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It's KFI AM six forty and you'relistening to the Conway Show on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. All right,so the big debate is at six o'clock
six pm tonight. We are onehour and fifty one minutes away. One
hour and fifty one and a halfminutes away from the big debate? Is

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that right? One hour fifty Yeah, fifty minutes, and it is on
CNM. Tune in to the CNNPresidential Debate Thursday. That's today, June
twenty seven. That's also today atsix pm. That's in an hour and
fifty minutes or so on CNN simulcaston KFI AM six forty. What day

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and Krozier. Look, I don'tknow how this happened, but the last
voice they're gonna hear on this stationbefore the debate is ours. It is
our show. That's weird? Allright? How we got that much clouting
around here? Yeah? You know, there was a lot of very serious
programs on the show. On thestation show, somebody messed up. Yeah.
Do you think they they ever callRobbin upstairs and go, hey,

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what happened? Yes, experiences youwill love this, But this is gonna
be great. I'm gonna be watching, You're gonna be watching. A couple
of thoughts, and we were talking. I was talking to John Colevelt during
the cross talk. This is goingto be the most watched debate in the

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history of television. Everybody is watching, Everybody will be listening, probably on
KFI. It'll be the biggest audienceI think we've had in years, maybe
decades. People driving around their car, they want to hear the debate.
They'll have it on KFI, andwe will carry it live for you,
thanks to our partners at CNN,We'll have it live. So that's gonna

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be great. It'll be uninterrupted unlessthey're running commercials and then we'll we'll chime
in. I think they're running onecommercial break. But I don't think it's
a fair out to do to eitherone of these guys. I know that
Donald Trump and Joe Biden often goto bed early, around nine to nine
thirty. This debate starts at nineo'clock, and and you know, you

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rarely see either one of them outpast nine o'clock at night. They both
go to bed early, and nowthey're gonna have to stay up to at
least ten thirty. That's when thedebate ends, and then postgame show,
I think Fox has something going onwith John Colebelt well, well, I
guess he's watching it over with AlexMichaelson, and Alex Michaelson's coming out of
this at four thirty. We'll gethis thoughts on the debate. But this

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is going to be a lame duckpresidency. Whoever wins. If Joe Biden
wins, good for him. IfDonald Trump wins, good for him.
But whoever wins will not have tocampaign anymore. So Donald Trump won't have
to, you know, include thefar right of the Republican Party he can

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ignore, or the far right theway Joe Biden can ignore the far left.
And I think this country will besane or over the next four years
than it has over the last fouryears. I think crime will be addressed
in a more manageable way. Ithink that the you know, the girls

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and boys locker rooms and sports teamsissue won't be as prevalent. And I
think this country over the next fouryears, whoever wins, it will become
a little more centrist. That's mythought. You know, maybe I'm on
the moon. That's possible as well. Who knows, but it will be
interesting to hear the debate, seewhat questions are asked, which questions are

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left out. And everybody I knowis nervous about this debate. They have
a pit in their stomach. They'renervous. They don't know how their side's
going to do. And for somereason, you know, when I was
growing up, a presidential debate,you know, mom and dad watched it,
maybe, but nobody really talked aboutit. But now everybody's talking about

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it. Everybody's talking about who's president, who's going to be president, who's
running, who's this, who's that. And I think we're too into politics
because ultimately, I don't know howyour life has changed much under Donald Trump
or Joe Biden. I can't reallytell you how my life is changed under
either one of them. And Ithink whoever's president, I think you're affected

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if you're in the military, orif you work for the federal government,
or you're on some kind of youknow, maybe some kind of assistance.
But for the majority of the people, you can't tell how your life has
changed for the better for the worseunder either president. Yeah, there are
some people whose lives radically changed,you know, because they work for the

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federal government, or they're in theyou know, their Secret Service, or
they're in the you know, thearmed services, And that's a big change.
If somebody becomes president who's a warhawk, that changes your life. If
somebody becomes president who's a dove whohates war that becomes your life as well.
So big change if you're in themilitary. But if you're not in

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the military and you don't work forthe federal government, I don't know.
I think it'd be hard pressed tofind mass difference between the two of them
over the last seven and a halfyears. So we'll watch the debate.
If you want to call in.We're going to keep the phones open all
day and we'll take phone calls becauseI know a lot of people are nervous.

