WEBVTT - The Wisecracking & Loyal Friend! 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.200 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.489 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. 0:00:17.670 --> 0:00:19.029 Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:19.190 --> 0:00:24.709 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:31.820 --> 0:00:35.400 The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.089 whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. 0:00:39.770 --> 0:00:41.990 It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. 0:00:42.310 --> 0:00:44.670 If you can't find it within yourself to stand up 0:00:44.729 --> 0:00:46.670 and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve 0:00:46.690 --> 0:00:47.530 to wear that uniform. 0:00:47.690 --> 0:00:48.630 Why are you yelling at me? 0:00:49.250 --> 0:00:53.050 Strong stuff. The great Patrick Stewart has passed idiotically the 0:00:53.130 --> 0:00:55.700 lead story on ABC News last night. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:57.240 Good lord. 0:00:57.900 --> 0:00:59.900 I will tell you this. I've been whipsawed back and 0:00:59.940 --> 0:01:02.660 forth on Patrick Stewart. We don't usually talk about actors 0:01:02.740 --> 0:01:03.560 passing much. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:05.819 He's no Dolly Parton. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:08.740 Judy and I are big fans of Star Trek The 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.410 Next Generation because we were very poor and we both 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.230 liked it and we could watch it together. And liked Picard, 0:01:15.610 --> 0:01:19.789 his character, partly because he was very wise and paternal 0:01:19.850 --> 0:01:21.590 to the crew and that sort of thing. Then I 0:01:21.630 --> 0:01:25.170 found out yesterday that the great Shakespearean actor, Patrick Stewart, 0:01:25.940 --> 0:01:28.340 who only took that role because his friends all assured 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.380 him it won't last. It'll last a year at most. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.640 Then you can get back to the stage. You'll have 0:01:32.660 --> 0:01:34.860 made some money. You'll get a tan in L.A. It'll 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.390 be great. And it ended up lasting for seven years 0:01:38.230 --> 0:01:42.860 and spawning movies and the rest of it. But that he– 0:01:43.250 --> 0:01:49.740 what was I going to say? He– had several marriages 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:52.320 and two children, and he always put his work first 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.440 before family, and he had no relationship with his children 0:01:55.460 --> 0:01:55.900 when he died. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.000 Fascinating. 0:01:57.020 --> 0:01:59.950 So I thought, you're a rotten human being, you're a 0:01:59.970 --> 0:02:03.150 great actor, but that sucks, and I can't think highly 0:02:03.190 --> 0:02:03.410 of you. 0:02:03.630 --> 0:02:06.550 Yeah, what we need to recognize... But, wait, there's more. 0:02:06.970 --> 0:02:07.250 Go ahead. 0:02:08.530 --> 0:02:09.310 Well, if there's more, I'll wait. 0:02:09.850 --> 0:02:14.070 Okay. But then I've seen various scenes with him, like 0:02:14.190 --> 0:02:17.720 with Ricky Gervais, cracking each other up, cutting a scene together, 0:02:18.180 --> 0:02:23.360 And you have various stories he tells. Play 18 for us, Michael. 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:27.280 There was one night in a hotel somewhere. I had 0:02:27.380 --> 0:02:30.930 ordered room service, and I was flicking. And there was soundtrack, 0:02:30.970 --> 0:02:33.830 Next Generation. I'll just watch it for a couple of minutes. Well, 0:02:34.010 --> 0:02:36.010 I got hooked. And then there was a ring of 0:02:36.030 --> 0:02:38.889 the doorbell, and my room service order arrived. And the 0:02:39.070 --> 0:02:44.630 waiter came in, looked at me. And I thought, he's 0:02:44.669 --> 0:02:47.050 going to go away and tell the entire kitchen, it 0:02:47.150 --> 0:02:51.030 is the saddest thing I've ever done. This guy is 0:02:51.130 --> 0:02:58.130 upstairs alone, having room service, watching himself. 