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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 4: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 5: The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform.
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Speaker 3: Why are you yelling at me?
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Speaker 6: Strong stuff. The great Patrick Stewart has passed idiotically the lead story on ABC News last night.
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Speaker 3: Good lord.
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Speaker 6: I will tell you this. I've been whipsawed back and forth on Patrick Stewart. We don't usually talk about actors passing much.
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Speaker 3: He's no Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 6: Judy and I are big fans of Star Trek The Next Generation because we were very poor and we both liked it and we could watch it together. And liked Picard, his character, partly because he was very wise and paternal to the crew and that sort of thing. Then I found out yesterday that the great Shakespearean actor, Patrick Stewart, who only took that role because his friends all assured him it won't last. It'll last a year at most. Then you can get back to the stage. You'll have made some money. You'll get a tan in L.A. It'll be great. And it ended up lasting for seven years and spawning movies and the rest of it. But that he– what was I going to say? He– had several marriages and two children, and he always put his work first before family, and he had no relationship with his children when he died.
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Speaker 7: Fascinating.
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Speaker 6: So I thought, you're a rotten human being, you're a great actor, but that sucks, and I can't think highly of you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what we need to recognize... But, wait, there's more.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: Well, if there's more, I'll wait.
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Speaker 6: Okay. But then I've seen various scenes with him, like with Ricky Gervais, cracking each other up, cutting a scene together, And you have various stories he tells. Play 18 for us, Michael.
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Speaker 4: There was one night in a hotel somewhere. I had ordered room service, and I was flicking. And there was soundtrack, Next Generation. I'll just watch it for a couple of minutes. Well, I got hooked. And then there was a ring of the doorbell, and my room service order arrived. And the waiter came in, looked at me. And I thought, he's going to go away and tell the entire kitchen, it is the saddest thing I've ever done. This guy is upstairs alone, having room service, watching himself.
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Speaker 6: And so I just, there are some guys, I guess, who are not cut out for family life. I don't know. I don't want to let them off the hook.
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Speaker 3: And then what do we think of that? I know there's lots of celebrities like that that I wonder about. When it comes to actors particularly, it's stupid that we do this, but everybody does it. It's hard not to do it, to not think they are the main character we know them as. And that's who they are. The best example being Matthew Perry dying.
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Speaker 2: Chandler.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Chandler died. We're all like affected because Chandler died. We all like Chandler. Matthew Perry. The wise, cracking, and loyal friend. Well, Matthew Perry was mostly a dick. He was a drug addict dick.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Just was.
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Speaker 6: I loved him.
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Speaker 3: I loved Chandler. You know, poor Chandler. He's just kind of cute, kind of a nice guy, kind of bumbling, blah, blah, blah. Nice to his girlfriend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: That's got nothing to do.
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Speaker 3: With the actual guy.
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Speaker 2: Nothing. Nothing.
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Speaker 3: Separate it in your head, you moron. And when they die, you didn't lose Chandler. Chandler never existed. He lost some drug addict actor who spent his whole life doing bad things. So why are you sad about it? It's weird that we do this with actors. I never saw a moment of any show Patrick Stewart was in, but apparently he was an admirable character. So you're putting that on Patrick Stewart like that's.
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Speaker 6: Who he was.
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Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Or the guy from the X-Men.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 6: Another layer of it grew up a miserable childhood son of an abusive drunk who had come home from the bars and beat up wife and or kids, depending on his mood, and sought refuge on the stage, et cetera, et cetera. So he turned out to be not a good husband or dad himself. I don't know. I just I. Don't idolize actors. They're good at their jobs. So is your orthodontist.
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Speaker 3: Or any celebrity.
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Speaker 6: So is your school bus driver.
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Speaker 3: Or any celebrity, because you don't know them most of the time. Tiger Woods is a good example. The hole portrayed him as the great father. There would be his kids after he won the hole and everything like that before you knew who Tiger Woods really was. I mean, you don't know these people. You have no idea. And some of them are the other way around. They become villains in the sports world, or the role they play in the most famous show is kind of a bad person. And they're fantastic.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 6: Kind and generous. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of questionable fathering, it was funny. We were joking before this segment. Jack suggested we could go from that into this other thing. And I said, well, that's a great fit. And he's like, what are you going to fit with Patrick Stewart? How about Elon Musk? Speaking of space exploration and the bad fathers.
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Speaker 3: Actor was in a space show. Yes.
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Speaker 6: Okay. Yeah, it's as good as I got.
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Speaker 3: Take it or leave it. I love tons of stuff Elon does in his room and everything like that. I think the whole cranking out kids and not being there for them is just as awful as anything could be.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he's there for them financially.
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Speaker 3: Neither one of these positions makes sense, though. To discount the professional stuff someone does because they're a bad father doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 3: To idolize them.
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Speaker 3: Like that's all they are, though, as a human being without the fact that their personal lives are not what you like. Doesn't make any sense either. So I don't know where you land. I use the example. I'm a big fan of Christopher Hitchens thinking. Not all of it, but a lot of it. And I've read so many of his books and listen to him argue all the time. And I almost got to meet him till he died. Oh, anyway. But anyway, I remember in his memoir talking about how he just had no he did. He didn't like raising his kids. He just it was just it took up all my time and I had no time for that. And I thought, you dick.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Your kids really would have liked it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But you like to go sit and smoke cigarettes and drink wine and opine about things. But he was brilliant at opining. So where where do you I don't know. I don't know what you do with any of that information.
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Speaker 6: Love the art, not the artist. Anyway, so here's an ironic story. Elon Musk. This is absolutely true. A group of elementary school children, as many, many, many do, were touring the SpaceX facility in Florida. and were given a tour that ended in the Starship production bay. The Starship, that's the largest rocket ever built, 400 feet tall, gleaming in stainless steel, surrounded by all the machines and the wires and stuff like that. Can you imagine that as an elementary school kid? Just insane. And who should wander up to the tour but Elon Musk himself? Not scheduled to be there that day, but he decided to. And an employee who was present described what happened next as the most un-Elon moment they had ever witnessed. He got down on one knee with the little kids and he spoke to the children at their eye level. He answered every question they had. And interestingly, not with that kind of halting technical delivery he uses in press conferences, just simply and with patience talking to the kids in ways they could understand. Seven-year-old asked him if the rocket was going to the moon. He said, no, Mars. The child asked, what's on Mars? He said, nothing yet. That's why we're going. The child thought about this for several seconds and said, so we get to decide what's there? And Elon paused and said, he said, yes, you get to decide. And the employee said Elon's face during that exchange was the softest expression they had ever seen from him. Then another child asked if the rocket was scary. He said, the rocket's not scary. Not trying is scary. And the kids, of course, didn't understand this, but Elon didn't simplify it further. He just let the answer sit and let them all look around and think about what he had just said. And it's the same answer he gives at Stanford and at board meetings. He changed the vocabulary, but not the message. And the child received the same philosophy as the venture capitalists. Not trying is scary. The kids left with signed SpaceX patches, and Elon stayed in the production bay for 24 minutes after they left, just looking.
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Speaker 3: At the rocket.
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Speaker 6: He is an amazing, complicated, flawed, crazy, mercurial, super genius, strange human being.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think this topic is so interesting. So the judgment of his personal life is recent to history. You don't know what Newton was like to his wife and kids or Isaac Newton or.
