WEBVTT - The Wisecracking & Loyal Friend! 0:00:01.900 --> 0:00:05.740 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.780 --> 0:00:07.760 George Washington Broadcast Center. 0:00:07.830 --> 0:00:11.530 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:11.750 --> 0:00:17.270 And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:24.370 --> 0:00:27.950 The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, 0:00:28.230 --> 0:00:31.650 whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. 0:00:32.290 --> 0:00:34.530 It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based. 0:00:34.850 --> 0:00:37.229 If you can't find it within yourself to stand up 0:00:37.270 --> 0:00:39.220 and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve 0:00:39.229 --> 0:00:40.120 to wear that uniform. 0:00:40.260 --> 0:00:42.519 Why are you yelling at me? Strong stuff. 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.460 The great Patrick Stewart has passed idiotically the lead story 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.239 on ABC News last night. 0:00:48.860 --> 0:00:51.140 Good Lord. I will tell you this. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.610 I've been whipsawed back and forth on Patrick Stewart, and 0:00:53.630 --> 0:00:56.110 we don't usually talk about actors passing much. 0:00:57.350 --> 0:00:58.330 He's no Dolly Parton. 0:00:59.420 --> 0:01:01.300 Judy and I are big fans of Star Trek The 0:01:01.340 --> 0:01:03.960 Next Generation because we were very poor and we both 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.770 liked it and we could watch it together. And liked Picard, 0:01:08.170 --> 0:01:12.350 his character, partly because he was very wise and paternal 0:01:12.410 --> 0:01:14.149 to the crew and that sort of thing. Then I 0:01:14.190 --> 0:01:17.730 found out yesterday that the great Shakespearean actor, Patrick Stort, 0:01:18.510 --> 0:01:20.890 who only took that role because his friends all assured 0:01:20.930 --> 0:01:22.930 him it won't last. It'll last a year at most. 0:01:23.190 --> 0:01:25.190 Then you can get back to the stage. You'll have 0:01:25.209 --> 0:01:26.910 made some money. You'll get a tan in L.A. 0:01:27.209 --> 0:01:27.850 It'll be great. 0:01:28.170 --> 0:01:31.509 And it ended up lasting for seven years and spawning 0:01:31.550 --> 0:01:32.419 movies and the rest of it. 0:01:34.220 --> 0:01:37.100 But that he– what was I going to say? 0:01:37.580 --> 0:01:44.000 He had several marriages and two children, and he always 0:01:44.060 --> 0:01:47.020 put his work first before family, and he had no. 0:01:46.940 --> 0:01:48.420 Relationship with his children when he died. 0:01:49.330 --> 0:01:52.470 So I thought, you're a rotten human being, you're a 0:01:52.510 --> 0:01:55.700 great actor, but that sucks, and I can't think highly 0:01:55.740 --> 0:01:55.940 of you. 0:01:56.180 --> 0:01:59.100 Yeah, what we need to recognize... But, wait, there's more. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:03.260 Go ahead. Well, if there's more, I'll wait. Okay. 0:02:03.460 --> 0:02:06.900 But then I've seen various scenes with him, like with 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.310 Ricky Gervais, cracking each other up, cutting a scene together, 0:02:10.730 --> 0:02:14.450 and you have various stories he tells. 0:02:14.669 --> 0:02:15.910 Play 18 for us, Michael. 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.820 There was one night in a hotel somewhere, I had 0:02:19.940 --> 0:02:22.730 ordered room service, and I was flicking... And there was 0:02:23.030 --> 0:02:25.190 Star Trek Next Generation. I'll just watch it for a 0:02:25.210 --> 0:02:27.989 couple of minutes. Well, I got hooked. And then there 0:02:28.010 --> 0:02:30.110 was a ring of the doorbell, and my room service 0:02:30.169 --> 0:02:33.340 order arrived, and the waiter came in, looked at me... 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:38.080 LAUGHTER And I thought, he's going to go away and 0:02:38.139 --> 0:02:41.180 tell the entire kitchen it is the saddest thing I've ever. 