0:02:58.620 --> 0:03:02.980 And so I just, there are some guys, I guess, 0:03:03.980 --> 0:03:07.740 who are not cut out for family life. I don't know. 0:03:07.900 --> 0:03:09.220 I don't want to let them off the hook. 0:03:09.300 --> 0:03:10.720 And then what do we think of that? I know 0:03:10.820 --> 0:03:13.060 there's lots of celebrities like that that I wonder about. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:21.549 When it comes to actors particularly, it's stupid that we 0:03:21.570 --> 0:03:23.550 do this, but everybody does it. It's hard not to 0:03:23.610 --> 0:03:27.500 do it, to not think they are the main character 0:03:27.540 --> 0:03:31.889 we know them as. And that's who they are. The 0:03:31.910 --> 0:03:34.520 best example being Matthew Perry dying. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:35.120 Chandler. 0:03:35.220 --> 0:03:38.620 Oh, Chandler died. We're all like affected because Chandler died. 0:03:38.660 --> 0:03:41.160 We all like Chandler. Matthew Perry. The wise, cracking, and 0:03:41.220 --> 0:03:44.020 loyal friend. Well, Matthew Perry was mostly a dick. He 0:03:44.040 --> 0:03:45.320 was a drug addict dick. 0:03:46.050 --> 0:03:46.250 Yeah. 0:03:46.570 --> 0:03:47.210 Just was. 0:03:47.230 --> 0:03:48.480 I loved him. 0:03:48.670 --> 0:03:51.490 I loved Chandler. You know, poor Chandler. He's just kind 0:03:51.510 --> 0:03:53.870 of cute, kind of a nice guy, kind of bumbling, blah, blah, blah. 0:03:53.950 --> 0:03:54.670 Nice to his girlfriend. 0:03:54.690 --> 0:03:54.770 Yeah. 0:03:55.410 --> 0:03:56.610 That's got nothing to do. 0:03:56.470 --> 0:03:57.630 With the actual guy. 0:03:57.650 --> 0:03:58.690 Nothing. Nothing. 0:03:58.790 --> 0:04:01.310 Separate it in your head, you moron. And when they die, 0:04:01.790 --> 0:04:06.190 you didn't lose Chandler. Chandler never existed. He lost some 0:04:06.250 --> 0:04:10.310 drug addict actor who spent his whole life doing bad things. 0:04:10.410 --> 0:04:13.030 So why are you sad about it? It's weird that 0:04:13.050 --> 0:04:16.240 we do this with actors. I never saw a moment 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.300 of any show Patrick Stewart was in, but apparently he 0:04:20.339 --> 0:04:23.740 was an admirable character. So you're putting that on Patrick 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:24.800 Stewart like that's. 0:04:24.660 --> 0:04:25.060 Who he was. 0:04:25.570 --> 0:04:25.700 Mm hmm. 0:04:26.020 --> 0:04:26.219 Yeah. 0:04:26.260 --> 0:04:27.260 Or the guy from the X-Men. 0:04:27.300 --> 0:04:27.460 Right. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.380 Another layer of it grew up a miserable childhood son 0:04:32.540 --> 0:04:35.000 of an abusive drunk who had come home from the 0:04:35.050 --> 0:04:38.230 bars and beat up wife and or kids, depending on 0:04:38.270 --> 0:04:41.349 his mood, and sought refuge on the stage, et cetera, 0:04:41.470 --> 0:04:43.810 et cetera. So he turned out to be not a 0:04:43.830 --> 0:04:46.990 good husband or dad himself. I don't know. I just I. 0:04:47.380 --> 0:04:49.620 Don't idolize actors. They're good at their jobs. So is 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:50.460 your orthodontist. 0:04:50.700 --> 0:04:51.280 Or any celebrity. 0:04:51.300 --> 0:04:52.520 So is your school bus driver. 0:04:52.740 --> 0:04:55.100 Or any celebrity, because you don't know them most of 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.620 the time. Tiger Woods is a good example. The hole 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.690 portrayed him as the great father. There would be his 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.110 kids after he won the hole and everything like that 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.430 before you knew who Tiger Woods really was. I mean, 0:05:06.470 --> 0:05:08.790 you don't know these people. You have no idea. And 0:05:08.830 --> 0:05:10.370 some of them are the other way around. They become 0:05:10.790 --> 0:05:15.050 villains in the sports world, or the role they play 0:05:15.089 --> 0:05:17.110 in the most famous show is kind of a bad person. 