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Speaker 6: Ah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Throughout history, all the great men, it was usually men back in the day, but great men and women, you don't know how awful a mom, you know, pick whatever famous historical figure was. Galileo, terrible tipper. But in the modern world, you do. And then did we have it right the first time to judge them by their great works and the personal stuff is a personal stuff? And then even without that, People that aren't cut out to be parents. do you just, is that a thing? Is there such thing as not cut out to be parents? Or are you just selfish and lazy and you don't want to do the hard work?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I know I've had this conversation with a bunch of different people, particularly people who had bad moms or dads. I'm thinking of somebody I know who their mom like took off early and was never around. And man, her story did, did one of her mom took off, ran off with some guy, then did one of the worst things I can imagine doing as a parent called home to this particular woman when she was like 10 and really missing her mom and needing her mom called home and said, good news. Mom is coming back. And she got so excited. Mom's coming back. And they just never heard from her again.
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Speaker 6: Oh my God. Wow.
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Speaker 3: Can you imagine? But anyway, so the point being, that person doesn't have the mom gene. Is that a thing? Or are you just selfish? Just a selfish jerk? I don't know. I actually don't know. Maybe some people don't have that. Like, it's not, I don't decide, and I don't think you did either. I don't decide to pay a lot of attention to my kids. I'm just driven to do it.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I hate to let people off the hook for not parenting, but maybe that's just not in their genetics.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but how do you, it reminds me of that question. Oh my God, there's a great piece in the free press recently about there are now other cases where women in particular are just so anxious to explain away women who murder their children in a way that is utterly, utterly incomprehensible to If it were a dude and these are not postpartum psychosis, this is just murdering their children. And and and she poses it and she brings up several specific cases of men who did the same for similar reasons or the same reasons as the murdering women did. But of course, they get zero sympathy. But in the modern world, the murdering moms get lots and lots of sympathy. In the same way that I think as a society, why don't we just go ahead and stick with, if you kill your children, you never get out of jail. No matter what other circumstances may be at play.
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Speaker 3: I'm fine with extending that, too. And if you have kids, you have to raise them, whether you're digging it or not.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. But they're intriguing questions, nonetheless.
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Speaker 3: And the ending of that is Patrick Stewart is dead. How old was he? Was he old? Oh, okay.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, beginnings of Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia.
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Speaker 3: I actually saw, I never saw any of him doing anything, but I saw a clip this morning of him. Apparently he was a recurring character just a couple of episodes on Frasier.
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Speaker 6: Fascinating.
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Speaker 3: A flamboyant gay guy and very, very funny and really good at that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't even remember that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty funny. I'll send you one of the clips that's making the rounds. That was a damn funny show. Let's talk about Frasier for half an hour. No, let's not. More on the way. Stay here.
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Speaker 7: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 9: All week, Trump has been targeting Michigan Democrat Abdul Al-Sayed. Trump has repeatedly tried to tie Al-Sayed to Islamic extremists, something the Democrat has vehemently denied. I asked Republican Mike Rogers if he believes the attacks have gone too far. Some of this rhetoric that's been used against him by people close to you, people advocating for you, that he is a terrorist, that he is a jihadist.
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Speaker 6: Do you think this goes too far? I have never called him any of those things. And in a campaign, you should see the things that they're talking about us.
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Speaker 3: How about, Jonathan Karl, the ad for El Sayed that suggests that the Jews are why eggs cost so much and you don't have health care?
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Speaker 6: Not only that, but Jonathan... Saying that El-Sayed has vehemently denied a connection to jihadists. No, he's barely denied it, then gotten vehement. And I realize I'm splitting hairs, but I think you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not splitting hairs. Those are very different things.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. He barely denies it, then gets all blustery about how dare you ask me. A vehement denial would be a long statement of why he rejects fundamentalist Islam.
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Speaker 3: So it is definitely an interesting topic of whether or not the Democratic Party is going to be run by socialists and anti-Israel, the anti-Israel crowd or not, or it's going to be more mainstream going forward. But in terms of who takes the House or the Senate, I just don't get why That is that interesting to people. So the stats on that, 12, the House is going to go to the Democrats Tuesday, whether you like it or not. The Senate, nobody knows. But so that'll be 12 out of the last 14 national elections have changed the House senator presidency. We don't hang on to the party in charge. We just don't. So it doesn't indicate anything. We just swing back and forth all the time.
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Speaker 6: I'd say given the incompetence of the Democratic Party and how out there they are, it indicates how incompetent the Republicans are that they couldn't hold on, that they couldn't buck the trend. But in the big picture, I know.
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Speaker 3: Only three times since the Civil War has the party in power not lost seats in the midterm. Only three times since the Civil War. So it's it's supposed to happen. So getting all excited about and then reporting on and drawing conclusions over what's supposed to happen just seems weird to me. Now, if the Republicans ended up holding on to the House and gaining Senate seats, that would be what's not supposed to happen. It would really be an indication of something huge.
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Speaker 6: I would agree. Yeah, but they blew it.
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Speaker 3: The presidential race, which starts Tuesday night, that I think is going to be an indication of something on particularly with the Democrats. Are you going to go Bernie AOC or are you going to go? more mainstream Democrat. That's a huge decision. I don't think they know either. I wonder what Chuck Schumer wants. The powerful Nancy Pelosi, if she still weighed in, she'd want mainstream, right?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they'd want moderate mainstream. Yeah, for sure. My question is kind of a similar question, but a couple of degrees off is, are we going to see any move by either of the parties? Probably not the Democrats because they're constantly mewling about democracy and even as their candidate in Alaska tries to undermine it. But are we going to see any move toward the parties taking more control of who is their candidate as opposed to just making it a populist mess at the midterms? Are they going to have a platform and choose a candidate, or are they just going to let the masses decide and say, all right, Joe Smith believes this. I guess that's our platform this time around.
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Speaker 3: Since Citizens United, which I agreed with, I'm not sure you can with the raising small money on Twitter and everything. Man, it's a complicated thing.
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Speaker 7: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 8: When we lose, we usually get mercied, which is you lose by more than 10 runs in a certain amount of innings. Even though through those large defeats, everyone has a blast on the team. We have a great time. Some players who have never played baseball before, they get a chance to play. I'd never played before, so I knew I wasn't going to make the team based off my skills, but I just tried to hype everybody up, be enthusiastic, a vibes guy, you might say.
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Speaker 6: It kind of sucks. I wish we won a game.
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Speaker 8: But in that same breath, not winning a game kind of taught me how to deal with losing, and maybe that can be a lesson for a future moment.
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Speaker 3: They sound so happy about it.
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Speaker 6: That's a Nova Scotia high school that hasn't won a game in high school baseball team that hasn't won a game in six years, and they don't mind. They're losers, in other words.
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Speaker 3: How is that possible? I mean, as a guy who's in the midst of following youth sports, you have classes where you have some good athletes and then you have a couple of good years. Then they graduate. Then you might be bad for a couple of years. As a high school football coach friend of mine says, you got to have the Jims and the Joes. It's all I mean, you can be whatever coach you want, but it's all about the Jims and the Joes. You know, you have class. But so in six years with various people graduating and new classes coming up, they've never had.
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Speaker 6: A couple of studs that could win a game? Not only not a winning season, not a game, not a single game. What is it, like some island with 30 people on it that they're all so busy fishing for lobsters that they can't play ball or what?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. And the smaller the school, the more likely it seems to me you'd have one good player one of those years who dominates the other teams. I mean, that's what I see usually.