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:50.700 This guy is upstairs alone having room service, watching himself. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:52.180 And so I just. 0:02:53.460 --> 0:02:57.360 There are some guys, I guess, who are not cut 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:58.919 out for family life. 0:02:59.740 --> 0:03:00.280 I don't know. 0:03:00.300 --> 0:03:01.920 I don't want to let them off the hook. And 0:03:01.940 --> 0:03:03.780 then what do we think of that? I know there's 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.000 lots of celebrities like that that I wonder about. When 0:03:06.030 --> 0:03:07.669 it comes to actors particularly, we. 0:03:12.990 --> 0:03:15.270 It's stupid that we do this, but everybody does it. 0:03:15.330 --> 0:03:18.269 It's hard not to do it. To not think they 0:03:18.550 --> 0:03:23.169 are the main character we know them as. And that's 0:03:23.210 --> 0:03:27.070 who they are. The best example being Matthew Perry dying. 0:03:27.270 --> 0:03:27.670 Chandler. 0:03:27.790 --> 0:03:31.290 Oh, Chandler died. We're all affected because Chandler died. We 0:03:31.330 --> 0:03:32.270 all like Chandler. 0:03:32.290 --> 0:03:34.549 The wise, cracking, and loyal friend. 0:03:34.940 --> 0:03:37.120 Matthew Perry was mostly a dick. He was a drug 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:37.820 addict dick. 0:03:38.580 --> 0:03:38.780 Yeah. 0:03:39.100 --> 0:03:39.720 Just was. 0:03:39.740 --> 0:03:43.540 I loved Chandler. You know, poor Chandler. He's just kind 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.410 of cute, kind of a nice guy, kind of bumbling, blah, blah, blah. 0:03:46.490 --> 0:03:47.210 Nice to his girlfriend. 0:03:47.970 --> 0:03:50.190 That's got nothing to do with the actual guy. 0:03:50.370 --> 0:03:51.230 Nothing. Nothing. 0:03:51.330 --> 0:03:54.150 Separate it in your head, you moron. And when they die, 0:03:54.350 --> 0:03:58.750 you didn't lose Chandler. Chandler never existed. He lost some 0:03:58.810 --> 0:04:02.870 drug addict actor who spent his whole life doing bad things. 0:04:02.970 --> 0:04:05.590 So why are you sad about it? It's weird that 0:04:05.610 --> 0:04:08.790 we do this with actors. I never saw a moment 0:04:08.990 --> 0:04:12.850 of any show Patrick Stewart was in, but apparently he 0:04:12.890 --> 0:04:16.290 was an admirable character. So you're putting that on Patrick 0:04:16.350 --> 0:04:17.570 Stewart like that's who he was. 0:04:18.570 --> 0:04:20.010 Yeah, or the guy from the X-Men, right. 0:04:20.950 --> 0:04:24.920 Another layer of it, grew up a miserable childhood, son 0:04:25.100 --> 0:04:27.560 of an abusive drunk who had come home from the 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.790 bars and beat up wife and or kids, depending on 0:04:30.830 --> 0:04:34.469 his mood, and sought refuge on the stage, etc., etc. 0:04:34.570 --> 0:04:36.989 So he turned out to be not a good husband 0:04:37.130 --> 0:04:38.890 or dad himself. I don't know. 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.049 I just... Don't idolize actors. 0:04:41.070 --> 0:04:43.349 They're good at their jobs, so is your orthodontist, so 0:04:43.450 --> 0:04:45.089 is your school bus driver. 0:04:45.290 --> 0:04:47.669 Or any celebrities, because you don't know them most of 0:04:47.690 --> 0:04:50.190 the time. Tiger Woods is a good example. The hole 0:04:50.250 --> 0:04:53.130 portrayed him as the great father, and there would be 0:04:53.150 --> 0:04:55.469 his kids after he won the hole and everything. 0:04:55.230 --> 0:04:57.830 Like that before you knew who Tiger Woods really was. 0:04:58.529 --> 0:05:00.950 I mean, you don't know these people. You have no idea. 0:05:01.250 --> 0:05:02.489 And some of them are the other way around. 0:05:02.529 --> 0:05:07.170 They become villains in the sports world, or the role 0:05:07.210 --> 0:05:09.090 they play in the most famous show is kind of 0:05:09.130 --> 0:05:09.670 a bad person. 