The following podcast contains explicit language.

It's Tuesday, October 18th, 2016, from Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Paskai, I'm off to Las Vegas for the debate tomorrow.

I really think Mr. Trump is sitting on some excellent arguments.

I strongly suspect that he will be turning the entire thing around with this debate.

I wasn't going to say anything, but I will.

If I'm elected, I'm going to have Hillary Clinton fired out of a cannon.

Sad. Now, I've heard a lot that this election has taken a turn for the ugly.

I've heard that about 50 times.

Talk of penis size during the Republican debate alleging that Ted Cruz's dad shot Kennedy

that Heidi Cruz ain't a looker, that Carly Fiorina ain't a looker, that one of his accusers ain't a looker.

Birth orism, jelling his rival, not having talked to his running mate, rigged election.

Have I forgotten anything? Yes, I've forgotten about 100 things.

Turn, turn, turn. This thing has turned more times than if a python covered a bird song on Lombard Street.

But here's the thing, and I apologize for that last one.

But here's the thing. If Trump, this horrible disaster, weren't the nominee if he were some normal who stayed within norms of normal say,

Hillary might not be winning. She might be losing.

Which, if you're not a Democrat, you might not care about, but think of how she'd be losing.

The election would be close. She'd either be maybe a head by a little or behind by a little,

but not blown out like Trump is. And then these wiki league revelations would hit.

And they would hurt her. Maybe you could argue they'd hurt her unfairly.

Maybe there would be better coverage than there is now. There certainly be more coverage.

But I bet a lot of the coverage, if this was all the media we're paying attention to,

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