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Hi, Mickey.

Hey, Bob.

How you doing?

Okay.

Oh, look, you've got a copy of Hillbilly elegy in your shrine.

Oh, those are fake candles. I always thought those

are real flames coming from your votive candles. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they are.

Oh, does this, is this a comment on J.D. Vance then? Is your devotion less than organic?

No. My, uh, but I just wanted, I was looking for the previous episode where I had a shrine to J.D. Vance, Bob, because I want us to wallow in how wrong you were when I months ago predicted that J.D. Vance would do well and you said he was toast.

I believe we were some phrase like that. He said he was finished through. And I said, no, he has incredible talent.

In fairness, that's when I thought Trump was going to endorse him rather than J.D. Mandel,

who Trump endorsed at the last, or actually, J.P. slash J.D. Mandel, who Trump endorsed at the last

minute. So the curse of Trump actually fell on the opponent.

Well, but for people not paying. I think that's an example of where even though Trump

fucked it up and he didn't really fuck it up. That was close to a Biden moment.

Advances. That was shown through a Biden moment. Vance's talent shown through.

I don't think the Trump misstatement of Vance's name is the name of his opponent,

which wasn't even in the state.

It was in another state.

He was just recalling the previous, you know, what had happened in Ohio.

I don't think that, that, well, you know what, you want to hear my other excuses? You want to hear my, I was kidding about that. I was just, just ribbing you, Mickey, because Trump had a Biden moment. Okay, well, I have, you know, but the- I like you, I'm not rested, so I have no sense of humor. I am rested for the first time in months.

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