0:05:09.930 --> 0:05:11.029 And they're fantastic. 0:05:11.589 --> 0:05:11.909 Right. 0:05:12.450 --> 0:05:14.000 Kind and generous. Yeah, yeah. 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:17.800 Speaking of questionable fathering, it was funny. We were joking 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:21.020 before this segment. Jack suggested we could go from that 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.580 into this other thing. And I said, well, that's a 0:05:23.660 --> 0:05:26.860 great fit. And he's like, what are you going to 0:05:26.900 --> 0:05:28.080 fit with Patrick Stewart? 0:05:28.370 --> 0:05:33.370 How about Elon Musk? Speaking of space exploration and bad fathers. 0:05:34.089 --> 0:05:36.190 Actor was in a space show. Yes. 0:05:36.230 --> 0:05:36.510 Okay. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.500 Yeah, it's as good as I got. Take it or 0:05:40.580 --> 0:05:42.800 leave it. I love tons of stuff Elon does in 0:05:42.820 --> 0:05:43.740 his room and everything like that. 0:05:44.220 --> 0:05:46.620 I think the whole cranking out kids and not being 0:05:46.660 --> 0:05:48.990 there for them is just as awful as anything could be. 0:05:50.150 --> 0:05:53.570 Yeah, he's there for them financially. Neither one of these 0:05:53.690 --> 0:05:55.250 positions makes sense, though. 0:05:56.150 --> 0:05:59.950 To discount the professional stuff someone does because they're a 0:05:59.950 --> 0:06:03.460 bad father doesn't make any sense. Right. 0:06:03.580 --> 0:06:04.700 To idolize them. 0:06:06.130 --> 0:06:08.630 Like, that's all they are, though, as a human being, 0:06:08.730 --> 0:06:10.510 without the fact that their personal lives are. 0:06:10.490 --> 0:06:11.469 Not what you like. 0:06:11.490 --> 0:06:13.450 It doesn't make any sense either, so I don't know 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.099 where you land. I use the example, I'm a big 0:06:16.180 --> 0:06:18.740 fan of Christopher Hitchens' thinking. Not all of it, but 0:06:18.779 --> 0:06:20.280 a lot of it. And I've read so many of 0:06:20.300 --> 0:06:22.480 his books and listened to him argue all the time, 0:06:22.540 --> 0:06:23.900 and I almost got to meet him until he died. 0:06:24.860 --> 0:06:28.700 But anyway, I remember in his memoir talking about how 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.160 he just had no, he didn't like raising his kids. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.160 It was just, it took up all my time, and 0:06:33.180 --> 0:06:34.960 I had no time for that. And I thought, you dick! 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:36.060 Yeah. 0:06:36.339 --> 0:06:37.779 Your kids really would have liked it. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:39.360 Yeah. 0:06:39.460 --> 0:06:41.580 But you like to go sit and smoke cigarettes and 0:06:41.620 --> 0:06:43.400 drink wine and opine about things. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.670 But he was brilliant at opining. So where do you, 0:06:46.890 --> 0:06:47.930 I don't know. I don't know what you do with 0:06:47.970 --> 0:06:48.770 any of that information. 0:06:49.110 --> 0:06:52.430 Love the art, not the artist. Anyway, so here's an 0:06:52.490 --> 0:06:55.620 ironic story. Elon Musk, this is absolutely true. A group 0:06:55.630 --> 0:06:58.580 of elementary school children, as many, many, many do, were 0:06:58.980 --> 0:07:01.600 touring the SpaceX facility in Florida. 0:07:01.620 --> 0:07:01.720 Yeah. 0:07:02.250 --> 0:07:04.560 And were given a tour that ended in the Starship 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.860 production bay. The Starship, that's the largest rocket ever built, 0:07:07.860 --> 0:07:12.420 400 feet tall, gleaming in stainless steel, surrounded by all 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.160 the machines and the wires and stuff like that. Can 0:07:15.180 --> 0:07:21.450 you imagine that as an elementary school kid? Just insane. 