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Speaker 6: But you can't dominate in baseball that way.
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Speaker 3: You wouldn't have one pitcher that could win games come through in six years?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, if you had a really dominant pitcher and could scrape one run across, I suppose it's possible, but it's a lot harder.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, at that age, though, the dominant pitcher is usually the guy is also going to hit the home run. It's the best athlete on the team.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. Well, if you're outnumbered nine to one, you're going to lose every game. Speaking, I'm calling an audible at the line, Michael, which is a poor metaphor since we're talking about baseball. Here is a Brewers fan, Dick Rice, well into his 80s, watching the Brew crew win, finally.
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Speaker 9: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 3: Boomer!
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Speaker 7: Boomer!
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Speaker 6: You got it!
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Speaker 3: Oh, man! That's a wiggle!
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Speaker 2: Gosh!
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Speaker 3: Oh, man!
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Speaker 6: Oh, man!
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Speaker 3: Oh, man!
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Speaker 8: Oh, man!
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Speaker 3: How was that? How was that?
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Speaker 6: Oh, man!
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Speaker 8: Oh, you could just be there for this.
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Speaker 6: This is....
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Speaker 7: Oh, man!
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Speaker 2: Brewers win!
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Speaker 3: Brewers win! Brewers win!
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Speaker 6: Calling out to the late Bob Euchre, who passed like six months too early to see his beloved Brewers win the World Series. I love the longtime mascot of, play-by-play guy, color commentator of the Brewers, part of their whole, just their soul, Bob Euchre.
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Speaker 3: I'll bet that was fun to win dad, grandpa, watch him finally get his team to win.
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Speaker 6: Uh-huh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Is the video cute? Yeah, his daughter posted that with the caption, he's been waiting his entire life for this. Super cool. Sacramento Kings fans, you better live to be 140.
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Speaker 6: And into the 15-foot rim era with computerized basketballs. Half the team is actually video game controllers.
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Speaker 3: So the collection of Dan Sullivan's in Alaska continues to be a story in politics. It's kind of interesting. And this lion liar, half a nut, she seems to me, Mary Poltoa, who's the Democratic candidate there in Alaska who came up with this genius ruse to go find a Dan Sullivan in a fishing village somewhere. She's continuing to say she knew nothing about it.
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Speaker 10: I knew nothing about about any other candidates on the ballot except for me and the incumbent.
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Speaker 2: That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters.
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Speaker 6: I know I can beat Dan Sullivan.
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Speaker 3: You're right. The anti-Democrats, New York Times, and their multiple sources. saying, hell yeah, she was involved and knew everything about it at every step. Who are you trying to kid? Your goose is.
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Speaker 6: Cooked there, sweetheart.
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Speaker 3: You know how the New York Times is out to flip the Senate Republican. That's their job over there at the New York Times. But here's an interesting angle of it I wasn't aware of until yesterday. So you got the Trump Justice Department wanting to file lawsuits and all these different things where all the legal experts that I like that I've been listening to saying there's nothing there's nothing there. I mean, there's no law against this. It should be way more things should be settled at the ballot box than through litigation, especially if our culture was better and people got punished for bad behavior. But anyway. Lisa Murkowski, who's the incumbent. Senator, it's not up for you know how it works in states, one of them is up and one of them is not. We stagger him, you know, the whole Senate thing. Did you learn that in school? Anyway, Lisa Murkowski is not up for reelection. She is. She said she wants the Trump Justice Department to stay out of Alaska. We can handle this in Alaska ourselves. I trust the voters to know which Dan Sullivan to vote for, et cetera, et cetera. She said that over the last weekend. Trump got really mad about that and sent off a bunch of truth social posts over the weekend calling Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator, the worst senator in the entire Senate, a disgrace to America and a disgrace to Alaska. And how she should be investigated. He thinks she cheated when she won her election. making it more likely, as some pundits believe is a possibility. You've heard about John Fetterman, the Democratic Pennsylvania senator. If it ends up being tied or the Democrats win by one, he might flip and be a Republican or vote with the Republicans because he doesn't like the Democratic Party that much. Well, Lisa Muskowski is the Republican version of that. There is talk that she might go with an argument of if they vote for Peltola. And the Senate's, you know, tied her down by one where she would come out and say, look, the voters of Alaska have shown that they want a Democratic Senate. And then she has leverage to say, and I want, you know, to Chuck Schumer, and I would like to be the chair of this committee and this committee. And she flips because she's so freaking pissed off at Trump for calling her a disgrace to her own state and to the United States of America. And I got to believe personally, if I was a U.S. senator from Kansas, my home state, and the president called me a disgrace to my state, that would piss me off. Yes.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it would. That was a terrible idea. Utter lack of discipline. Childhood.
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Speaker 2: Why?
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Speaker 6: Why?
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Speaker 3: Why do you do that, dude?
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Speaker 6: Because he has no self-control.
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Speaker 3: Oh, my God. But so whatever happens on Tuesday night, even if we get the results, if it's really close, there's still some shoes to drop, possibly, with at least two people, who knows, maybe more we don't know about, that'd be willing to switch sides for chairmanships and because they believe more of this and less of that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder. I still think Dan Sullivan, the real one, Well, they're both real ones, but you know what I mean. I think that the real Dan Sullivan is going to win.
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Speaker 3: I think so, too.
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Speaker 6: Which reminds me, just a quick message. If you could drop us a note, mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com, Gavin Bruce Newsome of Jonesville, Michigan, or Gavin Darren Newsome of Seymour, Tennessee. Here's a Gavin Newsome in Yukon, Oklahoma. That's all the Gavin Newsomes I can find. Oh, no, here's one in Matthews, North Carolina. I know where that is.
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Speaker 3: Did you see in the interviews with some of the people in that tiny little fishing village where the fake Dan... Well, he's not a fake Dan Sullivan, as you point out. He's actually Dan Sullivan.
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Speaker 6: His middle initial there was fake for a minute. Um.
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Speaker 3: I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often since you can go down to the courthouse and for like a hundred bucks, change your name to whatever the hell you want. I'm surprised that has that more often throughout history where people have done this sort of thing. Yeah. My name's Abraham Lincoln. What are you going to do about it? What were we just talking about?
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Speaker 6: You could absolutely get elected to a lot of offices if you change your name to Abraham Lincoln. I was just thinking I needed, it's funny, I was thinking I need a go-to Halloween costume. And I was thinking, you know, if I were to get the, you know, the kind of loose-fitting, old-timey-looking suit overcoat, the stovepipe hat, you know, I could shave my mustache every year and just rock the beard and be Lincoln every year.
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Speaker 3: He was slightly more svelte than you from all that rail splitting, I guess, all the manual labor.
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Speaker 6: Wow. Wow.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 6: Perhaps I'll wear a girdle or something. Just for that holy night of Halloween.
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Speaker 3: You're Abraham Lincoln if all-you-can-eat buffets were around.
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Speaker 6: Exactly. Hey, he dealt with pressure differently than I do. I'm an eater.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. Some people, they stop eating during a civil war and get really skinny. Some people, they eat their losses at Chancellorsville and gain weight. Exactly.
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Speaker 6: Exactly.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 6: An unfortunate, but hilarious, uh, joke there.
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Speaker 3: Um, but did you see the, in the, the interviews with the people who live in that tiny little fishing village where, uh, fake Dan Sullivan or not, not, not the normal, what are they called?