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You shouldn't be. You shouldn't be, but you are, and you
want your guy to do well.And it's bringing back a lot of the
family problems again. I've noticed thatwhere families are ignoring you if you're a
Trump fan, or ignoring you ifyou're a Biden fan, and I was.

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I took a lift over the weekend. I took two rides on two
different lifts, two different guys andtalking to both of them. One of
them was from San Francisco, theother one kid was born and raised in
New Jersey. And both of themare complete centrists, you know, they
at least they said they were tome. You know, I mean,
that's the way to go. Iguess when you're driving somebody around, you

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don't want to get radical. Butthey I was sort of peppering them and
I say, hey, you guyswatching the debate. There's Thursday. And
both of them were very anxious towatch it. And they said, oh
yeah, yeah, yeah. AndI said, what is the big issue?
What it was, the one bigissue you think the president, either
Trump or Biden, whoever the presidentnext, should should tackle. And you
know, both of them said.Both of them are young guys. One

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guy was twenty five. I thinkthe other guy was thirty or thirty one.
They both said the same thing.They both said the exact same thing.
Crime crime. They see it allthe time. Lyft drivers, uber
drivers. Man, they got theirfinger on the pulse of what's happening in
America. If you're a politician,I'd get a Newburg or a lyft and
take twenty rides over a weekend.And ask the guys what's going on?

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What's going on? What do yousee? What do you see? They
don't, they don't. All right, we'll give out the phone number.
We'll take phone calls all day.If you'd like to call in, we'll
keep the phones open all day foryou, because I know you're nervous.
One eight hundred five to two ohone five three four one eight hundred five
to two oh one five three four. We are an hour and forty five
minutes away from the big debate.You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand

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from KFI AM six forty Presidential Debatetonight six pm on CNN and simulcast right
here on KFI AM six forty.Yes, that should be a cool,
cool deal. Lost my pen?My pen to find another one? What

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the hell, belly O. Iknow you're taking calls, you're screening your
ass off, and that's what youshould be doing like a good employee.
But I think all of our grandmotherslied to us. Did your grandmother or
mom make sun tea? Do youknow what sun tea is? Okay,
I did too. My grandmother inCleveland, Ohio made sun tea a big

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jar. That's right, Yeah,And then she put a bunch of tea
bags in it, left it outin the sun, and then she poured
you a nice glass of ice andpoured it over ice, And man,
was that sweet? Put it sweet? Yeah, it was. It was
so sweet. But my grandmother saidit was sweetened by the sun. I
caught her putting in three cups ofsugar. Yeah. We didn't put sugar

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in our sun tea. Drink itstraight, all right, So maybe it
was just my grandmother that lied tome. That's cute that she told you
that it was sweetened by the sun. It was sweetened by the sun.
Cute. Yeah. And we couldn'tgo anywhere near that jar. Well,
it was brilliant, it steep.Yeah, and you see the little brown
tea color come down and infiltrate thewhole jar for weeks. Yeah, that's

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right, that's right. And thenand another thing, I think my grandmother
lied to me about, which actuallyI know she did. But growing up,
none of us she had six grandkids, and all of us hated beans.
You know, fried beans, kidneybeans, you know, green beanslime
of beans. We weren't big fansof beans. Hated the beans, hated
all the everybody in the bean family. So we were eating chili one night

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and I'm like, wow, thischili is great, this chili is fantastic.
And I see in the trash canthere's an empty can of kidney beans.
And I said, oh, doyou put them in for the flavor
and then take them you fish themall out? And she says, no,
no, no, no, thatwas just an old can I had
used for something else to make youryour grandfather something like, oh, okay,
all right. And then I findout later she took the can of

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beans and ground them up in ablender. I was smart, and then
put them into chili. Very smart, smart, very smart. I think
it was deceiving. But they're sogood for you. I don't know.
I don't know if they are.Maybe there are they are, okay,
all right. But she ground himup and put him in my chili.
She lied to me about it didn'thave a beanie flavor. To you.