0:07:22.330 --> 0:07:24.290 And who should wander up to the tour but Elon 0:07:24.310 --> 0:07:27.190 Musk himself? Not scheduled to be there that day, but 0:07:27.210 --> 0:07:31.860 he decided to. And an employee who was present described 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.400 what happened next as the most un-Elon moment they had 0:07:34.540 --> 0:07:37.030 ever witnessed. He got down on one knee with the 0:07:37.070 --> 0:07:39.050 little kids and he spoke to the children at their 0:07:39.170 --> 0:07:43.430 eye level. He answered every question they had. And interestingly, 0:07:43.510 --> 0:07:47.090 not with that kind of halting technical delivery he uses 0:07:47.150 --> 0:07:52.760 in press conferences, just simply and with patience talking to 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.260 the kids in ways they could understand. Seven-year-old asked him 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.980 if the rocket was going to the moon. He said, no, Mars. 0:07:59.420 --> 0:08:01.980 The child asked, what's on Mars? He said, nothing yet. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.720 That's why we're going. The child thought about this for 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.739 several seconds and said, so we get to decide what's there? 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.920 And Elon paused and said, he said, yes, you get 0:08:10.940 --> 0:08:14.080 to decide. And the employee said Elon's face during that 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:17.600 exchange was the softest expression they had ever seen from him. 0:08:18.540 --> 0:08:21.190 Then another child asked if the rocket was scary. He said, 0:08:21.290 --> 0:08:25.410 the rocket's not scary. Not trying is scary. And the kids, 0:08:25.430 --> 0:08:28.250 of course, didn't understand this. But Elon didn't simplify it further. 0:08:28.510 --> 0:08:30.990 He just let the answer sit and let them all 0:08:31.070 --> 0:08:33.550 look around and think about what he had just said. 0:08:34.340 --> 0:08:36.680 And it's the same answer he gives at Stanford and 0:08:36.710 --> 0:08:40.010 at board meetings. He changed the vocabulary, but not the message. 0:08:40.530 --> 0:08:43.370 And the child received the same philosophy as the venture capitalists. 0:08:44.530 --> 0:08:49.150 Not trying is scary. The kids left with signed SpaceX patches, 0:08:49.220 --> 0:08:51.720 and Elon stayed in the production bay for 24 minutes 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:53.080 after they left, just. 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:54.460 Looking at the rocket. 0:08:57.059 --> 0:09:03.170 He is an amazing, complicated, flawed, crazy, mercurial, super genius guy. 0:09:04.300 --> 0:09:08.800 Strange human being. Well, I think this topic is so interesting. 0:09:08.900 --> 0:09:15.040 So the judgment of his personal life is recent to history. 0:09:17.770 --> 0:09:19.750 You don't know what Newton was like to his wife 0:09:19.809 --> 0:09:21.550 and kids, Isaac Newton, or. 0:09:22.670 --> 0:09:23.910 Ah, yeah. 0:09:23.929 --> 0:09:27.309 Throughout history, all the great men, it was usually men 0:09:27.330 --> 0:09:29.310 back in the day, but great men and women, you 0:09:29.330 --> 0:09:31.850 don't know how awful a mom, you know, pick. 0:09:31.710 --> 0:09:33.610 Whatever famous historical figure was. 0:09:33.630 --> 0:09:37.959 Galileo, terrible tipper. But in the modern world, you do. 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.599 And then did we have it right the first time 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.300 to judge them by their great works and the personal 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.040 stuff is a personal stuff? And then even without that, 0:09:50.380 --> 0:09:53.959 People that aren't cut out to be parents, do you just. 0:09:54.500 --> 0:09:56.329 Is that a thing? Is there such thing as not 0:09:56.370 --> 0:09:59.070 cut out to be parents? Or are you just selfish 0:09:59.230 --> 0:10:01.550 and lazy... and you don't want to do the hard work? 