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Welcome back in. podcasts. edition of the program. Buckle will be back with me on Tuesday, out today and Monday and we'll be certainly talking a lot over the next several days about the

upcoming debate and what we should expect to see from the debate as Joe Biden is now

at Camp David for the next seven days preparing for what he is going to theoretically

be able to do. Remember, debates only 90 minutes. There are two different

commercial breaks. Presumably that will knock out six or seven minutes from the overall debate.

So you're then down to what, 83 minutes-ish?

Trump will talk for half of that time. is. minutes. He's preparing for one full week to talk for the amount of time that I

talk to you every hour. Think about how crazy that is. The President of the United States has cleared his entire schedule

to go to Camp David and prepare to talk to all of you for about 45 minutes at the absolute apex.

More likely 38, 42 minutes somewhere in there when you factor in the amount of time for the commercial

breaks.

I mean, honestly, with the questions being asked, he probably only has to talk for about

35 minutes he's preparing for one full week to do that and I know that many of you out there agree with me that Biden is not going to be the

nominee. And I bet Buck, I bet Buck told you the last two days, oh I'm sticking to it,

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