor myself, here and JD, it's
that weak jawline. Need we needmore mewing. Let's face it, I

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don't like having a beard. Whatis the Do I look okay without the
beard? I think? Yeah,I think what you have, what you
do is really working for you.Like the uh what would you call it?
Like the permanent five o'clock shadow kindof thing. Yeah, I'll shave,
I'll shave and like for a day, I'm clean, and I like
the feeling of clean. But thenthe look really comes in a day or
two later. Right, I'm alittle long right now, which is I'm

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about a close to a week isthis is a little long and a little
disheveled looking. I think the beardis doing wonders for JD. That's what
I'm saying. It is if youif this is what my observation is.
Not always is that the case?Not always, that's for sure. But
in this case, yeah, JDhad he needed the beard and not even

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just a goatee or anything like that. He needed the full thing. It's
it's real. It makes him muchmore adult looking. It makes him look
like twenty five years older, whichis not a bad thing, because he
looked like he's twelve when he wasin his mid thirties. Right now,
I have information on this. Wetalked about this name a president with a
beard. Abraham Lincoln is the firstone that comes to mind. That's a
long time. Yeah, there wasone. There's a couple after him,

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but it was it was the stylein the late eighteen hundreds. I know
Teddy didn't have a full beard,but he had the stash. Yeah dash
so. So that run of presidentsright between Lincoln sixteen Roosevelt is twenty six.
That run of president's in there,beards were incredibly common. Number seventeen
Andrew Johnson didn't have one. Ulyssessays Hayes was eighteen. He had a
full beard, maybe the best ever. If it's not him, for the

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best beard ever, it's got tobe Rutherford B. Hayes right after him,
Rutherford B. Hayes, number nineteen. Look at Rutherford B. Hayes,
nineteenth president of the United States ofAmerica. That's a beard. You
got. You got some Hayesford.Get you a picture of Rutherford Rutherford B.
Hayes And what a name. Nice? Oh yeah, good beard.
Huh Yeah. Twenty is James Garfield, he had beard. Guy after him

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is Chester Allen Arthur, who tookover when Garfield was assassinated. Arthur he
had the mutton chopped into the intoa mustache. Like, look up,
Chester Allen Arthur, and tell meif anybody get elected wearing one of those
things. Now, I think youmight get tossed out of Costco walking in
with one of those Chester Allen Arthur. Yeah, that guy. Aha,
Okay, look at that thing.Now that's a face that needs it.

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Though, Well, that guy's gotsome jowls. You gotjowls like that,
you might need something like that.But think about it, like, look
at the run that we're on hereof guys with facial hair. Now,
these are all beards or variations ofsaying. Gover Cleveland goes twenty two to
twenty four, he's a stash guy. Benjamin Harrison in between him is a

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beard guy, good beard. Twentyfive. After that we finally like bucked
the trend with William McKinley not havinganything. But then twenty six and twenty
seven both facial hair, Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, both with stashes.
Okay, after that there's none.Wow, we're talking one hundred plus
years of not having a president withfacial hair, or realistically a legitimate candidate

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with facial hair, except for oneThomas Dewey, who we think lost against
Truman because women didn't want to votefor him because of that weird stash he
had going. It was a nastystash. Yeah, it was a nasty
stash. Okay, So the beardthing. Do you think people will vote
for him because of the beard.I think it's more likely people wouldn't have

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voted for him if he didn't havea beard. The beard was a strategic
move before he ran for Senate.Won his Senate race on the back of
a Donald Trump endorsement. We gotto keep in mind this guy was a
never Trump guy. Now, it'snot like he recently just was like,
oh yeah Trump. No, itwas a few years ago, and certainly
he got some help from Trump whenhe endorsed him. But he changed.

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People can change. I think it'sin important for us to change and have
the ability to adjust where we are. And I'm guessing JD once he wanted
to get involved into politics, realizedI think a little bit more about the
game than he did when he wasjust an author guy who happens to be
also got a doctor of law andalso was a marine. Quite a background

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good enough for Amory. Last vicepresident with facial hair, I told you.
Last president with facial hair is TafftOkay, the twenty seventh president over
one hundred years ago. Last vicepresident with facial hair. Guess, hmmm,
guess when I'll go later than that. We'll say maybe sometime in the
sixties, thirties, thirties, Okay, President Hoover. President Herbert Hoover's vice

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president, Charles Curtis, had amustache. And that, I mean,
that's nineteen thirty three. There hasn'teven been a person who was a vice
president of this United States with abeard or any facial hair whatsoever since nineteen
thirty three when Hoover lost and CharlesCurtis went with him. Trump last week

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talked about Vance's beard because there arepeople, there are people out there that
are saying, much like this guyon our phone line, what was his
name, Craig, Yeah, Craig. Craig said, you think this costs
him because we have a history,at least in the last one hundred years,
that facial hair is not usually awinning formula. There's not a lot
of people that win elections at afederal level with facial hair. But Trump

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said he looks good. He lookslike a young Abraham Lincoln. Now I
don't know. I don't think Abedidn't really go with the beard until later
either. You got to remember thatmost of the photographs and anything that we
have of Abe Lincoln pre presidency,he has no facial hair either. He
is clean shaven, remember those.And man is he ugly? Yeah?