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:04.460 I don't know. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:06.920 I know I've had this conversation with a bunch of 0:10:06.940 --> 0:10:10.620 different people, particularly people who had bad moms or dads. 0:10:10.940 --> 0:10:13.559 I'm thinking to somebody I know who their mom like 0:10:13.620 --> 0:10:17.300 took off early and was never around. And man, Her story, 0:10:18.420 --> 0:10:21.380 her mom took off, ran off with some guy, then 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:23.320 did one of the worst things I can imagine doing 0:10:23.380 --> 0:10:27.360 as a parent. Called home to this particular woman when 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.740 she was like 10 and really missing her mom and 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.520 needing her mom. Called home and said, good news, mom 0:10:32.590 --> 0:10:37.610 is coming back. And she got so excited. Mom's coming back. 0:10:38.510 --> 0:10:39.870 And they just never heard from her again. 0:10:40.570 --> 0:10:41.270 Oh, my God. 0:10:42.670 --> 0:10:42.990 Wow. 0:10:43.070 --> 0:10:43.449 Can you imagine? 0:10:43.630 --> 0:10:47.490 But anyway, so the point being, that person doesn't have 0:10:47.590 --> 0:10:48.580 the mom gene. 0:10:49.620 --> 0:10:52.559 Is that a thing? Or are you just selfish? Just 0:10:52.620 --> 0:10:56.939 a selfish jerk? I don't know. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.720 I actually don't know. Maybe some people don't have that. Like, 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.470 it's not, I don't decide, and I don't think you 0:11:02.490 --> 0:11:04.309 did either. I don't decide to pay a lot of 0:11:04.330 --> 0:11:04.929 attention to my kids. 0:11:04.990 --> 0:11:07.970 I'm just driven to do it. Right. Yeah, I would agree. 0:11:07.990 --> 0:11:08.890 I would agree. 0:11:09.309 --> 0:11:09.630 I don't know. 0:11:11.530 --> 0:11:14.510 I hate to let people off the hook for not parenting, 0:11:14.570 --> 0:11:17.010 but maybe that's just not in their genetics. 0:11:17.730 --> 0:11:21.540 Yeah, but how do you... It reminds me of that question. 0:11:21.700 --> 0:11:23.620 Oh, my God, there's a great piece in the Free 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:28.339 Press recently about there are now other cases where women 0:11:28.380 --> 0:11:32.160 in particular are just so anxious to explain away women 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.530 who murder their children in a way that is utterly, 0:11:35.790 --> 0:11:39.900 utterly incomprehensible to... If it were a dude and these 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:45.559 are not postpartum psychosis, this is just murdering their children. And, and, 0:11:45.700 --> 0:11:48.859 and she poses it and she brings up several specific 0:11:48.900 --> 0:11:52.420 cases of men who did the same for similar reasons 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.410 or the same reasons as the murdering women did. But 0:11:55.450 --> 0:11:58.050 of course they get zero sympathy. But in the modern world, 0:11:58.090 --> 0:12:01.500 the murdering moms get lots and lots of sympathy. In 0:12:01.510 --> 0:12:03.939 the same way that I think as a society, why 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.520 don't we just go ahead and stick with, if you 0:12:06.540 --> 0:12:09.560 kill your children, you never get out of jail. No 0:12:09.580 --> 0:12:12.360 matter what other circumstances may be at play. 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.820 I'm fine with extending that, too. And if you have kids, 0:12:14.860 --> 0:12:17.020 you have to raise them, whether you're digging it or not. 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.699 Yeah, exactly. But they're intriguing questions, nonetheless. 