0:05:17.370 --> 0:05:18.490 And they're fantastic. 0:05:19.050 --> 0:05:19.370 Right. 0:05:19.910 --> 0:05:24.210 Kind and generous. Yeah. Yeah. Speaking of questionable fathering, it 0:05:24.230 --> 0:05:27.710 was funny. We were joking before this segment. Jack suggested 0:05:27.730 --> 0:05:29.950 we could go from that into this other thing. And 0:05:29.990 --> 0:05:33.090 I said, well, that's a great fit. And he's like, 0:05:33.750 --> 0:05:35.930 what are you going to fit with Patrick Stewart? How 0:05:35.950 --> 0:05:40.800 about Elon Musk? Speaking of space exploration and the bad fathers. 0:05:41.540 --> 0:05:43.640 Actor was in a space show. Yes. 0:05:43.660 --> 0:05:47.260 Okay. Yeah, it's as good as I got. 0:05:47.580 --> 0:05:49.580 Take it or leave it. I love tons of stuff 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.760 Elon does in his room and everything like that. I 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.260 think the whole cranking out kids and not being there 0:05:54.300 --> 0:05:56.409 for them is just as awful as anything could be. 0:05:56.430 --> 0:05:59.950 Yeah, yeah, he's there for them financially. 0:06:00.310 --> 0:06:04.490 Neither one of these positions makes sense, though. To discount 0:06:04.850 --> 0:06:08.120 the professional stuff someone does because they're a bad father 0:06:08.420 --> 0:06:09.500 doesn't make any sense. 0:06:10.500 --> 0:06:10.920 Right. 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.140 To idolize them. 0:06:13.570 --> 0:06:16.099 Like that's all they are, though, as a human being 0:06:16.180 --> 0:06:18.320 without the fact that their personal lives are not what 0:06:18.380 --> 0:06:20.800 you like. Doesn't make any sense either. So I don't 0:06:20.820 --> 0:06:23.180 know where you land. I use the example. I'm a 0:06:23.339 --> 0:06:25.969 big fan of Christopher Hitchens thinking. Not all of it, 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:27.670 but a lot of it. And I've read so many 0:06:27.690 --> 0:06:29.950 of his books and listen to him argue all the time. 0:06:29.990 --> 0:06:31.970 And I almost got to meet him till he died. Oh, anyway. 0:06:32.310 --> 0:06:36.150 But anyway, I remember in his memoir talking about how 0:06:36.170 --> 0:06:38.170 he just had no he did. He didn't like raising 0:06:38.210 --> 0:06:40.020 his kids. He just it was just it took up 0:06:40.060 --> 0:06:41.320 all my time and I had no time for that. 0:06:41.339 --> 0:06:42.420 And I thought, you dick. 0:06:43.260 --> 0:06:43.500 Yeah. 0:06:43.779 --> 0:06:45.230 Your kids really would have liked it. 0:06:46.550 --> 0:06:46.810 Yeah. 0:06:46.900 --> 0:06:49.029 But you like to go sit and smoke cigarettes and 0:06:49.070 --> 0:06:52.530 drink wine and opine about things. But he was brilliant 0:06:52.550 --> 0:06:54.630 at opining. So where where do you I don't know. 0:06:54.730 --> 0:06:56.229 I don't know what you do with any of that information. 0:06:56.550 --> 0:06:59.880 Love the art, not the artist. Anyway, so here's an 0:06:59.940 --> 0:07:03.060 ironic story. Elon Musk. This is absolutely true. A group 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.020 of elementary school children, as many, many, many do, were 0:07:06.420 --> 0:07:10.310 touring the SpaceX facility in Florida. and were given a 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.420 tour that ended in the Starship production bay. The Starship, 0:07:13.460 --> 0:07:17.500 that's the largest rocket ever built, 400 feet tall, gleaming 0:07:17.540 --> 0:07:21.500 in stainless steel, surrounded by all the machines and the 0:07:21.540 --> 0:07:24.000 wires and stuff like that. Can you imagine that as 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:30.600 an