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I couldn't tell. I couldn't tellyou. It was her whole point.
You don't know the difference. Idid see the little red skins in there,
though I didn't notice that. They'reprobably in your teeth. Yeah,
they're all over the place. Butanyway, so if my grandmother lied to
me about tea and lied to meabout the chili, what else did she
lie to me about? What's goingon with that woman? She's from a

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Romania. I think that's where she. I think, I think when you're
born in Romania, because I'm coreto Romanian, so I can say this,
I think they take you to lyingschool first, they teach it,
they teach it. It was probablywhat was best for you. Though she
lied with good intentions, maybe maybe, But whenever my grandmother called somebody on
the phone, she never said highor introduced herself. She was. She

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went right into mid conversation, likeshe would call her her friend. What's
her name? Ruth? Was hera believer name? And she called Ruth
and she would and the phone ring, phone ring, and Ruth would pick
up, and my grandmother would say, I had a hamburger at Woolworth's.
No, no, no, no, no, no, mid conversation,

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never Hi, how you doing?What's happening? Is this Ruth? She
just like cut to the right toyeah, mid paragraph, mid paragraph,
I had a hamburger. I hada hamburger down to Woolworths. Have you
had lunch? Yet what'd you have? I like that. Maybe that's where
I got the beginning of the show. And you always say that, you
know, we get right into it. Maybe I stole it from my grandmother.

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You know like it? Yeah,I like it too. All Right.
We have a big debate coming up. We also have a big parade
coming up. The July fourth HuntingtonBeach Parade is coming up. I am
not going to be in it.What Yeah, but it's tradition. I
know. I didn't get I didn'tget the NOD this year. And I

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don't feel bad about it, becauseif you have the same people in the
parade every year, then why havethe parade. You got to open up
new people, new ideas, Andso I respect them for not getting a
hold of me and being in theparade. That said, I'm thinking about
getting a bike, putting my nameon it and being in that parade.

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Anyway, I'm going to crash thatparade. I might do that. I
might be in that parade on abicycle. We've had a float, we've
had a car. Now it's goingto be a bike. Yep. That's
not the way to go in life. We're going backwards. You want to
start with a bike, then acar, then a float and then get

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out. But I don't know.I'm toying Bellio with being in that parade.
And so I told this idea ofBellio and she said, I wouldn't
respect you unless you did that.And now I have to do it.
I've got to be in that parade. Now I've got a color, you
know, decorate my bike, putmy name on it being an Uncle Sam

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outfit, and be in that parade. Anyway, I'm gonna do that.
Please record it. The July fourthParade Huntington Beach is one of the greatest
parades in the world, whether I'min it or not. I love that
parade and all the people around it, all the people that work there.
They're all beautiful, wonderful people.You're listening to Tim Conway Junior on demand

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from kf I am six forty.Kelly. I just got a call from
Huntington Beach that they want her inthe parade. I thought that was odd.
You're gonna do it? Have fun? Hey, have fun. She's
in the parade. Sucks. AlexMichaelson is whether it's Alex, how you

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Bob being done with you and BellyO getting the recognition she deserves. I
don't know. Please stop blowing smokeup, Alex. Yeah, she gets
enough. Yeah, hey, sowhat do you know that's that's true.
That's true. That's true. Ialways said I can't do this without her,
and she goes, oh, thankyou, and then she said I

