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This is the podcast for February 5, 2016.

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Recorded live from just this side, the limits of our patients.

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

Yeah. I'm really not at the limits of my patience, but I would like Carly Fiorina to drop out of the race.

I can see my limits from here.

That's an important thing for a bitter Irishman to know.

You know, when is my patient going to fall right off the table and I'm just going to start kicking puppies through box fans?

You forget how much you hate the roller coaster.

Yeah.

Until you get back up and oh, this is why I don't ever, ever, ever get on these crappy rides.

Part of it is the primary season, and I mean this on the Democratic side as well as the Republican side, is a time of intense kind of family fighting. And that can get really tiresome

after a while. You just want to get to the turkey and the pie and not have to deal with Crazy Uncle Liberty Cross away

or, you know, the stinky college student who came home and thinks he knows everything

because politics is for bullshit artists.

But the truth is you don't really care about the truth, man.

Here's a bag of laundry. It used to be about the music, man. Here's a bag of laundry.

This used to be about the music, man.

Yeah, yeah.

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