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Speaker 6: Second tier Dan Sullivan.
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Speaker 3: What's the name? They got a nickname for him.
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Speaker 6: Oh, uh, decoy Dan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Uh, the fishing village where decoy Dan lives. They interviewed some of the people there and it was kind of funny because it's a very small town in a very rural area, which I'm familiar with. Um, He doesn't seem like something Dan would do to me. I've known Dan my whole life, and I just can't picture him doing this. So I thought it was kind of funny.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh, well, he'll be a celebrity for the rest of his life. I'm Dan Sullivan. Wait a minute. Decoy Dan? That's me. And he'll shake hands and do appearances and stuff.
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Speaker 8: He won't.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. He'll be at the local Ford dealer. He'll only have to pay for a drink again in his life. Right.
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Speaker 6: Just pose for pictures. Yeah, that'll be great. But, Michael, what did you say in our ears? I didn't hear it. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, okay. We'll get to that in a second. Yeah, yeah, okay. I think she's going to lose. I think this is just so nakedly... She sounds like a dumb person to me. Ugly. Half-wit at best. I think she's of native extraction there in Alaska, and so she has a certain legitimacy that... And we've seen this in various ethnic enclaves. If you're the chosen... whatever, you're going to get the votes. And she's that for Native folks in Alaska. But it's a pretty moderate, pretty purple state, obviously, with Lisa Murkowski and the original Dan Sullivan. So, yes, a maneuver that nakedly insulting to the voters, that's going to hurt her.
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Speaker 3: Well, would you like to repeat to me what you told me about the Lindsey Graham sister, her day yesterday? Not impressive?
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Speaker 8: Well.
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Speaker 6: yeah. Trump held a rally in South Carolina and Luann from the King of the Hill, Darlene Graham, spoke for 82 seconds at the rally.
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Speaker 3: That was for her. The rally is to get her elected.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And she spoke for a minute and a minute. Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Essentially. And Trump then spoke at length and people were there to see Trump.
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Speaker 3: So I've seen some of these other rallies, though. The candidate usually speaks a lot longer than at least a couple.
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Speaker 6: Of minutes worth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And then the her opponent, Dr. Annie, up with transgender Andrews, was on Brett Baer's show. And Darlene sent a surrogate. to speak for her on Brett Baer. So, although she did, uh, Hannity later in the evening. So who knows? Maybe she's busy.
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Speaker 3: She, I, I've been saying this forever. You should, it was boom.
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Speaker 6: King of the hill joke there. King of the hill joke. That's it.
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Speaker 3: You shouldn't get elected just because you're glib. That shouldn't be extra points.
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Speaker 5: Really?
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Speaker 6: Sure.
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Speaker 3: Although as a U S Senator being glib, there are some advantages. Oration seems to be part of the job. Uh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Look, I hate that Trump endorsed Darlene Graham. She's just not cut out for the Senate. She doesn't have the stuff. And there are plenty of great South Carolina conservatives who would have stepped up and ran for office and won it. I don't like that. On the other hand, voting for Annie Andrews, whose policy views are abhorrent, I just– you know what it is? It's just– it's sapping voter enthusiasm. When you have a crappy candidate like that, a Ken Paxton, a Darlene Graham, who's, Darlene is a decent human being. I probably shouldn't mention her in the same sentence with Paxton.
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Speaker 3: So is Luann.
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Speaker 6: From King of the Hill?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a very, very nice person. She shouldn't be a U.S. Senator either.
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Speaker 6: I was tempted to do Luann, but your Luann is better, so I was saving the.
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Speaker 3: Stage for you. And it makes people more cynical about everything. When you have to go in and vote for a candidate that you don't think really is the greatest, either they're a crook or not the brightest bulb or whatever, it makes you more cynical about the whole thing.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it really does.
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Speaker 10: Would a Governor Becerra consider a vehicle miles traveled fee here in California?
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Speaker 3: Everything should be on the table. There you go. That's a guy that's going to be the Governor of California. Not enough ways to raise money off of you driving with the most expensive gas anywhere in America. Buy a lot. Now they're going to look at charging you for how many miles you drive. Because you know you need more money for roads and schools and whatnot.
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Speaker 6: And firefighters and teachers. Well, they're going to get you electric car driving scoff laws. You're not paying for any gas. Where do you get off? State like browbeating you to buy an electric car for 20 years and you finally do. When are you going to pay your fair share? That's what I want to know.
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Speaker 3: Do I have to hit the numbers again, the fair share thing? The top 25% of earners pay almost 90% of federal income taxes. What should it be?
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Speaker 2: 93!
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Speaker 3: When are you going to pay your fair share? Here's a little more of Bracera, however she said it. Congratulations.
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Speaker 10: You told me to address California's budget problems. You would raise taxes on the wealthy. but you are against Proposition 40, how would you raise taxes on the richest people in this state?
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Speaker 6: Fair share.
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Speaker 11: If we can prove that you're not paying your fair share, and.
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Speaker 6: To me that's pretty basic.
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Speaker 11: If you're a billionaire and you're paying at a lower tax rate than a firefighter, a teacher.
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Speaker 6: A nurse, you're not paying your fair share.
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Speaker 10: Are you taxing assets?
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Speaker 11: I would try to do it with income. When you start getting into assets, as Prop 40 does, you start to get into real complications. Having done tax policy for over 20 years in Congress, You want to make sure it's something that's fair, it's predictable, and it's stable.
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Speaker 10: Okay, but like stocks, bonds, their ownership stake?
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Speaker 11: There's a lot of corporate welfare where we give corporations tax breaks where they really don't need them. And if we can't give Californians good health care, why should we give corporations tax breaks?
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Speaker 3: That whole super-rich paying a lower tax rate than your receptionist canard... You know, this number top 1% pay about 40% of federal income taxes. And he's talking about raising state taxes and stuff. But just to give you an idea, top 1% play almost 40% of federal income taxes. What should it be if that's not your fair share? I mean, it's and I'm not in that.
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Speaker 6: So that 52 seconds was a master class in crap. I mean, there are so many different styles of crap there. So many different forms of crap.
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Speaker 3: So he's against the billionaire tax. I did not know that, which is going to go down in flames, thank God.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. The Wall Street Journal with a nice profile of the four intellectuals, three of them from UC Berkeley, two of them French, of all things. I mean, come on. The irony gendarmes need to come out into the streets. A couple of Frenchmen trying to push this idiotic. It only exists in universities. french concept that fails every time it's tried every time yet they're on the verge of getting it passed in cal unicornio it's amazing.
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Speaker 3: Man look into a couple of french economists for what we should do is a little too much isn't it it's a little too on the nose it's like a saturday night live bit fair share that's what i say fair share it's simple oh lord i don't If you missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty On Demand. You should subscribe. You'll get it all automatically every day.
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Speaker 3: Why are you yelling at me?
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Speaker 6: Strong stuff. The great Patrick Stewart has passed idiotically the lead story on ABC News last night.
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Speaker 3: Good lord.
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Speaker 6: I will tell you this. I've been whipsawed back and forth on Patrick Stewart. We don't usually talk about actors passing much.