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can't do the show without you,and like, no kidding, that's a
no brainer. Yeah. Hey,so Alex, you are you watching the
debate tonight? Yes, yes,I'm watching the debate tonight, and we'll
take a post show on the debateon Fox eleven right afterwards. A live
edition of the issue is tonight,with kfi's John Cobo joining us in studio

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for it. Is Fox going tocut away to you writing notes during the
debate? I don't think so.But that's a good idea. That's good.
I think they should. All right, So what do you think we're
going to hear in this parade asdebate tonight? You think it's going to
be any surprises? What are youhearing? Because I know you have your
ear to the ground here. Ithink you're more focused on the parade,

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aren't you. That's right. Ithink I think that we're going to you
know, I think that the bigthing that really most people I think are
tuning in for is to get asense of is Joe Biden with it?
Is Joe Biden strong enough to bepresident, to stand up to Donald Trump

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and to earn another four years?Or is he the caricature that we so
often see in a lot of thesevideos online. Okay, don't you think,
Alex, don't you agree that startingthis thing at nine o'clock is not
good for either one of those twoguys. Those two guys are early birds.
You know, they're both in theirlate seventies early eighties, and they

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go to bed at nine o'clock atnight. That is true, and we
know and Trump's well, Trump,I don't think sleeps very much period.
I think he's kind of always up, and he also gets up really early.
But Biden does tend to do betterearlier in the day. And if
you look at his schedule, theyintentionally don't schedule very many things late at

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night for that very reason. ButI think he's going to be they just
stuff and animated. Don't I knowthat Trump's team is saying give him a
drug test and all that. Idon't think he's going to be on any
sort of drugs or maybe he willbe, but I think he's going to
have plenty of adrenaline flowing tonight.Here's I bet on this. But it's

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ten thousand to one on Vegas,and I put a buck down on it
just to you know, just forS's and G's. But at ten thousand
and one, and I bet thatboth of them are going to the first
fifteen minutes say we're tired of thiscrap, get into his corvette together and
drive off one of the most remarkablemoments in American history. I mean,

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could you imagine put on the aviatorsand do the whole thing right, just
do a buddy cop movie. Maybethat's right, Yeah, following them and
then see what happened, right,and then you look in the back seat
as they drive off, and StormyDaniels is topless in the back seat.

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Yeah, now you know why it'sten thousand to one, ten thousand and
one. But yeah, if ithappens. Okay, here's another bet,
that's at at I think it's atfour to one or five to one.
Will they shake hands? Yes?Yeah, I don't know, I think
they will. What do you think, I don't know. I don't know.

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I hope they do. You know, I think that goes a long
way in being civil to one toone another. Maybe, I mean,
of course, you know who knows. I mean, Donald Trump has broken
with so many different trends in Americanhistory. He of course is the first
president in modern history to not concedethe election. I mean, every other

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president would shake the hand of theperson who defeated them and oftentimes attend their
inauguration. Donald Trump hasn't done that. As far as I know. Trump
and Biden have not been in thesame room since January sixth. It would
be very interesting to see their personaldynamic. Right, He's one of the
people that denied that he lost theelection. Oh no, I'm sorry,

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he's one of two because Hillary Clintonalso denied that she lost the election.
Well, but there's there is animportant caveat there. I mean, Hillary
Clinton conceded the next morning, andshe attended Donald Trump's inauguration. I get
that, and you should have beenthere. I agree with you, and
I agree with you hundred percent.That's a big that's a big difference,

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that's right. I think I thinkthat he should have done that. All
right, So when the debate beginswho has the first question. Is they're
going to be opening remarks? Whatdo you hear? I don't know if
they've announced who's going to have thefirst question. The format is going to
be two minutes each and then Ithink they have a minute rebuttals that they
can do. If the moderator wantsto ask follow ups, they have the