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Man is he ugly? He hadkind of a high registered voice too,
right, can you imagine that combo? Well, he's six' four.
Yeah, top hats are in.Now he's wearing the top hat. He's
going out and about. He's thisyoung, scrawny look in hall slender,
weird looking guy, and his facejust kind of looks like a mashup of

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all of the worst parts of likean old man. Even as a young
man, he looked like that.But he became president. So don't forget
fellas, don't worry about your looks. It's your confidence, it's your hard
work, and it's your personality workon. Those three things are sideburns,
facial hair, Yeah, I counthim as facial hair. Yeah. So
there are some sideburn guys. JohnQuincy Adams had a pair of burns,

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Martin Luther, Martin van Buren.Martin van Buren had good pair of sideburns.
But Lincoln's the first elected president witha full beard or like the beard.
So I literally just ran through everysingle because all of the earlier presidents
didn't have a beard. It's crazy. You can call in four two,
five, five, eight eleven ten. I know this sounds stupid to talk
about, but it actually is athing, and it's kind of interesting.

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You can call in a four twofive to five eight eleven ten. It's
news Radio eleven ten kfab. EmerySunger on news Radio eleven ten kfab.
Now, he's not the lead ofthe ticket, but this is designed to
help him be the lead of theticket after Trump has finished with his four
years potentially. It's pretty interesting,right, And we talked about this weeks

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ago about facial hair and why wedon't see more people with facial hair in
politics, and it's because there's ahistory of that kind of being something that
will lose you an election. Ifthis is our road back to getting mutton
chops in the White House, I'mall in, okay, Yeah, Now,
Vance is carrying that torch up tothe phone lines four oh two,
five, five, eight, eleven, ten. Dan's on our phone line.

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Dan appreciate the call. What areyou thinking about? Well, you
kind of touched on. I'm gladyou got it right. Van Beeren had
mutton shouts or pork chops their callit, as did Elvis. But on
Abe blink and you still spit ithistory or whatever trivia. Some young girl
told a blink and that he wouldlook more distinguished if he grew a beard.
And he grew a beard, boompresident. You know we can all

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use one of those, right,all you is just a girl. It's
like, you know what this willlook? This whole look isn't really work
it out for you here. Andthen he became an icon with the beard.
Well, and he had a reallypod mark facing food, so right,
so I covered all that up andlittle girl made him president. So
there you go, all right,Dan appreciate it, Thanks so much.

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Good day. Yeah. First beardedpresident was Abe Lincoln, and man was
he ugly? Look at look itup, look up Abe Lincoln. Abraham
Lincoln before he had a beard,and man is he an ugly man?
If he can do what any ofus can. Dave's on our phone line
four oh two, five, five, eight to eleven ten, Dave,
what's up? Hey? So mycomment would be here here suggesting that facial

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hair might cost the election. Sowhat are the numbers in the last hundred
years? How many candidates lost thatfacial hair? That's a great question.
So as far as those pop marksus old guys call it character, Oh
yeah, for sure. Now.But that's the thing though, if you
look at Abe's photos, he wasn'trelieving that old and he looked ugly.
You know what I'm saying, like, he's just an ugly looking guy.

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The beard. I'm just protecting myself, Dave. I appreciate the call man,
thanks so much. You got Abeup. You're looking at what are
you seeing there? I did?Yeah, I you know, clean shaven.
I see this quote too. AbrahamLincoln, upon being called two faced
by a political opponent, said,if I had two faces, do you

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think I'd be wearing this one?That's pretty clever. That's a good one.
But doesn't he just kind of lookhe just how does how did he
get a girl? Because it's becauseit's not all about that six' four
in that era is like six'eight. Now, think about that.
There weren't a not a lot ofsix foot tall people. This guy was
six' four in an era ofa lot of short people. Hey,

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ladies love the tall guys. Hewas. He was a freaky looking dude.
Maybe she couldn't see his face,you know, he's so tall and
maybe yeah, maybe the beard definitelythough, that's an iconic. Yeah,
like his his beard top hat combinationiconic. We'd have to do the research
on how many guys ran for officeat a federal level with beards or mustaches.

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I don't know how long it's gonnatake to get that information. Thomas
Dewey obviously is the most famous example, but I think it speaks volumes to
the fact that all of these candidatesfelt like the best chance they had to
win was to shave their face.Like, think of the last presidential candidate
we had with facial hair. Hasthere been one since Dewey? I can't

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think of one, So I meanthat's the forties. Keep that in mind,
all right, we'll talk about morestuff. There's plenty plenty there.
Menendez. Today's suste bad national anthemat the home run Derby all that and
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