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🗓️ 28 August 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | David, we found out during the Republican convention that Vice President Mike Pence is obsessed |
| 0:10.2 | with Garfield. |
| 0:14.4 | What I want to know is what would be the most damning comic strip for a politician to be |
| 0:21.0 | a fan of. |
| 0:22.0 | By the way, I don't know, I was looking at the file. |
| 0:25.4 | I don't think it made it overworked Twitter joke of the week, but I saw a lot of people |
| 0:28.0 | responding to that news by saying, damn, now I have to love Mondays, I think. |
| 0:32.0 | But Garfield is pretty bad. |
| 0:36.8 | Garfield is, it's pretty rough. |
| 0:38.6 | We're going to push Vice President Biden off the table. |
| 0:43.2 | That's our campaign slogan. |
| 0:44.2 | But at least Garfield could be, there's some kick, right? |
| 0:47.7 | You can have a Garfield mug from childhood that's just sort of been your thing forever. |
| 0:53.0 | I got, I mean, there's a whole, but there's a whole |
| 0:58.0 | group of just like non-famous comic strips, you know, one step, but the things that we |
| 1:04.0 | grew up with and never read, like high and lowest, I mean, I don't even know, like, |
| 1:08.6 | I have the horrible. |
| 1:09.6 | If you're a diehard fan of like Rex Morgan MD, I don't really know what to say. |
| 1:13.5 | By the way, I read Haggar the Horrible with some frequency, but Rex Morgan, like all |
| 1:16.6 | the soap opera ones. |
| 1:18.0 | But if you're a fan of that, you are probably a hundred years old and not actually running |
| 1:22.5 | for president. |
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