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discretion to do another minute or somethinglike that. They have, you know,
the my are going to be cutoff once they're two minutes are over.
They're going to have flashing lights tellingthem they're timing, and then the
mics just stop working. We've neverseen that happen at a debate before,
and we'll see how that works.It's possible that Trump could just or Biden
could just keep talking, but theyjust wouldn't be miked, and you would

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see them on camera kind of tryto understand what they're saying. There are
going to be commercial breaks, whichdoesn't usually happen in these debates, So
they are going to be a couplebreaks. They're not allowed to huddle with
their teams during the commercial and notesin front of them, right but they
know no notes in front of them. They're going to have a pen and

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paper that they can write themselves.They can take notes during the debate,
but they can't walk in with likea binder of canned lines to try to
get off or anything like that.And I don't know about bathroom breaks,
if there's a chance for that.And you know, I've never heard of
a debate before like this one,and I've never We're seeing so many people

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online social media, people I know, acquaintances, coworkers. There's a lot
of people nervous about what we're aboutto see in an hour and twenty eight
minutes. Yeah, and the pollsshow that Democrats are more nervous than Republicans.
That Republicans are more eager to watch, is that they feel better about
Trump and what he's going to do, and that Democrats are very concerned by

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a large part of Joe Biden's abilityto perform and are nervous that he's not
going to be up to it tonight. So obviously the stakes are really high.
I think the numbers, as yousaid, I think when we talked
last week, it's going to belike close to Super Bowl numbers. And
the probably will I think usually inthese debates, the first ten or fifteen
minutes have huge numbers, and thensometimes it drops off if the debate is

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kind of boring. But at leastinitially, I think that the country is
going to try to get a vibecheck of these two old men who are
trying to do this and get asense of you know, can they still
do this? And where are theyat? And I think people really don't
know what Joe Biden is going toshow up, which one and also potentially

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which Donald Trump shows up. Youknow, we we we think of him
as the bombastic Trump who interrupted Bidenone hundred and fifty one times in that
first debate, but he also doeshave the ability to pull back a little
bit and be a quote, youknow, more normal sort of teleprompter Trump
that colors within the lines and triesto show that side of him. And
will that will he try to dothat? Right? And I know you

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got to go, I know yougot to go quick question. Will this
be the closest that secret Service allowsa convicted felon to get to the president
of the United States? Well,I mean there's an argument, of course,
if if Donald Trump wins, manyof the people in his inner circle

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have been convicted of felony, Soright, it's the Secret Service. Do
you think the Secret Service? Ishare story like behind the scenes of how
crazy these two are. I'm surethey do. They got it all right,
buddy, I'll be watching or listeningI and I know you got John
Colebelt tonight, so great, great, great, get buddy. Yeah,

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So we'll be on right at seventhirty, right after the date on Fox
eleven. If people want to tunein, we to really appreciate it being
wrong with you, all right,Alex Michaelson, everybody there, he goes.
You're listening to Tim conwaytunire on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. The
debate starts at six o'clock, onehour and eight minutes from right now on

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CNN. Yes, so tune inat six o'clock the CNN Presidential Debate tonight
six pm on CNN, simulcast righthere on KFI AM sixty. And what
you'll see on all the TV sets, maybe you're watching it down on CBS,

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ABC, NBC, Fox, kCOW at LA. They're all running
it. We're gonna run it hereon I believe we're the only radio station
running it. Don't don't look thatup. I see you both looking at
their computer, don't only when thatmatters, they'll look that up. But
on TV if you watch it onTV, and I don't think you should.