0:12:24.940 --> 0:12:27.939 And the ending of that is Patrick Stewart is dead. 0:12:29.350 --> 0:12:32.949 How old was he? Was he 86? Oh, okay. Yeah, 0:12:32.970 --> 0:12:35.569 beginnings of Alzheimer's and Lewy body dementia. 0:12:36.410 --> 0:12:39.250 I actually saw, I never saw any of him doing anything, 0:12:39.270 --> 0:12:41.860 but I saw a clip this morning of him. Apparently 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.439 he was a recurring character, just a couple of episodes 0:12:44.500 --> 0:12:45.040 on Frasier. 0:12:45.540 --> 0:12:46.040 Fascinating. 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:51.020 A flamboyant gay guy and very, very funny and really 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:51.480 good at that. 0:12:51.540 --> 0:12:53.280 Yeah, I didn't even remember that. 0:12:53.300 --> 0:12:56.870 Yeah, it's pretty funny. I'll send you one of the 0:12:57.050 --> 0:12:59.370 clips that's making the rounds. That was a damn funny show. 0:12:59.570 --> 0:13:00.790 Let's talk about Frasier for half an hour. 0:13:01.130 --> 0:13:05.160 No, let's not. More on the way. Stay here. Armstrong 0:13:05.300 --> 0:13:05.680 and Getty. 0:13:08.510 --> 0:13:12.390 All week, Trump has been targeting Michigan Democrat Abdul Al-Sayed. 0:13:12.690 --> 0:13:16.710 Trump has repeatedly tried to tie Al-Sayed to Islamic extremists, 0:13:17.150 --> 0:13:20.770 something the Democrat has vehemently denied. I asked Republican Mike 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.760 Rogers if he believes the attacks have gone too far. 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.400 Some of this rhetoric that's been used against him. by 0:13:27.460 --> 0:13:29.699 people close to you, people advocating for you, that he 0:13:29.780 --> 0:13:32.040 is a terrorist, that he is a jihadist. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.300 Do you think this goes too far? I have never 0:13:34.380 --> 0:13:36.000 called him any of those things. 0:13:36.940 --> 0:13:39.190 And in a campaign, you should see the things that 0:13:39.210 --> 0:13:40.310 they're talking about us. 0:13:41.230 --> 0:13:44.990 How about, Jonathan Karl, the ad for El Sayed that 0:13:46.429 --> 0:13:49.390 suggests that the Jews are why eggs cost so much 0:13:49.429 --> 0:13:50.370 and you don't have health care? 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:57.020 Not only that, but Jonathan, saying that El-Sayed has vehemently 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:02.000 denied a connection to Johannes. No, he's barely denied it, 0:14:02.260 --> 0:14:06.410 then gotten vehement. And I realize I'm splitting hairs, but 0:14:06.429 --> 0:14:07.990 I think you know what I'm saying. 0:14:08.010 --> 0:14:10.290 Yeah, you're not splitting hairs. Those are very different things. 0:14:10.770 --> 0:14:12.310 Yeah, yeah. 0:14:14.110 --> 0:14:18.210 He barely denies it, then gets all blustery about how 0:14:18.290 --> 0:14:22.200 dare you ask me. A vehement denial would be a 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:25.760 long statement of why he rejects fundamentalist Islam. 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.620 So it is definitely an interesting topic of whether or 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.350 not the Democratic Party is going to be run by 0:14:35.330 --> 0:14:41.790 socialists and anti-Israel, the anti-Israel crowd or not, or it's 0:14:41.810 --> 0:14:44.430 going to be more mainstream going forward. But in terms 0:14:44.550 --> 0:14:47.080 of who takes the House or the Senate, I just 0:14:47.100 --> 0:14:52.210 don't get why That is that interesting to people. So 0:14:52.470 --> 0:14:56.590 the stats on that, 12, the House is going to 0:14:56.610 --> 0:14:59.570 go to the Democrats Tuesday, whether you like it or not. 0:14:59.970 --> 0:15:03.550 The Senate, nobody knows. But so that'll be 12 out 0:15:03.590 --> 0:15:08.320 of the last 14 national elections have changed the House 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.520 senator presidency. We don't hang on to the party in charge. 