elementary school kid? Just insane. And who should wander 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.020 up to the tour but Elon Musk himself? Not scheduled 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.580 to be there that day, but he decided to. And 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.120 an employee who was present described what happened next as 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.490 the most un-Elon moment they had ever witnessed. He got 0:07:43.530 --> 0:07:45.170 down on one knee with the little kids and he 0:07:45.210 --> 0:07:47.790 spoke to the children at their eye level. He answered 0:07:47.970 --> 0:07:51.810 every question they had. And interestingly, not with that kind 0:07:51.850 --> 0:07:56.800 of halting technical delivery he uses in press conferences, just 0:07:57.100 --> 0:08:01.240 simply and with patience talking to the kids in ways 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.420 they could understand. Seven-year-old asked him if the rocket was 0:08:04.460 --> 0:08:07.500 going to the moon. He said, no, Mars. The child asked, 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.360 what's on Mars? He said, nothing yet. That's why we're going. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.230 The child thought about this for several seconds and said, 0:08:13.350 --> 0:08:16.790 so we get to decide what's there? And Elon paused 0:08:16.850 --> 0:08:19.770 and said, he said, yes, you get to decide. And 0:08:19.810 --> 0:08:22.210 the employee said Elon's face during that exchange was the 0:08:22.310 --> 0:08:26.460 softest expression they had ever seen from him. Then another 0:08:26.500 --> 0:08:28.840 child asked if the rocket was scary. He said, the 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.840 rocket's not scary. Not trying is scary. And the kids, 0:08:32.860 --> 0:08:35.679 of course, didn't understand this, but Elon didn't simplify it further. 0:08:35.940 --> 0:08:38.420 He just let the answer sit and let them all 0:08:38.500 --> 0:08:41.020 look around and think about what he had just said. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:44.120 And it's the same answer he gives at Stanford and 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.450 at board meetings. He changed the vocabulary, but not the message. 0:08:47.970 --> 0:08:50.830 And the child received the same philosophy as the venture capitalists. 0:08:51.990 --> 0:08:56.590 Not trying is scary. The kids left with signed SpaceX patches, 0:08:56.650 --> 0:08:59.150 and Elon stayed in the production bay for 24 minutes 0:08:59.250 --> 0:09:01.270 after they left, just looking. 0:09:01.090 --> 0:09:01.849 At the rocket. 0:09:04.530 --> 0:09:10.520 He is an amazing, complicated, flawed, crazy, mercurial, super genius, 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:12.760 strange human being. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.059 Well, I think this topic is so interesting. So the 0:09:18.350 --> 0:09:25.330 judgment of his personal life is recent to history. You 0:09:25.370 --> 0:09:27.370 don't know what Newton was like to his wife and 0:09:27.429 --> 0:09:29.010 kids or Isaac Newton or. 0:09:30.110 --> 0:09:31.150 Ah, yeah. 0:09:31.350 --> 0:09:34.750 Throughout history, all the great men, it was usually men 0:09:34.770 --> 0:09:36.750 back in the day, but great men and women, you 0:09:36.770 --> 0:09:39.500 don't know how awful a mom, you know, pick whatever 0:09:39.580 --> 0:09:44.599 famous historical figure was. Galileo, terrible tipper. But in the 0:09:44.620 --> 0:09:47.260 modern world, you do. And then did we have it 0:09:47.300 --> 0:09:49.179 right the first time to judge them by their great 0:09:49.220 --> 0:09:52.540 works and the personal stuff is a personal stuff? And 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:59.070 then even without that, People that aren't cut out to 0:09:59.110 --> 0:10:02.750 be parents. do you just, is that a thing? Is 0:10:02.770 --> 0:10:04.610 there such thing as not cut out to be parents? 