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Speaker 3: He's no Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 6: Judy and I are big fans of Star Trek The Next Generation because we were very poor and we both liked it and we could watch it together. And liked Picard, his character, partly because he was very wise and paternal to the crew and that sort of thing. Then I found out yesterday that the great Shakespearean actor, Patrick Stewart, who only took that role because his friends all assured him it won't last. It'll last a year at most. Then you can get back to the stage. You'll have made some money. You'll get a tan in L.A. It'll be great. And it ended up lasting for seven years and spawning movies and the rest of it. But that he– what was I going to say? He– had several marriages and two children, and he always put his work first before family, and he had no relationship with his children when he died.
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Speaker 7: Fascinating.
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Speaker 6: So I thought, you're a rotten human being, you're a great actor, but that sucks, and I can't think highly of you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what we need to recognize... But, wait, there's more.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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Speaker 3: Well, if there's more, I'll wait.
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Speaker 6: Okay. But then I've seen various scenes with him, like with Ricky Gervais, cracking each other up, cutting a scene together, And you have various stories he tells. Play 18 for us, Michael.
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Speaker 4: There was one night in a hotel somewhere. I had ordered room service, and I was flicking. And there was soundtrack, Next Generation. I'll just watch it for a couple of minutes. Well, I got hooked. And then there was a ring of the doorbell, and my room service order arrived. And the waiter came in, looked at me. And I thought, he's going to go away and tell the entire kitchen, it is the saddest thing I've ever done. This guy is upstairs alone, having room service, watching himself.
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Speaker 6: And so I just, there are some guys, I guess, who are not cut out for family life. I don't know. I don't want to let them off the hook.
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Speaker 3: And then what do we think of that? I know there's lots of celebrities like that that I wonder about. When it comes to actors particularly, it's stupid that we do this, but everybody does it. It's hard not to do it, to not think they are the main character we know them as. And that's who they are. The best example being Matthew Perry dying.
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Speaker 2: Chandler.
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Speaker 3: Oh, Chandler died. We're all like affected because Chandler died. We all like Chandler. Matthew Perry. The wise, cracking, and loyal friend. Well, Matthew Perry was mostly a dick. He was a drug addict dick.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Just was.
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Speaker 6: I loved him.
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Speaker 3: I loved Chandler. You know, poor Chandler. He's just kind of cute, kind of a nice guy, kind of bumbling, blah, blah, blah. Nice to his girlfriend.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: That's got nothing to do.
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Speaker 3: With the actual guy.
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Speaker 2: Nothing. Nothing.
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Speaker 3: Separate it in your head, you moron. And when they die, you didn't lose Chandler. Chandler never existed. He lost some drug addict actor who spent his whole life doing bad things. So why are you sad about it? It's weird that we do this with actors. I never saw a moment of any show Patrick Stewart was in, but apparently he was an admirable character. So you're putting that on Patrick Stewart like that's.
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Speaker 6: Who he was.
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Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Or the guy from the X-Men.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 6: Another layer of it grew up a miserable childhood son of an abusive drunk who had come home from the bars and beat up wife and or kids, depending on his mood, and sought refuge on the stage, et cetera, et cetera. So he turned out to be not a good husband or dad himself. I don't know. I just I. Don't idolize actors. They're good at their jobs. So is your orthodontist.
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Speaker 3: Or any celebrity.
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Speaker 6: So is your school bus driver.
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Speaker 3: Or any celebrity, because you don't know them most of the time. Tiger Woods is a good example. The hole portrayed him as the great father. There would be his kids after he won the hole and everything like that before you knew who Tiger Woods really was. I mean, you don't know these people. You have no idea. And some of them are the other way around. They become villains in the sports world, or the role they play in the most famous show is kind of a bad person. And they're fantastic.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 6: Kind and generous. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of questionable fathering, it was funny. We were joking before this segment. Jack suggested we could go from that into this other thing. And I said, well, that's a great fit. And he's like, what are you going to fit with Patrick Stewart? How about Elon Musk? Speaking of space exploration and the bad fathers.
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Speaker 3: Actor was in a space show. Yes.
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Speaker 6: Okay. Yeah, it's as good as I got.
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Speaker 3: Take it or leave it. I love tons of stuff Elon does in his room and everything like that. I think the whole cranking out kids and not being there for them is just as awful as anything could be.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, he's there for them financially.
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Speaker 3: Neither one of these positions makes sense, though. To discount the professional stuff someone does because they're a bad father doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 3: To idolize them.
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Speaker 3: Like that's all they are, though, as a human being without the fact that their personal lives are not what you like. Doesn't make any sense either. So I don't know where you land. I use the example. I'm a big fan of Christopher Hitchens thinking. Not all of it, but a lot of it. And I've read so many of his books and listen to him argue all the time. And I almost got to meet him till he died. Oh, anyway. But anyway, I remember in his memoir talking about how he just had no he did. He didn't like raising his kids. He just it was just it took up all my time and I had no time for that. And I thought, you dick.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Your kids really would have liked it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But you like to go sit and smoke cigarettes and drink wine and opine about things. But he was brilliant at opining. So where where do you I don't know. I don't know what you do with any of that information.
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Speaker 6: Love the art, not the artist. Anyway, so here's an ironic story. Elon Musk. This is absolutely true. A group of elementary school children, as many, many, many do, were touring the SpaceX facility in Florida. and were given a tour that ended in the Starship production bay. The Starship, that's the largest rocket ever built, 400 feet tall, gleaming in stainless steel, surrounded by all the machines and the wires and stuff like that. Can you imagine that as an elementary school kid? Just insane. And who should wander up to the tour but Elon Musk himself? Not scheduled to be there that day, but he decided to. And an employee who was present described what happened next as the most un-Elon moment they had ever witnessed. He got down on one knee with the little kids and he spoke to the children at their eye level. He answered every question they had. And interestingly, not with that kind of halting technical delivery he uses in press conferences, just simply and with patience talking to the kids in ways they could understand. Seven-year-old asked him if the rocket was going to the moon. He said, no, Mars. The child asked, what's on Mars? He said, nothing yet. That's why we're going. The child thought about this for several seconds and said, so we get to decide what's there? And Elon paused and said, he said, yes, you get to decide. And the employee said Elon's face during that exchange was the softest expression they had ever seen from him. Then another child asked if the rocket was scary. He said, the rocket's not scary. Not trying is scary. And the kids, of course, didn't understand this, but Elon didn't simplify it further. He just let the answer sit and let them all look around and think about what he had just said. And it's the same answer he gives at Stanford and at board meetings. He changed the vocabulary, but not the message. And the child received the same philosophy as the venture capitalists. Not trying is scary. The kids left with signed SpaceX patches, and Elon stayed in the production bay for 24 minutes after they left, just looking.
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Speaker 3: At the rocket.
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Speaker 6: He is an amazing, complicated, flawed, crazy, mercurial, super genius, strange human being.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think this topic is so interesting. So the judgment of his personal life is recent to history. You don't know what Newton was like to his wife and kids or Isaac Newton or.
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Speaker 6: Ah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: Throughout history, all the great men, it was usually men back in the day, but great men and women, you don't know how awful a mom, you know, pick whatever famous historical figure was. Galileo, terrible tipper. But in the modern world, you do. And then did we have it right the first time to judge them by their great works and the personal stuff is a personal stuff? And then even without that, People that aren't cut out to be parents. do you just, is that a thing? Is there such thing as not cut out to be parents? Or are you just selfish and lazy and you don't want to do the hard work?