0:15:11.780 --> 0:15:15.880 We just don't. So it doesn't indicate anything. We just 0:15:15.940 --> 0:15:17.359 swing back and forth all the time. 0:15:17.970 --> 0:15:20.470 I'd say given the incompetence of the Democratic Party and 0:15:20.530 --> 0:15:23.510 how out there they are, it indicates how incompetent the 0:15:23.550 --> 0:15:25.850 Republicans are that they couldn't hold on, that they couldn't 0:15:25.890 --> 0:15:28.730 buck the trend. But no, in the big picture, I know. 0:15:29.070 --> 0:15:33.600 Only three times since the Civil War has the party 0:15:33.630 --> 0:15:36.320 in power not lost seats in the midterm. 0:15:36.500 --> 0:15:38.760 Only three times since the Civil War. So it's it's 0:15:38.820 --> 0:15:39.980 supposed to happen. 0:15:40.340 --> 0:15:42.960 So getting all excited about and then reporting on and 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.780 drawing conclusions over what's supposed to happen just seems weird 0:15:46.820 --> 0:15:51.050 to me. Now, if the Republicans ended up holding onto 0:15:51.090 --> 0:15:54.190 the House and gaining Senate seats, that would be what's 0:15:54.370 --> 0:15:56.390 not supposed to happen. It would really be an indication 0:15:56.410 --> 0:15:57.090 of something huge. 0:15:57.970 --> 0:16:03.050 I would agree. Yeah, but they blew it. The presidential race, 0:16:03.250 --> 0:16:07.390 which starts Tuesday night, that, I think, is going to 0:16:07.410 --> 0:16:10.810 be an indication of something, particularly with the Democrats. 0:16:11.750 --> 0:16:15.860 Are you going to go Bernie AOC? Or are you 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.540 going to go More mainstream Democrat. That's a huge decision. 0:16:19.580 --> 0:16:24.200 I don't think they know either. Wonder what Chuck Schumer wants. 0:16:26.490 --> 0:16:29.850 The powerful Nancy Pelosi, if she's still weighed in, she'd 0:16:29.890 --> 0:16:30.770 want mainstream, right? 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.720 Yeah, they'd want moderate mainstream, yeah, for sure. 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.300 My question is kind of a similar question, but a 0:16:36.340 --> 0:16:38.540 couple of degrees off, is are we going to see 0:16:38.660 --> 0:16:41.700 any move by either of the parties, probably not the Democrats, 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:46.340 because they're constantly mewling about democracy, even as their candidate 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.660 in Alaska tries to undermine it. But are we going 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.420 to see any move toward the parties taking more control 0:16:52.580 --> 0:16:55.750 of who is their candidate, as opposed to just making 0:16:55.780 --> 0:16:59.690 it a populist mess at the midterms? Are they going 0:16:59.730 --> 0:17:02.250 to have a platform and choose a candidate? Or are 0:17:02.290 --> 0:17:04.420 they just going to let the masses decide and say, 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:05.880 all right, Joe Smith believes this. 0:17:05.940 --> 0:17:07.879 I guess that's our platform this time around. 0:17:07.980 --> 0:17:10.620 Since Citizens United, which I agreed with, I'm not sure 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.480 you can with the raising small money on Twitter and everything. Man, 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:14.600 it's a complicated thing. 0:17:17.380 --> 0:17:18.560 Armstrong and Getty. 0:17:19.900 --> 0:17:23.209 When we lose, we usually get mercy, which is. You 0:17:23.230 --> 0:17:25.150 lose by more than 10 runs in a certain amount 0:17:25.170 --> 0:17:29.300 of innings. Even though through those large defeats, everyone has 0:17:29.340 --> 0:17:31.280 a blast on the team. We have a great time. 0:17:31.460 --> 0:17:33.550 Some players who have never played baseball before, they get 0:17:33.570 --> 0:17:34.310 a chance to play. 0:17:34.710 --> 0:17:35.629 I'd never played. 