0:10:05.290 --> 0:10:07.980 Or are you just selfish and lazy and you don't 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.000 want to do the hard work? 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:11.880 I don't know. 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.339 I know I've had this conversation with a bunch of 0:10:14.380 --> 0:10:18.059 different people, particularly people who had bad moms or dads. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.990 I'm thinking of somebody I know who their mom like 0:10:21.020 --> 0:10:24.290 took off early and was never around. And man, her 0:10:24.350 --> 0:10:27.449 story did, did one of her mom took off, ran 0:10:27.490 --> 0:10:29.510 off with some guy, then did one of the worst 0:10:29.550 --> 0:10:32.870 things I can imagine doing as a parent called home 0:10:33.130 --> 0:10:36.230 to this particular woman when she was like 10 and 0:10:36.250 --> 0:10:38.030 really missing her mom and needing her mom called home 0:10:38.070 --> 0:10:42.190 and said, good news. Mom is coming back. And she 0:10:42.230 --> 0:10:46.600 got so excited. Mom's coming back. And they just never 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:47.300 heard from her again. 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.430 Oh my God. Wow. 0:10:50.510 --> 0:10:53.410 Can you imagine? But anyway, so the point being, that 0:10:53.550 --> 0:10:57.990 person doesn't have the mom gene. Is that a thing? 0:10:58.010 --> 0:11:03.729 Or are you just selfish? Just a selfish jerk? I 0:11:03.770 --> 0:11:06.470 don't know. I actually don't know. Maybe some people don't 0:11:06.530 --> 0:11:09.390 have that. Like, it's not, I don't decide, and I 0:11:09.429 --> 0:11:11.460 don't think you did either. I don't decide to pay 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.320 a lot of attention to my kids. I'm just driven 0:11:13.390 --> 0:11:13.780 to do it. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:14.540 Right. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.060 Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. I don't know. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.939 I hate to let people off the hook for not parenting, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.440 but maybe that's just not in their genetics. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.960 Yeah, but how do you, it reminds me of that question. 0:11:29.100 --> 0:11:31.040 Oh my God, there's a great piece in the free 0:11:31.090 --> 0:11:35.770 press recently about there are now other cases where women 0:11:35.809 --> 0:11:39.590 in particular are just so anxious to explain away women 0:11:39.630 --> 0:11:42.979 who murder their children in a way that is utterly, 0:11:43.220 --> 0:11:47.319 utterly incomprehensible to If it were a dude and these 0:11:47.380 --> 0:11:51.870 are not postpartum psychosis, this is just murdering their children. 0:11:51.890 --> 0:11:55.310 And and and she poses it and she brings up 0:11:55.370 --> 0:11:58.589 several specific cases of men who did the same for 0:11:59.050 --> 0:12:02.440 similar reasons or the same reasons as the murdering women did. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.939 But of course, they get zero sympathy. But in the 0:12:04.980 --> 0:12:07.840 modern world, the murdering moms get lots and lots of sympathy. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.119 In the same way that I think as a society, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.780 why don't we just go ahead and stick with, if 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.120 you kill your children, you never get out of jail. 0:12:16.900 --> 0:12:19.800 No matter what other circumstances may be at play. 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.240 I'm fine with extending that, too. And if you have kids, 0:12:22.300 --> 0:12:24.450 you have to raise them, whether you're digging it or not. 0:12:24.990 --> 0:12:29.130 Yeah, exactly. But they're intriguing questions, nonetheless. 