This is the podcast for October 12, 2012.

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Recorded live from just outside the snows of Afghani Manjaro.

It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.

Paul Ryan, Afghan weatherman.

Yeah.

Oh, Jesus.

What season is it in Afghanistan?

There's seasons and they don't like to fight in the snow.

The snow comes and then comes the rains.

And then comes the army.

The spring comes and with it the opium and the many other exports that Afghan and in the end Paul Ryan did

conclude Afghanistan a land of contrast he just he really was faking it it was bad you read his little

book report that somebody prepared for him about Afghanistan and that and that of all the all the passion and other things that are, we'll talk about the Biden style and debate and so forth, Paul Ryan clearly had prepared blocks of text he had memorized.

His conclusion was such.

As every high school debater knows, at least from my generation, the first affirmative, you get up and read an eight-minute prepared speech.

It's the same speech every week.

You memorize it.

You say it with gestures and emphasis, but there's no improvisation involved at all.

It is a straight up.

And clearly what Paul Ryan had done, down to his gestures and the looks in his eyes and the way he sort of had that smirking, assonine nod to his head, trying to act like he was not punching way out of his weight class.

He had these memorized blocks of text, which worked fine.

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