0:17:35.390 --> 0:17:37.919 Before, so I knew I wasn't going to make the 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.400 team based off my skills, but I just tried to 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:45.080 hype everybody up, be enthusiastic, a vibes guy, you might say. 0:17:45.100 --> 0:17:46.139 It kind of sucks. 0:17:46.220 --> 0:17:48.570 I wish we won a game, but in that same breath, 0:17:48.869 --> 0:17:50.790 not winning a game kind of taught me how to 0:17:50.910 --> 0:17:53.830 deal with losing, and maybe that can be a lesson 0:17:53.850 --> 0:17:55.250 for a future moment. 0:17:55.290 --> 0:17:56.710 They sound so happy about it. 0:17:57.280 --> 0:18:00.280 That's a Nova Scotia high school that hasn't won a 0:18:00.380 --> 0:18:02.780 game in high school baseball team that hasn't won a 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:04.760 game in six years, and they don't mind. 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.100 They're losers, in other words. How is that possible? I mean, 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.740 as a guy who's in the midst of following youth sports, 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.750 you have classes where you have some good athletes, and 0:18:13.770 --> 0:18:15.970 then you have a couple of good years. Then they graduate. 0:18:16.050 --> 0:18:17.430 Then you might be bad for a couple of years. 0:18:17.490 --> 0:18:19.930 As a high school football coach friend of mine says, 0:18:19.950 --> 0:18:22.429 you got to have the Jims and the Joes. I mean, 0:18:22.450 --> 0:18:24.189 you can be whatever coach you want, but it's all 0:18:24.230 --> 0:18:25.210 about the Jims and the Joes. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.780 You know, you have class. But so in six years 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:32.760 with various people graduating and new classes coming up, they've 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:33.180 never had. 0:18:34.900 --> 0:18:37.330 A couple of studs that could win a game? Not 0:18:37.380 --> 0:18:39.710 only not a winning season, not a game, not a 0:18:39.730 --> 0:18:42.090 single game. What is it, like some island with 30 0:18:42.090 --> 0:18:44.209 people on it that they're all so busy fishing for 0:18:44.290 --> 0:18:46.150 lobsters that they can't play ball or what? 0:18:46.190 --> 0:18:46.630 I don't know. 0:18:46.710 --> 0:18:49.680 And the smaller the school, the more likely it seems 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:53.000 to me you'd have one good player one of those years. 0:18:53.060 --> 0:18:55.080 Who dominates the other teams. I mean, that's what I 0:18:55.140 --> 0:18:57.960 see usually. But you can't dominate baseball that way. 0:18:58.580 --> 0:19:01.810 You wouldn't have one pitcher that could win games come 0:19:01.869 --> 0:19:02.889 through in six years? 0:19:03.650 --> 0:19:06.410 Yeah, if you had a really dominant pitcher and could 0:19:06.510 --> 0:19:10.149 scrape one run across, I suppose it's possible, but it's 0:19:10.170 --> 0:19:10.630 a lot harder. 0:19:10.650 --> 0:19:12.609 Well, you know, at that age, though, the dominant pitcher 0:19:12.650 --> 0:19:14.310 is usually the guy who's also going to hit the 0:19:14.350 --> 0:19:14.760 home run. 0:19:14.820 --> 0:19:17.700 It's the best athlete on the team. Yeah, yeah. 0:19:17.740 --> 0:19:21.899 Well, if you're outnumbered 9-1, you're going to lose every game. Speaking, 0:19:22.260 --> 0:19:24.439 I'm calling an audible at the line, Michael, which is 0:19:24.500 --> 0:19:27.370 a poor metaphor since we're talking about baseball players Here 0:19:27.430 --> 0:19:30.830 is a Brewers fan, Dick Rice, well into his 80s, 0:19:30.980 --> 0:19:33.920 watching the Brew crew win, finally. 0:19:33.940 --> 0:19:37.359 Oh, my God. 0:19:37.500 --> 0:19:38.379 Oh, my God. 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:44.050 You got it. 0:19:45.570 --> 0:19:48.649