0:12:32.370 --> 0:12:35.410 And the ending of that is Patrick Stewart is dead. 0:12:36.790 --> 0:12:39.870 How old was he? Was he old? Oh, okay. 0:12:39.950 --> 0:12:42.990 Yeah, beginnings of Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia. 0:12:43.850 --> 0:12:46.670 I actually saw, I never saw any of him doing anything, 0:12:46.710 --> 0:12:49.270 but I saw a clip this morning of him. Apparently 0:12:49.330 --> 0:12:51.850 he was a recurring character just a couple of episodes 0:12:51.929 --> 0:12:52.450 on Frasier. 0:12:52.970 --> 0:12:53.450 Fascinating. 0:12:53.490 --> 0:12:58.450 A flamboyant gay guy and very, very funny and really 0:12:58.470 --> 0:12:58.910 good at that. 0:12:59.390 --> 0:13:00.670 Yeah, I didn't even remember that. 0:13:01.730 --> 0:13:04.290 Yeah, it's pretty funny. I'll send you one of the 0:13:04.470 --> 0:13:06.790 clips that's making the rounds. That was a damn funny show. 0:13:07.010 --> 0:13:08.970 Let's talk about Frasier for half an hour. No, let's not. 0:13:09.710 --> 0:13:10.550 More on the way. Stay here. 0:13:12.030 --> 0:13:20.510 Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:23.940 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.770 All week, Trump has been targeting Michigan Democrat Abdul Al-Sayed. 0:13:30.050 --> 0:13:34.090 Trump has repeatedly tried to tie Al-Sayed to Islamic extremists, 0:13:34.550 --> 0:13:38.150 something the Democrat has vehemently denied. I asked Republican Mike 0:13:38.230 --> 0:13:41.130 Rogers if he believes the attacks have gone too far. 0:13:41.710 --> 0:13:44.770 Some of this rhetoric that's been used against him by 0:13:44.860 --> 0:13:47.120 people close to you, people advocating for you, that he 0:13:47.179 --> 0:13:49.440 is a terrorist, that he is a jihadist. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.700 Do you think this goes too far? I have never 0:13:51.780 --> 0:13:55.219 called him any of those things. And in a campaign, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.710 you should see the things that they're talking about us. 0:13:58.610 --> 0:14:02.349 How about, Jonathan Karl, the ad for El Sayed that 0:14:03.809 --> 0:14:06.780 suggests that the Jews are why eggs cost so much 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:07.820 and you don't have health care? 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:14.420 Not only that, but Jonathan... Saying that El-Sayed has vehemently 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:19.390 denied a connection to jihadists. No, he's barely denied it, 0:14:19.660 --> 0:14:23.790 then gotten vehement. And I realize I'm splitting hairs, but 0:14:23.810 --> 0:14:25.370 I think you know what I'm saying. 0:14:25.390 --> 0:14:27.690 Yeah, you're not splitting hairs. Those are very different things. 0:14:28.150 --> 0:14:35.010 Yeah, yeah. He barely denies it, then gets all blustery 0:14:35.070 --> 0:14:39.390 about how dare you ask me. A vehement denial would 0:14:39.410 --> 0:14:43.140 be a long statement of why he rejects fundamentalist Islam. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.000 So it is definitely an interesting topic of whether or 0:14:49.060 --> 0:14:51.720 not the Democratic Party is going to be run by 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:59.170 socialists and anti-Israel, the anti-Israel crowd or not, or it's 0:14:59.190 --> 0:15:01.810 going to be more mainstream going forward. But in terms 0:15:01.930 --> 0:15:04.450 of who takes the House or the Senate, I just 0:15:04.490 --> 0:15:09.610 don't get why That is that interesting to people. So 0:15:09.870 --> 0:15:13.970 the stats on that, 12, the House is going to 0:15:14.010 --> 0:15:16.950 go to the Democrats Tuesday, whether you like it or not. 0:15:17.370 --> 0:15:20.930 The Senate, nobody knows. But so that'll be 12 out 0:15:20.970 --> 0:15:25.720 of the last 14 national elections have changed the House 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:28.900 senator presidency. We don't hang on to the party in charge. 