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I think we do a pretty goodjob here rolling that audio. And
you're gonna be the car, soyou're not home anyway. But if Fox
runs it, and Fox is gonnarun it, ABC, CBS, they're
all going to have to put theThey're all gonna have the CNN logo on
the debate the entire time. Thisis great for CNN. This is a
huge, huge day and a hugegift for CNN. And they're putting on

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this entire debate. They're paying foreverything. They rented the hall, they're
putting up, you know, thecameras, the lights, the decorations,
the set, all that stuff.They're paying for everything. But man of
those ratings going to be through theroof, through the roof, huge,
huge ratings. And and that's cool. You know, we'll I have some

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analysis afterwards. Chris Merrill's going tobe here and that'll be great. Take
some phone call, Stephoush. Let'sgo with Linda. She's been on hold
the longest online one. Linda,you're on KFI. How are you good?
Jim I know a farm worship herbrecipe for son Chi your grandmothers.
All right, okay, you putfour chea bags in the last chair.

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Yeah, put it outside in thesun. Wait an hour, and then
add a mint tea bag. Ah. Great call, Linda, great call.
All right? How about more online? Three? You're on KFI?
How are you? Hey? It'sactually Moose the driver. I'm an Uber
driver in Orange County. Oh,I love you. I love the Moose.

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I love the Uber and Lyft drivers. Man, you guys know what's
going on. Yeah, let metell you the best I'm how to do
it debate party right now. Thebest debate party I've ever been to is
when you guys did it down inAnaheim that night. We had so much
fun. Oh that was great.That was when Hillary was debating Donald Trump.
So much fun. We had sucha great time. That was a

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sellout too. We got like atwelve hundred people there that night. Yeah,
it was crowded. We were inthe nose in the very back corner.
Yeah. All right. So areyou driving Uber or Lyft? Uber?
Both? All right? And andwhat do you what do you what
are you seeing on the streets?Because you guys deal with you know,
the common folk every single day.Are people anxious about crime? The economy?

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What do you hear? So,I'm in Orange County, so you
know, we prosecute crime down here. So a little bit different than you're
your writers you talk to this weekend. I think that the biggest thing is
the economy. Okay, I thinkthe economy is the biggest thing that we
need to get in order. Ithink you're onto something, all right,
Moose, thanks for coming by,Thanks for calling, Thanks for coming by.

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The debate in Orange County and Anaheim. That was a big deal.
That was cool. Glad we didthat. Devin online four you're on KFI.
How are you? Hey? Goodafternoon, mister Kylaway, all is
good. All is good out here. I just want to say, and
I'm a huge, diehard politics fan. I am one of those undecided voters.

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I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. Ithink both choices are not the best
in the buffet of politicians. Butas far as the debate tonight, I
think the people are expecting the Donaldto be classic Trump, and I think
we'll get some of that. ButI do think that mister Trump is going
to be more presidential tonight, andI think he's actually gonna blow a lot

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of people away. I just havethat feeling tonight he's going to be much
more presidential. Okay. And whereare you watching? You're watching at home
family friends. Yes again, I'mdie politics fan. I watched this stuff
like sports, so I got tobe in front of my TV at home
alone. Man. All right,Hey, buddy, am I hearing a
smoke detector that's beeping in the background. No, you're hearing my seven year

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old daughter. She was playing makingsome noises with her cusbins. All right?
And how many kids? How manykids you have? I have one
daughter. She's Nalla. Say Hi, say hi. The mister Conway,
Hey, Nala, how are you? How old is how old is Nala?

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Tell mister Conway? He said,how old are you? Oh?
That's beautiful. But Devin, I'mgonna tell you something you probably already know.
But having a kid was the greatestthing I ever did. Nothing comes
close, nothing, man, nothingat all. I love the show Man
and miss Belli O, I loveyou too. You are the best.

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Thank you so much. All Right, we gotta take a break. Look
of the clock. When it's timeto get out of here. Yeah,
ah man, we got to takea break. If we don't take a
break here, man, we're gotHey, Nala, you got a great
dad. Thanks for calling and Ihope you have a great debate. Devin,
thanks for the phone call. Bubthere he goes, sorry I had

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to cut him off. Well wehad Look, we're a lot of time,
tim straight, I don't know,I don't know. Good question.
Well then if I'm I'm done talking, then play music. Okare go ahead?
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