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I know I've had this conversation with a bunch of different people, particularly people who had bad moms or dads. I'm thinking of somebody I know who their mom like took off early and was never around. And man, her story did, did one of her mom took off, ran off with some guy, then did one of the worst things I can imagine doing as a parent called home to this particular woman when she was like 10 and really missing her mom and needing her mom called home and said, good news. Mom is coming back. And she got so excited. Mom's coming back. And they just never heard from her again.
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Speaker 6: Oh my God. Wow.
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Speaker 3: Can you imagine? But anyway, so the point being, that person doesn't have the mom gene. Is that a thing? Or are you just selfish? Just a selfish jerk? I don't know. I actually don't know. Maybe some people don't have that. Like, it's not, I don't decide, and I don't think you did either. I don't decide to pay a lot of attention to my kids. I'm just driven to do it.
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I hate to let people off the hook for not parenting, but maybe that's just not in their genetics.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but how do you, it reminds me of that question. Oh my God, there's a great piece in the free press recently about there are now other cases where women in particular are just so anxious to explain away women who murder their children in a way that is utterly, utterly incomprehensible to If it were a dude and these are not postpartum psychosis, this is just murdering their children. And and and she poses it and she brings up several specific cases of men who did the same for similar reasons or the same reasons as the murdering women did. But of course, they get zero sympathy. But in the modern world, the murdering moms get lots and lots of sympathy. In the same way that I think as a society, why don't we just go ahead and stick with, if you kill your children, you never get out of jail. No matter what other circumstances may be at play.
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Speaker 3: I'm fine with extending that, too. And if you have kids, you have to raise them, whether you're digging it or not.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. But they're intriguing questions, nonetheless.
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Speaker 3: And the ending of that is Patrick Stewart is dead. How old was he? Was he old? Oh, okay.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, beginnings of Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia.
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Speaker 3: I actually saw, I never saw any of him doing anything, but I saw a clip this morning of him. Apparently he was a recurring character just a couple of episodes on Frasier.
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Speaker 6: Fascinating.
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Speaker 3: A flamboyant gay guy and very, very funny and really good at that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't even remember that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty funny. I'll send you one of the clips that's making the rounds. That was a damn funny show. Let's talk about Frasier for half an hour. No, let's not. More on the way. Stay here.
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Speaker 9: All week, Trump has been targeting Michigan Democrat Abdul Al-Sayed. Trump has repeatedly tried to tie Al-Sayed to Islamic extremists, something the Democrat has vehemently denied. I asked Republican Mike Rogers if he believes the attacks have gone too far. Some of this rhetoric that's been used against him by people close to you, people advocating for you, that he is a terrorist, that he is a jihadist.
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Speaker 6: Do you think this goes too far? I have never called him any of those things. And in a campaign, you should see the things that they're talking about us.
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Speaker 3: How about, Jonathan Karl, the ad for El Sayed that suggests that the Jews are why eggs cost so much and you don't have health care?
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Speaker 6: Not only that, but Jonathan... Saying that El-Sayed has vehemently denied a connection to jihadists. No, he's barely denied it, then gotten vehement. And I realize I'm splitting hairs, but I think you know what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not splitting hairs. Those are very different things.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. He barely denies it, then gets all blustery about how dare you ask me. A vehement denial would be a long statement of why he rejects fundamentalist Islam.
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Speaker 3: So it is definitely an interesting topic of whether or not the Democratic Party is going to be run by socialists and anti-Israel, the anti-Israel crowd or not, or it's going to be more mainstream going forward. But in terms of who takes the House or the Senate, I just don't get why That is that interesting to people. So the stats on that, 12, the House is going to go to the Democrats Tuesday, whether you like it or not. The Senate, nobody knows. But so that'll be 12 out of the last 14 national elections have changed the House senator presidency. We don't hang on to the party in charge. We just don't. So it doesn't indicate anything. We just swing back and forth all the time.
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Speaker 6: I'd say given the incompetence of the Democratic Party and how out there they are, it indicates how incompetent the Republicans are that they couldn't hold on, that they couldn't buck the trend. But in the big picture, I know.
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Speaker 3: Only three times since the Civil War has the party in power not lost seats in the midterm. Only three times since the Civil War. So it's it's supposed to happen. So getting all excited about and then reporting on and drawing conclusions over what's supposed to happen just seems weird to me. Now, if the Republicans ended up holding on to the House and gaining Senate seats, that would be what's not supposed to happen. It would really be an indication of something huge.
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Speaker 6: I would agree. Yeah, but they blew it.
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Speaker 3: The presidential race, which starts Tuesday night, that I think is going to be an indication of something on particularly with the Democrats. Are you going to go Bernie AOC or are you going to go? more mainstream Democrat. That's a huge decision. I don't think they know either. I wonder what Chuck Schumer wants. The powerful Nancy Pelosi, if she still weighed in, she'd want mainstream, right?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they'd want moderate mainstream. Yeah, for sure. My question is kind of a similar question, but a couple of degrees off is, are we going to see any move by either of the parties? Probably not the Democrats because they're constantly mewling about democracy and even as their candidate in Alaska tries to undermine it. But are we going to see any move toward the parties taking more control of who is their candidate as opposed to just making it a populist mess at the midterms? Are they going to have a platform and choose a candidate, or are they just going to let the masses decide and say, all right, Joe Smith believes this. I guess that's our platform this time around.
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Speaker 3: Since Citizens United, which I agreed with, I'm not sure you can with the raising small money on Twitter and everything. Man, it's a complicated thing.
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Speaker 8: When we lose, we usually get mercied, which is you lose by more than 10 runs in a certain amount of innings. Even though through those large defeats, everyone has a blast on the team. We have a great time. Some players who have never played baseball before, they get a chance to play. I'd never played before, so I knew I wasn't going to make the team based off my skills, but I just tried to hype everybody up, be enthusiastic, a vibes guy, you might say.
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Speaker 6: It kind of sucks. I wish we won a game.
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Speaker 8: But in that same breath, not winning a game kind of taught me how to deal with losing, and maybe that can be a lesson for a future moment.
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Speaker 3: They sound so happy about it.
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Speaker 6: That's a Nova Scotia high school that hasn't won a game in high school baseball team that hasn't won a game in six years, and they don't mind. They're losers, in other words.
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Speaker 3: How is that possible? I mean, as a guy who's in the midst of following youth sports, you have classes where you have some good athletes and then you have a couple of good years. Then they graduate. Then you might be bad for a couple of years. As a high school football coach friend of mine says, you got to have the Jims and the Joes. It's all I mean, you can be whatever coach you want, but it's all about the Jims and the Joes. You know, you have class. But so in six years with various people graduating and new classes coming up, they've never had.
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Speaker 6: A couple of studs that could win a game? Not only not a winning season, not a game, not a single game. What is it, like some island with 30 people on it that they're all so busy fishing for lobsters that they can't play ball or what?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. And the smaller the school, the more likely it seems to me you'd have one good player one of those years who dominates the other teams. I mean, that's what I see usually.
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Speaker 6: But you can't dominate in baseball that way.
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Speaker 3: You wouldn't have one pitcher that could win games come through in six years?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, if you had a really dominant pitcher and could scrape one run across, I suppose it's possible, but it's a lot harder.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, at that age, though, the dominant pitcher is usually the guy is also going to hit the home run. It's the best athlete on the team.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. Well, if you're outnumbered nine to one, you're going to lose every game. Speaking, I'm calling an audible at the line, Michael, which is a poor metaphor since we're talking about baseball. Here is a Brewers fan, Dick Rice, well into his 80s, watching the Brew crew win, finally.