0:15:29.180 --> 0:15:33.260 We just don't. So it doesn't indicate anything. We just 0:15:33.340 --> 0:15:34.760 swing back and forth all the time. 0:15:35.370 --> 0:15:37.870 I'd say given the incompetence of the Democratic Party and 0:15:37.930 --> 0:15:40.910 how out there they are, it indicates how incompetent the 0:15:40.930 --> 0:15:43.230 Republicans are that they couldn't hold on, that they couldn't 0:15:43.290 --> 0:15:46.130 buck the trend. But in the big picture, I know. 0:15:46.450 --> 0:15:50.990 Only three times since the Civil War has the party 0:15:51.030 --> 0:15:54.400 in power not lost seats in the midterm. Only three 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.360 times since the Civil War. So it's it's supposed to happen. 0:15:57.740 --> 0:16:00.340 So getting all excited about and then reporting on and 0:16:00.380 --> 0:16:04.180 drawing conclusions over what's supposed to happen just seems weird 0:16:04.220 --> 0:16:08.370 to me. Now, if the Republicans ended up holding on 0:16:08.390 --> 0:16:11.230 to the House and gaining Senate seats, that would be 0:16:11.350 --> 0:16:13.330 what's not supposed to happen. It would really be an 0:16:13.370 --> 0:16:14.470 indication of something huge. 0:16:15.370 --> 0:16:16.820 I would agree. Yeah, but they blew it. 0:16:18.770 --> 0:16:24.030 The presidential race, which starts Tuesday night, that I think 0:16:24.470 --> 0:16:27.430 is going to be an indication of something on particularly 0:16:27.460 --> 0:16:32.200 with the Democrats. Are you going to go Bernie AOC 0:16:32.980 --> 0:16:36.160 or are you going to go? more mainstream Democrat. That's 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.239 a huge decision. I don't think they know either. I 0:16:39.300 --> 0:16:45.460 wonder what Chuck Schumer wants. The powerful Nancy Pelosi, if 0:16:45.500 --> 0:16:48.180 she still weighed in, she'd want mainstream, right? 0:16:48.540 --> 0:16:52.050 Yeah, they'd want moderate mainstream. Yeah, for sure. My question 0:16:52.110 --> 0:16:54.010 is kind of a similar question, but a couple of 0:16:54.050 --> 0:16:56.770 degrees off is, are we going to see any move 0:16:56.850 --> 0:16:59.490 by either of the parties? Probably not the Democrats because 0:16:59.630 --> 0:17:03.750 they're constantly mewling about democracy and even as their candidate 0:17:03.910 --> 0:17:07.050 in Alaska tries to undermine it. But are we going 0:17:07.070 --> 0:17:09.810 to see any move toward the parties taking more control 0:17:09.970 --> 0:17:13.109 of who is their candidate as opposed to just making 0:17:13.170 --> 0:17:17.100 it a populist mess at the midterms? Are they going 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.659 to have a platform and choose a candidate, or are 0:17:19.700 --> 0:17:21.820 they just going to let the masses decide and say, 0:17:21.859 --> 0:17:24.020 all right, Joe Smith believes this. I guess that's our 0:17:24.060 --> 0:17:25.260 platform this time around. 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:28.020 Since Citizens United, which I agreed with, I'm not sure 0:17:28.060 --> 0:17:30.880 you can with the raising small money on Twitter and everything. Man, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:31.960 it's a complicated thing. 0:17:34.770 --> 0:17:35.949 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:39.690 --> 0:17:41.530 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.380 When we lose, we usually get mercied, which is you 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.280 lose by more than 10 runs in a certain amount 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.440 of innings. Even though through those large defeats, everyone has 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.419 a blast on the team. We have a great time. 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.659 Some players who have never played baseball before, they get 0:17:56.700 --> 0:17:59.440 a chance to play. I'd never played before, so I 0:18:00.190 --> 0:18:01.830 knew I wasn't going to make the team based off 0:18:01.890 --> 0:18:05.190 my skills, but I just tried to hype everybody up, 0:18:05.210 --> 0:18:08.250 be enthusiastic, a vibes guy, you might say. 0:18:08.530 --> 0:18:10.190 It kind of sucks. I wish we won a game. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:13.040 But in that same breath, not winning a game kind 0:18:13.060 --> 0:18:15.540 of taught me how to deal with losing, and maybe 0:18:15.580 --> 0:18:18.380 that can be a lesson for a future moment. 0:18:18.420 --> 0:18:19.909 They sound so happy about it. 0:18:20.420 --> 0:18:23.419 That's a Nova Scotia high school that hasn't won a 0:18:23.530 --> 0:18:25.930 game in high school baseball team that hasn't won a 0:18:25.950 --> 0:18:28.990 game in six years, and they don't mind. They're losers, 0:18:29.070 --> 0:18:29.409 in other words. 0:18:29.770 --> 0:18:31.890 How is that possible? I mean, as a guy who's 0:18:32.170 --> 0:18:35.409 in the midst of following youth sports, you have classes 0:18:35.450 --> 0:18:37.209 where you have some good athletes and then you have 0:18:37.230 --> 0:18:39.419 a couple of good years. Then they graduate. Then you 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:40.879 might be bad for a couple of years. As a 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.340 high school football coach friend of mine says, you got 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.560 to have the Jims and the Joes. It's all I mean, 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.320 you can be whatever coach you want, but it's all 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.440 about the Jims and the Joes. You know, you have class. 0:18:50.460 --> 0:18:54.520 But so in six years with various people graduating and 0:18:54.580 --> 0:18:56.310 new classes coming up, they've never had. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.460 A couple of studs that could win a game? Not 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:02.840 only not a winning season, not a game, not a 0:19:02.859 --> 0:19:05.210 single game. What is it, like some island with 30 0:19:05.210 --> 0:19:07.350 people on it that they're all so busy fishing for 0:19:07.430 --> 0:19:09.270 lobsters that they can't play ball or what? 0:19:09.330 --> 0:19:11.730 I don't know. And the smaller the school, the more 0:19:11.990 --> 0:19:14.650 likely it seems to me you'd have one good player 0:19:14.910 --> 0:19:17.820 one of those years who dominates the other teams. I mean, 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:18.980 that's what I see usually. 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:21.100 But you can't dominate in baseball that way. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.940 You wouldn't have one pitcher that could win games come 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.020 through in six years? 0:19:26.780 --> 0:19:29.540 Yeah, if you had a really dominant pitcher and could 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.280 scrape one run across, I suppose it's possible, but it's 0:19:33.300 --> 0:19:33.760 a lot harder. 0:19:33.780 --> 0:19:35.740 Well, you know, at that age, though, the dominant pitcher 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:37.440 is usually the guy is also going to hit the 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:39.399 home run. It's the best athlete on the team. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.419 Yeah, yeah. Well, if you're outnumbered nine to one, you're 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:46.389 going to lose every game. Speaking, I'm calling an audible 0:19:46.430 --> 0:19:48.650 at the line, Michael, which is a poor metaphor since 0:19:48.670 --> 0:19:52.390 we're talking about baseball. Here is a Brewers fan, Dick Rice, 0:19:52.550 --> 0:19:57.060 well into his 80s, watching the Brew crew win, finally. 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:58.490 Oh, my God. 0:19:58.670 --> 0:19:59.260 Boomer! 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:00.520 Boomer! 0:20:00.540 --> 0:20:01.199 You got it! 0:20:08.650 --> 0:20:11.790 Oh, man! That's a wiggle! 0:20:12.430 --> 0:20:13.150