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Speaker 9: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 3: Boomer!
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Speaker 7: Boomer!
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Speaker 6: You got it!
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Speaker 3: Oh, man! That's a wiggle!
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Speaker 2: Gosh!
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Speaker 3: Oh, man!
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Speaker 6: Oh, man!
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Speaker 3: Oh, man!
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Speaker 8: Oh, man!
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Speaker 3: How was that? How was that?
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Speaker 6: Oh, man!
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Speaker 8: Oh, you could just be there for this.
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Speaker 6: This is....
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Speaker 7: Oh, man!
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Speaker 2: Brewers win!
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Speaker 3: Brewers win! Brewers win!
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Speaker 6: Calling out to the late Bob Euchre, who passed like six months too early to see his beloved Brewers win the World Series. I love the longtime mascot of, play-by-play guy, color commentator of the Brewers, part of their whole, just their soul, Bob Euchre.
00:20:54
Speaker 3: I'll bet that was fun to win dad, grandpa, watch him finally get his team to win.
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Speaker 6: Uh-huh, yeah.
00:21:02
Speaker 3: Is the video cute? Yeah, his daughter posted that with the caption, he's been waiting his entire life for this. Super cool. Sacramento Kings fans, you better live to be 140.
00:21:14
Speaker 6: And into the 15-foot rim era with computerized basketballs. Half the team is actually video game controllers.
00:21:29
Speaker 3: So the collection of Dan Sullivan's in Alaska continues to be a story in politics. It's kind of interesting. And this lion liar, half a nut, she seems to me, Mary Poltoa, who's the Democratic candidate there in Alaska who came up with this genius ruse to go find a Dan Sullivan in a fishing village somewhere. She's continuing to say she knew nothing about it.
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Speaker 10: I knew nothing about about any other candidates on the ballot except for me and the incumbent.
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Speaker 2: That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters.
00:22:10
Speaker 6: I know I can beat Dan Sullivan.
00:22:12
Speaker 3: You're right. The anti-Democrats, New York Times, and their multiple sources. saying, hell yeah, she was involved and knew everything about it at every step. Who are you trying to kid? Your goose is.
00:22:25
Speaker 6: Cooked there, sweetheart.
00:22:26
Speaker 3: You know how the New York Times is out to flip the Senate Republican. That's their job over there at the New York Times. But here's an interesting angle of it I wasn't aware of until yesterday. So you got the Trump Justice Department wanting to file lawsuits and all these different things where all the legal experts that I like that I've been listening to saying there's nothing there's nothing there. I mean, there's no law against this. It should be way more things should be settled at the ballot box than through litigation, especially if our culture was better and people got punished for bad behavior. But anyway. Lisa Murkowski, who's the incumbent. Senator, it's not up for you know how it works in states, one of them is up and one of them is not. We stagger him, you know, the whole Senate thing. Did you learn that in school? Anyway, Lisa Murkowski is not up for reelection. She is. She said she wants the Trump Justice Department to stay out of Alaska. We can handle this in Alaska ourselves. I trust the voters to know which Dan Sullivan to vote for, et cetera, et cetera. She said that over the last weekend. Trump got really mad about that and sent off a bunch of truth social posts over the weekend calling Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator, the worst senator in the entire Senate, a disgrace to America and a disgrace to Alaska. And how she should be investigated. He thinks she cheated when she won her election. making it more likely, as some pundits believe is a possibility. You've heard about John Fetterman, the Democratic Pennsylvania senator. If it ends up being tied or the Democrats win by one, he might flip and be a Republican or vote with the Republicans because he doesn't like the Democratic Party that much. Well, Lisa Muskowski is the Republican version of that. There is talk that she might go with an argument of if they vote for Peltola. And the Senate's, you know, tied her down by one where she would come out and say, look, the voters of Alaska have shown that they want a Democratic Senate. And then she has leverage to say, and I want, you know, to Chuck Schumer, and I would like to be the chair of this committee and this committee. And she flips because she's so freaking pissed off at Trump for calling her a disgrace to her own state and to the United States of America. And I got to believe personally, if I was a U.S. senator from Kansas, my home state, and the president called me a disgrace to my state, that would piss me off. Yes.
00:24:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, it would. That was a terrible idea. Utter lack of discipline. Childhood.
00:25:04
Speaker 2: Why?
00:25:04
Speaker 6: Why?
00:25:06
Speaker 3: Why do you do that, dude?
00:25:07
Speaker 6: Because he has no self-control.
00:25:10
Speaker 3: Oh, my God. But so whatever happens on Tuesday night, even if we get the results, if it's really close, there's still some shoes to drop, possibly, with at least two people, who knows, maybe more we don't know about, that'd be willing to switch sides for chairmanships and because they believe more of this and less of that.
00:25:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wonder. I still think Dan Sullivan, the real one, Well, they're both real ones, but you know what I mean. I think that the real Dan Sullivan is going to win.
00:25:40
Speaker 3: I think so, too.
00:25:41
Speaker 6: Which reminds me, just a quick message. If you could drop us a note, mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com, Gavin Bruce Newsome of Jonesville, Michigan, or Gavin Darren Newsome of Seymour, Tennessee. Here's a Gavin Newsome in Yukon, Oklahoma. That's all the Gavin Newsomes I can find. Oh, no, here's one in Matthews, North Carolina. I know where that is.
00:26:08
Speaker 3: Did you see in the interviews with some of the people in that tiny little fishing village where the fake Dan... Well, he's not a fake Dan Sullivan, as you point out. He's actually Dan Sullivan.
00:26:16
Speaker 6: His middle initial there was fake for a minute. Um.
00:26:20
Speaker 3: I'm surprised this hasn't happened more often since you can go down to the courthouse and for like a hundred bucks, change your name to whatever the hell you want. I'm surprised that has that more often throughout history where people have done this sort of thing. Yeah. My name's Abraham Lincoln. What are you going to do about it? What were we just talking about?
00:26:37
Speaker 6: You could absolutely get elected to a lot of offices if you change your name to Abraham Lincoln. I was just thinking I needed, it's funny, I was thinking I need a go-to Halloween costume. And I was thinking, you know, if I were to get the, you know, the kind of loose-fitting, old-timey-looking suit overcoat, the stovepipe hat, you know, I could shave my mustache every year and just rock the beard and be Lincoln every year.
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Speaker 3: He was slightly more svelte than you from all that rail splitting, I guess, all the manual labor.
00:27:06
Speaker 6: Wow. Wow.
00:27:09
Speaker 8: Wow.
00:27:10
Speaker 6: Perhaps I'll wear a girdle or something. Just for that holy night of Halloween.
00:27:16
Speaker 3: You're Abraham Lincoln if all-you-can-eat buffets were around.
00:27:21
Speaker 6: Exactly. Hey, he dealt with pressure differently than I do. I'm an eater.
00:27:28
Speaker 3: Exactly. Some people, they stop eating during a civil war and get really skinny. Some people, they eat their losses at Chancellorsville and gain weight. Exactly.
00:27:39
Speaker 6: Exactly.
00:27:41
Speaker 8: Wow.
00:27:41
Speaker 6: An unfortunate, but hilarious, uh, joke there.
00:27:45
Speaker 3: Um, but did you see the, in the, the interviews with the people who live in that tiny little fishing village where, uh, fake Dan Sullivan or not, not, not the normal, what are they called?
00:27:55
Speaker 6: Second tier Dan Sullivan.
00:27:57
Speaker 3: What's the name? They got a nickname for him.
00:28:00
Speaker 6: Oh, uh, decoy Dan.
00:28:02
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:28:02
Speaker 3: Uh, the fishing village where decoy Dan lives. They interviewed some of the people there and it was kind of funny because it's a very small town in a very rural area, which I'm familiar with. Um, He doesn't seem like something Dan would do to me. I've known Dan my whole life, and I just can't picture him doing this. So I thought it was kind of funny.
00:28:22
Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh, well, he'll be a celebrity for the rest of his life. I'm Dan Sullivan. Wait a minute. Decoy Dan? That's me. And he'll shake hands and do appearances and stuff.
00:28:31
Speaker 8: He won't.
00:28:32
Speaker 3: Exactly. He'll be at the local Ford dealer. He'll only have to pay for a drink again in his life. Right.
00:28:37
Speaker 6: Just pose for pictures. Yeah, that'll be great. But, Michael, what did you say in our ears? I didn't hear it. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, okay. We'll get to that in a second. Yeah, yeah, okay. I think she's going to lose. I think this is just so nakedly... She sounds like a dumb person to me. Ugly. Half-wit at best. I think she's of native extraction there in Alaska, and so she has a certain legitimacy that... And we've seen this in various ethnic enclaves. If you're the chosen... whatever, you're going to get the votes. And she's that for Native folks in Alaska. But it's a pretty moderate, pretty purple state, obviously, with Lisa Murkowski and the original Dan Sullivan. So, yes, a maneuver that nakedly insulting to the voters, that's going to hurt her.
00:29:29
Speaker 3: Well, would you like to repeat to me what you told me about the Lindsey Graham sister, her day yesterday? Not impressive?
00:29:39
Speaker 8: Well.
00:29:40
Speaker 6: yeah. Trump held a rally in South Carolina and Luann from the King of the Hill, Darlene Graham, spoke for 82 seconds at the rally.
00:29:54
Speaker 3: That was for her. The rally is to get her elected.
00:29:57
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:29:58
Speaker 3: And she spoke for a minute and a minute. Yeah.
00:30:00
Speaker 6: Yeah. Essentially. And Trump then spoke at length and people were there to see Trump.
00:30:04
Speaker 3: So I've seen some of these other rallies, though. The candidate usually speaks a lot longer than at least a couple.
00:30:10
Speaker 6: Of minutes worth.
00:30:11
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:30:11
Speaker 6: And then the her opponent, Dr. Annie, up with transgender Andrews, was on Brett Baer's show. And Darlene sent a surrogate. to speak for her on Brett Baer. So, although she did, uh, Hannity later in the evening. So who knows? Maybe she's busy.
00:30:30
Speaker 3: She, I, I've been saying this forever. You should, it was boom.
00:30:36
Speaker 6: King of the hill joke there. King of the hill joke. That's it.
00:30:39
Speaker 3: You shouldn't get elected just because you're glib. That shouldn't be extra points.
00:30:43
Speaker 5: Really?
00:30:43
Speaker 6: Sure.
00:30:43
Speaker 3: Although as a U S Senator being glib, there are some advantages. Oration seems to be part of the job. Uh, yeah.
00:30:52
Speaker 6: Look, I hate that Trump endorsed Darlene Graham. She's just not cut out for the Senate. She doesn't have the stuff. And there are plenty of great South Carolina conservatives who would have stepped up and ran for office and won it. I don't like that. On the other hand, voting for Annie Andrews, whose policy views are abhorrent, I just– you know what it is? It's just– it's sapping voter enthusiasm. When you have a crappy candidate like that, a Ken Paxton, a Darlene Graham, who's, Darlene is a decent human being. I probably shouldn't mention her in the same sentence with Paxton.
00:31:31
Speaker 3: So is Luann.
00:31:33
Speaker 6: From King of the Hill?
00:31:34
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a very, very nice person. She shouldn't be a U.S. Senator either.
00:31:37
Speaker 6: I was tempted to do Luann, but your Luann is better, so I was saving the.
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00:31:59
Speaker 6: Yeah, it really does.
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Speaker 10: Would a Governor Becerra consider a vehicle miles traveled fee here in California?
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Speaker 3: Everything should be on the table. There you go. That's a guy that's going to be the Governor of California. Not enough ways to raise money off of you driving with the most expensive gas anywhere in America. Buy a lot. Now they're going to look at charging you for how many miles you drive. Because you know you need more money for roads and schools and whatnot.
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Speaker 6: And firefighters and teachers. Well, they're going to get you electric car driving scoff laws. You're not paying for any gas. Where do you get off? State like browbeating you to buy an electric car for 20 years and you finally do. When are you going to pay your fair share? That's what I want to know.
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Speaker 3: Do I have to hit the numbers again, the fair share thing? The top 25% of earners pay almost 90% of federal income taxes. What should it be?
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Speaker 2: 93!
00:34:20
Speaker 3: When are you going to pay your fair share? Here's a little more of Bracera, however she said it. Congratulations.
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Speaker 10: You told me to address California's budget problems. You would raise taxes on the wealthy. but you are against Proposition 40, how would you raise taxes on the richest people in this state?
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Speaker 6: Fair share.
00:34:40
Speaker 11: If we can prove that you're not paying your fair share, and.
00:34:43
Speaker 6: To me that's pretty basic.
00:34:44
Speaker 11: If you're a billionaire and you're paying at a lower tax rate than a firefighter, a teacher.
00:34:50
Speaker 6: A nurse, you're not paying your fair share.
00:34:52
Speaker 10: Are you taxing assets?
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Speaker 11: I would try to do it with income. When you start getting into assets, as Prop 40 does, you start to get into real complications. Having done tax policy for over 20 years in Congress, You want to make sure it's something that's fair, it's predictable, and it's stable.
00:35:07
Speaker 10: Okay, but like stocks, bonds, their ownership stake?
00:35:10
Speaker 11: There's a lot of corporate welfare where we give corporations tax breaks where they really don't need them. And if we can't give Californians good health care, why should we give corporations tax breaks?
00:35:23
Speaker 3: That whole super-rich paying a lower tax rate than your receptionist canard... You know, this number top 1% pay about 40% of federal income taxes. And he's talking about raising state taxes and stuff. But just to give you an idea, top 1% play almost 40% of federal income taxes. What should it be if that's not your fair share? I mean, it's and I'm not in that.
00:35:46
Speaker 6: So that 52 seconds was a master class in crap. I mean, there are so many different styles of crap there. So many different forms of crap.
00:35:58
Speaker 3: So he's against the billionaire tax. I did not know that, which is going to go down in flames, thank God.
00:36:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah. The Wall Street Journal with a nice profile of the four intellectuals, three of them from UC Berkeley, two of them French, of all things. I mean, come on. The irony gendarmes need to come out into the streets. A couple of Frenchmen trying to push this idiotic. It only exists in universities. french concept that fails every time it's tried every time yet they're on the verge of getting it passed in cal unicornio it's amazing.
00:36:35
Speaker 3: Man look into a couple of french economists for what we should do is a little too much isn't it it's a little too on the nose it's like a saturday night live bit fair share that's what i say fair share it's simple oh lord i don't If you missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty On Demand. You should subscribe. You'll get it all automatically every day.
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